Published: 12th Feb 2021

1)Which element has the highest atomic number? a) Moscovium b) Rutherfordium c) Oganesson

2) What system in mathematics did John Napier invent?

3) The person who discovered the chemical element Palladium named it after what? a) Himself b) the comet Pallas c) A London theatre

4) What do you call “a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change”?

Published: 9th Feb 2021

Below are a series of statements and all you have to do is decide whether they are true or false, good luck!

1) Mercury’s atmosphere is made up totally of Carbon Dioxide.

2) South America is larger than Antarctica.

3) More of the French liqueur Benedictine is consumed in the Paris Sports Bar in Saint Nazaire than any other single establishment in the world.

4) The name Australia means Southern Land.

5) Flashman was a character from the book ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’.

Published 8th Feb 2021

1) In the acronym BSE, what word comes before Spongiform Encephalopathy?

2) Based on the definition of a desert being an area that has less than 10 inches of rain a year, which is the largest desert?

3) Which was the last British city to be named the European Capital of Culture?

4) In which novel, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is the narrator a teenager named David Balfour?

5) Situated in Peru and Bolivia, what is the highest navigable lake in the world?

A quiz about historical events that happened in the month of february.

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