Question: What is the main use of the tree Citrus bergamia?
Answer: Perfume

Question: Which physician developed a type of remedy involving wild flowers?
Answer: Bach

Question: How many species of domestic dog are found today?
Answer: One

Question: What kind of creature is a barnacle?
Answer: A crustacean

Question: Machiavelli used which plant's name as the title of one of his books?
Answer: Mandrake

Question: What is the name of the evolutionary theory suggesting that evolution has an uneven pace?
Answer: Punctuated equilibrium

Question: Which step in photosynthesis is responsible for splitting water molecules?
Answer: Light reaction

Question: Which kind of organisms are likely to show a 'taxis'?
Answer: Protozoa

Question: Which organ is responsible for regulating the blood sugar level?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: What is the scientific name for the human ''tail'?
Answer: Coccyx

Question: When might a person show rapid eye movement (REM)?
Answer: During sleep

Question: Which organ removes excess water from the blood?
Answer: Kidney

Question: Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?
Answer: Stomach

Question: A deficiency of which vitamin can cause scurvy?
Answer: Vitamin C

Question: What are the two main veins in the neck, returning blood from the brain to the heart?
Answer: Jugular veins

Question: What is the term fro a series of uncontrollable intakes of air caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm?
Answer: Hiccups

Question: What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane?
Answer: Ear drum

Question: What is the name for a red blood cell?
Answer: Erythrocyte

Question: What is the scientific name for the windpipe?
Answer: Trachea

Question: Where would you find the pisiform bone?
Answer: Wrist

Question: What is the scientific name for the kneecap?
Answer: Patella

Question: What is protected by the cranium?
Answer: Brain

Question: What is the name of the large muscle just beneath the lungs?
Answer: Diaphragm

Question: Where in the body is the thyroid?
Answer: The neck

Question: Which organ in the body stores excess sugar as glycogen?
Answer: Liver

Question: What name is given to the small bones which form the spinal column?
Answer: Vertebrae

Question: Where in the body are the cerebellum, the medulla and the hypothalamus?
Answer: Brain

Question: What are the very narrow blood vessels which form a network between arteries and veins?
Answer: Capillaries

Question: What is the name of the membrane enclosing the fluid around the fetus?
Answer: Amnion; amniotic membrane

Question: What is the ring of bones at the hip called?
Answer: Pelvic girdle

Question: What tube connects the kidney to the bladder?
Answer: Ureter

Question: What is the name of the structural tissue found in the ear, the nose, and in between the vertebral discs?
Answer: Cartilage

Question: Which artery supplies the kidney with blood?
Answer: Renal artery

Question: Which three bones are collectively known as the auditory ossicles?
Answer: Hammer; anvil; stirrup

Question: How many ventricles are there in the human heart?
Answer: Two

Question: What is the scientific name for the tube connecting the mouth with the stomach?
Answer: Oesophagus

Question: Which parts of the body are formed by the bones of the metatarsals and phalanges?
Answer: Feet

Question: What is the oxygen-carrying protein found in the red blood cells of the body?
Answer: Hemoglobin

Question: What are the chemicals produced by the endocrine glands to control body functions?
Answer: Hormones

Question: Where in the human body do you find the alveoli?
Answer: Lung

Question: What name is given to the genetic make-up of an individual?
Answer: Genotype

Question: A bone is joined to a muscle by which structure?
Answer: Tendon

Question: What is the biggest bone in the body?
Answer: Femur

Question: Which of the retina's cells can distinguish between different wavelengths of light?
Answer: Cone cells

Question: Which hormone causes male sexual development?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: Which part of the brain controls the heart rate?
Answer: Medulla oblongata

Question: How many genes are there in the human genome?
Answer: 80,000

Question: What is an overgrowth of fibrous tissue, usually produced at the site of a scar?
Answer: Keloid

Question: Which is the only vein in the body to carry oxygenated blood?
Answer: Pulmonary vein

Question: Which name is given to the heart chamber which receives blood?
Answer: Atrium

Question: What kind of joint is the hip?
Answer: Ball-and-socket

Question: Where is the sinoatrial node?
Answer: Heart

Question: What is the substance that the body over-produces in an allergic reaction to pollen?
Answer: Histamine

Question: Which organ of the body secretes insulin?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: Which part of the gut absorbs water from thje food?
Answer: Colon

Question: Where would you find the islets of Langerhans?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: What is the colored muscle that responds involuntarily to light?
Answer: Iris

Question: What is the name of the enzyme produced in the mouth?
Answer: Salivary amylase

Question: The pituitary controls many hormones, but what controls the pituitary?
Answer: Hypothalamus

Question: What is the pigment that colors skin?
Answer: Melanin

Question: Which tissue secretes progesterone during the second half of the menstrual cycle?
Answer: Corpus luteum

Question: What are the natural pain-killing substances produced in the brain and pituitary gland?
Answer: Endorphins

Question: What is the function of the islets of Langerhans?
Answer: They secrete insulin

Question: What hormone was discovered by John Jacob Abel?
Answer: Adrenaline

Question: What is the substance produced by hard exercise and oxygen debt, causing stiffness in the muscles?
Answer: Lactic acid

Question: Where would you find the carotid arteries?
Answer: Neck

Question: Which protein forms hair and nails?
Answer: Keratin

Question: Which gas released by car exhausts, stops the blood hemoglobin from working correctly?
Answer: Carbon Monoxide

Question: What device is added to a car's exhaust system to reduce pollution?
Answer: Catalytic converter

Question: Which Australian mammal lays eggs?
Answer: Duck-billed platypus

Question: What is the term for something that will break down naturally?
Answer: Biodegradable

Question: Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: Which fuel is formed by the fossilization of plants?
Answer: Coal

Question: Oxygen forms approximately what proportion of the atmosphere?
Answer: 20%

Question: What kind of tide appears at full Moon?
Answer: Spring tide

Question: What is the term given to the study of the weather?
Answer: Meteorology

Question: Which country produces the world's largest quantity of municipal waste per person per year?
Answer: Usa

Question: Which is the largest national park in Europe?
Answer: Hobe Tauern in Austria

Question: What is the scientific scale for measuring the hardness of rocks?
Answer: Mohs' scale

Question: What is the world's smallest continent?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is the term for the energy obtained from hot, underground rocks?
Answer: Geothermal

Question: What name is given to the rocks swallowed by dinosaurs to assist their digestion?
Answer: Gastroliths

Question: Which chemical, commonly used to increase crop yield, sometimes contaminates drinking water?
Answer: Nitrate

Question: Where is the Glacier Bay national park?
Answer: S E Alaska

Question: When you recycle a drink can, which metal is it you are recovering?
Answer: Aluminum

Question: What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?
Answer: Lava

Question: What is the term applied to the process of gathering together weather forecasts from various recording stations?
Answer: Synoptic forecasting

Question: What kind of natural phenomenon 'meanders'?
Answer: A river