Question: Named after an English naturalist after his work in the rainforests of Brazil, what is the Batesian mimicry in the world of nature? Sheep in wolf's clothing?
Answer: A harmless species imitating the warning signals of a harmful species.

Question: In 1996, an ewe became the first mammal to be cloned. If you were told that the donor cell was taken from a mammary gland, can you use 'country music' as a clue and answer why she got the name 'Dolly'?
Answer: From Dolly Parton, the famously busty country singer

Question: Since the 1960s the International System of Units (SI) has been the internationally recognised standard metric system. Name 2 of the 3 countries that are yet to officially adopt it.
Answer: USA, Liberia, and Myanmar

Question: Until it was named for a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses, what deadly disease had been called the 'French disease' in Italy and Germany, and the 'Italian disease' in France? Guess nobody wanted to associate themselves with it!
Answer: Syphilis

Question: What industrial process that consumes 3-5% of the world's natural gas and 1-2% of the world's annual energy supply is the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen over an iron substrate to produce ammonia?
Answer: Haber process (also Haber-Bosch process)

Question: What is the name of the brew prepared from the Banisteriopsis vine native to the Amazon Rainforest that is famously used for shamanic purposes?
Answer: Ayahuasca, and also called yage in Columbia and caapi in Brazil

Question: The Tupolev Tu-144 has what other famous counterpart in the annals of civilian aviation as a unique achievement goes?
Answer: Concorde (only supersonic passenger airliners)

Question: What early type of photographic process in which the image is exposed onto a surface of silver was invented in 1839 by a Frenchman who gave it its name?
Answer: Daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre

Question: What algebraic system taught in present-day schools is one of the legacies of the philosopher René Descartes to which he lent his name?
Answer: Cartesian geometry

Question: Say 'anatomy book' and everyone thinks of Gray's Anatomy. But which pioneer who is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy wrote the influential De humani corporis fabrica in 1543 preceding Gray by centuries?
Answer: Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

Question: What are the four Galilean moons of Jupiter that are named after the lovers of Zeus in Greek myth?
Answer: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto

Question: What mathematical puzzle that consists of three pegs and a number of disks of different sizes in which the objective is to move the entire stack of disks from one peg to another is used in computer science to teach recursion to students of programming?
Answer: Towers of Hanoi

Question: When it launched the satellite Alouette 1 in 1962, which country became the first non-superpower to enter the space race?
Answer: Canada

Question: What non-lethal weapon was named by its inventor Jack Cover after the teen science fiction character Tom Swift?
Answer: Taser

Question: What is the term coined by Brown and Kulik in 1977 to explain a memory that is laid down in great detail during a significant event, often of national or international importance?
Answer: Flashbulb memory

Question: With connection to landscapes, what does Eolian processes pertain to?
Answer: Activity of winds and the winds' ability to shape the surface of the Earth and other planets.

Question: Also the title of a 1991 Ron Howard film, what is the term for a situation which can occur when oxygen is re-introduced to a fire that is starved of it resulting in an explosive effect?
Answer: Backdraft

Question: With respect to the Solar System, what is particularly common to Shakespeare and Alexander Pope's narrative poem The Rape of the Lock?
Answer: Satellites of Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

Question: With connection to biology, what is the 'Wallace Line'?
Answer: Boundary that separates the zoogeographical regions of Asia and Australasia

Question: The common name of what African tree comes from the mistaken belief of early settlers who thought that malaria was contracted from being around them?
Answer: Fever tree

Question: In human anatomy, what is a fontanelle (or fontanel)?
Answer: Soft spots on a newborn's skull

Question: Derived from the name of an ancient King of Pontus, what is the practice of Mithridatism?
Answer: Protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts.

Question: What term is given to the biological phenomenon where the size of animals isolated on an island increases dramatically over generations?
Answer: Island gigantism

Question: What potent toxin is extracted from the castor bean?
Answer: Ricin

Question: What substance is the basis of the gold refining technique known as 'inquartation and parting' since it can dissolve silver and other base metals but not gold?
Answer: Nitric acid

Question: What controversial form of alternative medicine that aims to treat 'like with like' traces its origins to the late 18th century when it was founded by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann?
Answer: Homeopathy

Question: What is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms?
Answer: Great Barrier Reef

Question: In medicine, what is said to occur when an object migrates from one part of the body through circulation and causes a blockage of a blood vessel in another part of the body?
Answer: Embolism

Question: What is the term given to uranium that has its isotope uranium-235 removed?
Answer: Depleted uranium

Question: In biology, what is 'autotomy', which is exhibited by geckos, skinks and other lizards when captured?
Answer: The act whereby an animal severs one of its own appendages to elude a predator's grasp.

Question: When all their individual contributions are added up, what insects may constitute up to 15 to 25% of the total terrestrial animal biomass?
Answer: Ants

Question: What is the difference between a 'noble gas' and an 'inert gas'?
Answer: Unlike noble gases, an inert gas is not necessarily elemental and is often molecular.

Question: Who is the British astrophysicist who announced Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to the English-speaking world in 1919?
Answer: Arthur Eddington

Question: What biological term from the Greek for 'virgin creation' denotes the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male?
Answer: Parthenogenesis

Question: What is the most abundant protein in mammals making up about 25% of their total protein content?
Answer: Collagen

Question: Found in suitable habitat throughout Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, what is largest of all living reptiles?
Answer: Saltwater or estuarine crocodile

Question: What is the common name of the Adansonia species of tree native to Africa and Australia that is noted for its capacity to store enormous quantity of water?
Answer: Boabab

Question: What organic compound is the primary structural component of green plants and also makes-up their primary cell wall?
Answer: Cellulose

Question: Because of his advocation for the use of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution, Thomas Edison developed a bitter rivalry with which other genius who advocated alternating current (AC)?
Answer: Nikola Tesla

Question: About which Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature did Goethe write "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."?
Answer: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Question: Endemic to nine islands of an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, what is the largest living tortoise?
Answer: Galapagos tortoise

Question: What type of viper named for an African country has the highest venom yield of any snake?
Answer: Gaboon viper