Question: Being a conserved quantity means that the value of mass doesn't ever change as long as it's in what kind of system?
Answer: closed

Question: Special relativity says matter can disappear by conversion into what state?
Answer: energy

Question: What planet isn't a closed system but sometimes appears to be because of the approximate conservation of matter?
Answer: Earth

Question: What term does science not have a universally-accepted scientific definition for?
Answer: matter

Question: Sometimes scientific terms were historically considered in ways we know now aren't compatible because scientists didn't need to distinguish matter from what other term?
Answer: mass

Question: What word do physicists sometimes consider to be defined as particles exhibiting rest mass?
Answer: matter

Question: What duality describes the conflicting properties of matter in the fields of chemistry and physics?
Answer: wave–particle duality

Question: Quarks and leptons are sometimes considered matter because they can't travel at what speed?
Answer: the speed of light

Question: What was Westminster Abbey's original name?
Answer: Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster

Question: What style architecture is the Westminster Abbey considered?
Answer: Gothic

Question: In what city is Westminster Abbey located?
Answer: City of Westminster, London

Question: In what years was the Abbey considered a cathedral?
Answer: Between 1540 and 1556

Question: What type of building is the Abbey now considered?
Answer: Royal Peculiar

Question: What is the formal name of Westminster Abbey?
Answer: the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster

Question: Where is Westminster Abbey located?
Answer: City of Westminster, London

Question: When was Westminster Abbey a cathedral?
Answer: Between 1540 and 1556

Question: What has been the status of Westminster Abbey since 1560?
Answer: Church of England "Royal Peculiar"

Question: What year did the construction of the church begin?
Answer: 1245

Question: Who commissioned the Abbey to be built?
Answer: King Henry III

Question: What was the area previously named?
Answer: Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)

Question: In what century was the church established at the location?
Answer: 7th century

Question: Who was the Bishop in this time frame?
Answer: Mellitus, a Bishop of London

Question: What is the meaning of Thorn Ey?
Answer: Thorn Island

Question: When was a church first founded at the site?
Answer: 7th century

Question: Who was Mellitus?
Answer: a Bishop of London

Question: When was construction of the present church started?
Answer: 1245

Question: Who ordered the construction of the church?
Answer: King Henry III

Question: What was the name of the fisherman in lore that saw a vision of Saint Peter near the Abbey?
Answer: Aldrich

Question: What type of fish did the Abbey receive from Thames fisherman?
Answer: salmon

Question: What kind of monks lived at the Abbey?
Answer: Benedictine

Question: Who, till this day still gives the Abbey a fish?
Answer: Fishmonger's Company

Question: Who along with the King Edgar established the monks at the Abbey?
Answer: Saint Dunstan

Question: Who supposedly had a vison of Saint Peter on the River Thames?
Answer: Aldrich

Question: Who first gifted salmon to the abbey?
Answer: Thames fishermen

Question: Who still gives salmon to the abbey today?
Answer: Fishmonger's Company

Question: When was the monk community installed?
Answer: 960s or early 970s

Question: What architectural design was St Peter's abbey considered?
Answer: Romanesque style

Question: What year was the building finished?
Answer: 1090

Question: What was the date of the Abbey's coronation? 
Answer: 28 December 1065

Question: Who was the first recorded coronation at the Abbey?
Answer: William the Conqueror

Question: What King restored the Abbey in the years 1042 and 1052?
Answer: King Edward the Confessor

Question: Who rebuilt the abbey for a burial church?
Answer: King Edward the Confessor

Question: What style was the church rebuilt in?
Answer: Romanesque

Question: When was the building consecrated?
Answer: 28 December 1065

Question: When did King Edward the Confessor die?
Answer: 5 January 1066

Question: Who was the first documented coronation?
Answer: William the Conqueror

Question: Who were the first monarchs crowned at Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror

Question: Since when have coronations been held at Westminster Abbey?
Answer: 1066

Question: How many royal weddings have occurred at the abbey?
Answer: 16

Question: Which two reigning monarchs had weddings at the abbey?
Answer: Henry I and Richard II

Question: When did royal weddings begin at the church?
Answer: 1100

Question: Where is the only existant depiction of Edward's abbey?
Answer: Bayeux Tapestry

Question: What was the original size of Dunstan's original monk community?
Answer: a dozen

Question: How was the community able to increase?
Answer: endowments

Question: What is adjacent the abbey?
Answer: Palace of Westminster

Question: Who became a powerful force after the Norman Conquest?
Answer: The abbot and monks

Question: The Palace of Westminster was the seat of what from the later 12th century?
Answer: government

Question: Who was employed on royal service?
Answer: The abbot

Question: With what kind of life were the Benedictines allowed to identify?
Answer: secular

Question: To what movement was the task of spiritual leadership passed?
Answer: Cluniac

Question: What did the abbot remain as a town built around the abbey?
Answer: Lord of the Manor of Westminster

Question: What did the monastery help fuel?
Answer: the town economy

Question: What did the abbey build on the west side?
Answer: shops and dwellings

Question: What encroached upon the sanctuary?
Answer: shops and dwellings

Question: What was the abbey to Norman kings?
Answer: coronation site

Question: What architect continued work on the abbey?
Answer: Henry Yevele

Question: Who was reigning when Henry Yevele finished his work on the abbey?
Answer: Richard II

Question: What kind of pavement was commissioned for in front of the High Altar?
Answer: Cosmati

Question: What played a large role in King Edward the Confessor's canonisation?
Answer: The Confessor's shrine

Question: Who added a Perpendicular style chapel?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: Who was the Perpendicular style chapel dedicated to?
Answer: Blessed Virgin Mary

Question: What part of France did the Caen stone come from?
Answer: Caen

Question: Where did the Portland stone come from?
Answer: Isle of Portland

Question: When was the Lady Chapel added?
Answer: 1503

Question: When was the abbey's annual income £2400–2800?
Answer: 1535

Question: What was the abbey's annual income as of 2016?
Answer: £1,310,000 to £1,530,000

Question: To which other abbey was Westminster Abbey second in wealth?
Answer: Glastonbury Abbey

Question: During what was the abbey made second in wealth?
Answer: the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Question: When did Henry VIII take direct royal control?
Answer: 1539

Question: Who gave the abbey status of a cathedral in 1540?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: What did the cathedral status save the abbey from?
Answer: destruction

Question: What did changing the status of the abbey create?
Answer: the Diocese of Westminster

Question: When was Westminster Diocese dissolved?
Answer: 1550

Question: The abbey was recognised as what until 1556?
Answer: a second cathedral of the Diocese of London

Question: Who is the abbey dedicated to?
Answer: Saint Peter

Question: The abbey was regiven to the Benedictines under whom?
Answer: Mary I of England

Question: Who ejected the Benedictines again in 1559?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: What was the new name of the abbey when Elizabeth I reestablished it?
Answer: Collegiate Church of St Peter

Question: Who was made the first dean of the new church?
Answer: The last of Mary's abbots