Question: On 25 December 1990 while working at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between a HTTP client and server via the Internet. In less than 10 years, Time named him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. Who?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Question: What is the essential difference between a strain and a sprain?
Answer: Strain impacts a muscle, and sprain a ligament

Question: A note written in 1637 in the margin of a book says that there are no positive integers x, y and z such that xn + yn = zn, where n is an integer greater than two. This wasn't proved until 1995. Who is the author of this note?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat

Question: Dendrochronology is the method of determining age/timeline by the counting of what 'circles'? (hint: 'dendron' in Greek is?)
Answer: Tree-rings

Question: What 'explosive' celestial phenomena, abbreviated GRBs, are said to be the most luminous electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe?
Answer: Gamma-ray bursts

Question: Princess Irene, Carnaval de Nice, Hollandia and Blue Parrot are some of the varieties of what spring beauties?
Answer: Tulips

Question: If you are a school teacher, an orrery would be a welcome edition to your models. What is it used to illustrate?
Answer: Positions and motions of the planets and satellites of the Solar System

Question: What wishing program has become the traditional first program that people see when starting to learn a new programming language?
Answer: """Hello world"""

Question: In the hardware industry, what 'stirring' word describes the process of coating of iron/steel with zinc to prevent rusting?
Answer: Galvanization

Question: What namesake thought experiment intended to demonstrate the limitation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics features a malevolent creature opening doors in a chamber?
Answer: Maxwell's demon

Question: A hypothetical elementary particle called the Higgs boson that is the subject of studies using the Large Hadron Collider has been given what 'divine' name by the mainstream media?
Answer: God particle

Question: In biology, what 3-letter word derived from the Swedish for 'play' is a gathering of males of certain bird species for the purposes of mating display?
Answer: Lek

Question: Global warming be damned. The 19th century biologist Louis Agassiz who studied Alpine glaciers was the first to propose that the Earth had been subject what phenomena in the past?
Answer: Ice ages

Question: If Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees, Birutė Galdikas, who worked for a long time in Borneo is to what animal?
Answer: Orangutan

Question: In biology, the theory that states that an animal's development from embryo to adult resembles the stages in the evolution of its ancestors is commonly expressed as what three word phrase?
Answer: """Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"""

Question: The common basilisk is a lizard found in Central and South American rain-forests and is known for its ability to run on water. What is its appropriate nickname?
Answer: Jesus Christ lizard

Question: What is the only major planet of the Solar System that takes its English name from Greek mythology?
Answer: Uranus

Question: The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is best known for his work on the geometry of what unusual shapes?
Answer: Fractals

Question: What controversial theory in evolutionary biology proposes that most sexually reproducing species will experience little or no evolutionary change and remain in an extended state called stasis?
Answer: Punctuated equilibrium

Question: What substance registered in 1870 and widely used as a replacement for ivory is regarded as the first synthetic plastic?
Answer: Celluloid

Question: The Danjon Scale is a five-point scale for measuring the appearance and luminosity of a particular heavenly body during what type of event?
Answer: Lunar eclipse

Question: What bones found in the hands and feet are named for the ancient Greek army formation in which soldiers stood side by side like an arrangement of fingers or toes?
Answer: Phalanges (from phalanx)

Question: The common name of which element, symbol Sb is from the Greek for 'not alone'?
Answer: Antimony (anti-monos means not-alone)

Question: Mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining of the body's internal organs (the mesothelium) is usually caused by exposure to what substance?
Answer: Asbestos

Question: Which lady physicist was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission for which her colleague Otto Hahn won the Nobel and is often mentioned as the most glaring example of womens scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee?
Answer: Lise Meitner

Question: Named for a scientist who discovered it in 1961, what is the term for the number of times a normal cell population will divide before it stops?
Answer: Hayflick limit

Question: In 2001, a successful tele-surgical operation was carried out by a team of surgeons in New York on a patient located in France using sophisticated robotics.Can you guess what this 'trans-Atlantic' operation was called?
Answer: Operation Lindbergh

Question: 'Heat, pain, redness, and swelling', the four classical signs of inflammation known since ancient times are called by what rhyming phrase in medicine?
Answer: Calor, dolor, rubor and tumor

Question: """I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds."" This quote from the Hindu treatise Bhagavad Gita was famously used at what 1945 event?"
Answer: Trinity nuclear test

Question: There is no such thing as knowing this a little. The 'rabbit test' developed in 1927 by Bernhard Zondek and Selmar Aschheim was used to check for what?
Answer: Pregnancy

Question: In chemistry, what is the common name for the alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula C(n)H(2n+2), the simplest form of which is the methane (CH4) gas?
Answer: Paraffin

Question: Were he alive in 2006, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh would have been disappointed as his discovery was 'dwarfed.' What did he discover in 1930?
Answer: Pluto

Question: In the animal kingdom, what are 'spiracles' that are found on the surface of some animals?
Answer: Small openings that usually lead to respiratory systems

Question: NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are the following four powerful space-based telescopes. What is the missing word? (hint: An Indian-born American scientist known for his 'limit') 1. The Hubble Space Telescope 2. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory 3. The Spitzer Space Telescope 4. ___ X-ray Observatory
Answer: Chandra

Question: What non-technical term is given to a condition where the thumb, when extended (as in a 'thumbs-up'), stretches backwards toward the nail and outwards?
Answer: Hitchhiker's thumb

Question: What is a type of chemical mixture where one substance is dispersed evenly throughout another?
Answer: Colloid

Question: Literally meaning 'on the kidney', what hormone that participates in the 'fight or flight' response of the body is produced by the adrenal glands?
Answer: Epinephrine

Question: Woods Hole, Massachusetts is famous for having many institutes in what field of science?
Answer: Marine science

Question: Meaning 'indicator' in Greek, what is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow called?
Answer: Gnomon

Question: In 1931, the American physical chemist Harold Urey demonstrated the existence of what type of 'weighty' liquid that proved important in the development of the atomic bomb?
Answer: Heavy water

Question: Taking its name from the Latin word for magpie, what medical disorder is characterized by an appetite for non-nutritive substances (e.g., clay)?
Answer: Pica

Question: What are the correct words for the emission of light at high and low temperatures?
Answer: Incandescence and luminescence respectively