Question: In addition to wool, what is uranium salt a mordant of?
Answer: silk

Question: Of what nationality was Perrin?
Answer: French

Question: In what county was the Oklo mine located?
Answer: Gabon

Question: How old are the ore deposits in the Oklo mine?
Answer: 1.7 billion years

Question: When the Oklo mine ore deposits came into being, what percentage of uranium on Earth consisted of uranium-235?
Answer: 3%

Question: Where in the United States is there a nuclear waste repository?
Answer: Yucca Mountain

Question: How many times more abundant than silver is uranium in the Earth's crust?
Answer: 40

Question: How many kilograms of uranium may be contained in the oceans?
Answer: 1013

Question: Why is the concentrate of uranium in farmland so high?
Answer: phosphate fertilizers

Question: What is the concentration of uranium in sea water?
Answer: 3 parts per billion

Question: What isotope of uranium has the most stability?
Answer: Uranium-238

Question: About how old is the Earth?
Answer: 4.468×109 years

Question: What is the half-life of uranium-234?
Answer: 2.48×105 years

Question: What fraction of the Earth's uranium was uranium-235 during the Earth's youth?
Answer: one-fifth

Question: What percentage of the alpha rays of natural uranium are emitted by 234U?
Answer: 49%

Question: What happens to a majority of ingested uranium?
Answer: excreted

Question: Up to what percentage of uranyl ion can be absorbed when ingested?
Answer: 5%

Question: About what percentage of uranium oxide is absorbed when ingested?
Answer: 0.5%

Question: What does uranium have an affinity for?
Answer: phosphates

Question: Where does uranium accumulate in the body?
Answer: bone tissue

Question: How were the appointments to the Order of the British Empire made?
Answer: nomination of the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, the Viceroy of India, and the colonial governors

Question: What remained the head of state of the British Empire?
Answer: the monarch

Question: What evolved as the Commonwealth nominations continued?
Answer: Empire

Question: Why did the oversea nominations discontinue?
Answer: established their own Orders

Question: What countries established new orders?
Answer: Order of Australia, the Order of Canada, and the New Zealand Order of Merit

Question: Who could wear a emblem of two crossed silver oak leaves?
Answer: Any individual made a member of the Order for gallantry

Question: What year was it replaced?
Answer: 1974

Question: What was the emblem?
Answer: two crossed silver oak leaves on the same riband, ribbon or bow as the badge

Question: What kind of medal was replaced in 1974?
Answer: Queen's Gallantry Medal

Question: They continued to wear what the insignia of what?
Answer: lower grade with the oak leaves

Question: Who are appointed to citizens of nations?
Answer: Honorary knighthoods

Question: Where was Queen Elizabeth ll not Head of State?
Answer: citizens of nations

Question: What is honorary appointees are incorrectly referred to?
Answer: Sir or Dame

Question: Who are examples of Sir of Dame?
Answer: Bill Gates or Bob Geldof

Question: What is an example of irish broadcaster?
Answer: Terry Wogan

Question: Who are the six officials of The Order?
Answer: Prelate; the Dean; the Secretary; the Registrar; the King of Arms; and the Usher

Question: Who was The Dean of St. Paul?
Answer: ex officio the Dean of the Order

Question: Who serves as the Order's Prelate?
Answer: The Bishop of London, a senior bishop in the Church of England

Question: Who is not a member of the College of Arms?
Answer: The Order's King of Arms

Question: What is the Usher of the Order?
Answer: Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod

Question: Who was discontinued in the Commonwealth realms?
Answer: Appointments to the Order of the British Empire

Question: Who established a national system of honours and awards?
Answer: Order of Australia, the Order of Canada, and the New Zealand Order of Merit

Question: How were the different levels of award and honour reflected the imperial system?
Answer: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Question: What were the highest class?
Answer: Knights and Dames

Question: Who were MBE'S?
Answer: The members of The Beatles

Question: In what year was the Beatles made MBE's?
Answer: 1965

Question: Who compared military membership in the Order?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: Who said "lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received thris for heroism in the war.
Answer: John Lennon

Question: When did John Lennon return his MBE insignia?
Answer: 25 November 1969

Question: Who was the most excellent Order of the British Empire?
Answer: order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy

Question: When was the order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy established?
Answer: 4 June 1917

Question: Who rewarded contributions to the arts and sciences?
Answer: "order of chivalry of British constitutional monarchy

Question: Who established the chivalry of british constiutional monarchy?
Answer: King George V

Question: Who is the recipient?
Answer: knight if male, or dame if female

Question: What was instituted to serve as a lower award granting recipients affiliation?
Answer: Medal of the Order of the British Empire

Question: What was the medal renamed as?
Answer: British Empire Medal

Question: In what year was the Medal of the Order of the British Empire established?
Answer: 1922

Question: When was it stopped being rewarded?
Answer: 1993

Question: How many BEM's were awarded for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee?
Answer: 293

Question: From what year could the Sovereign appoint a person as Commander, Officer or Member of the Order of the British Empire?
Answer: 1940

Question: Of what acts did the Members of the Order of the British Empire appoint?
Answer: below the level required for the George Medal

Question: When was the awards designated the Order of the British Empire for Gallantry?
Answer: 14 January 1958

Question: What grade was determined?
Answer: same criteria as usual, and not by the level of gallantry

Question: Who would prefix Sir, and Dames Grand Cross?
Answer: Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commander

Question: Who would prefix Dame, to their forenames?
Answer: Dames Grand Cross

Question: Who would prefix Lady to their surnames?
Answer: Wives of Knights

Question: Such forms are not used by whom?
Answer: peers and princes

Question: Who wouldn't use the title Sir of Dame?
Answer: Clergy of the Church of England or the Church of Scotland

Question: Who has set honours awarded by the President of India?
Answer: India

Question: What is referred to as the Padma Awards?
Answer: President of India who holds a republican position some consider similar to that of the monarch in Britain

Question: Who holds a republican position some consider to monarch of Britain?
Answer: President of India

Question: What does the Padma Awards consist of?
Answer: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri

Question: What does not carry any decoration or insignia that can be worn on the person?
Answer: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri

Question: How many Knights are in The Order?
Answer: 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross

Question: How many commanders are in The Order?
Answer: 8,960

Question: How many Knights and Dames Commander?
Answer: 845

Question: How many officers and members maybe be appointed per year?
Answer: 858 Officers and 1,464 Members

Question: Who has the highest numbers of the British Orders of Chivalry?
Answer: Order of the British Empire

Question: What are the Members of classes of the Order assigned to?
Answer: positions in the order of precedence

Question: Who of the male members feature on the order?
Answer: Wives of male members of all classes also feature on the order of precedence, as do sons, daughters and daughters-in-law

Question: Who are not assigned any special precedence?
Answer: relatives of Ladies of the Order