
Quiz club semi-final style questions
Quiz by Gayle Ruddick
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Which part of your body is often called the control centre?
Seen during a total solar eclipse, what is the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere called?
What is the process by which magma rises through the Earth's crust onto the surface?
Which planet takes almost 12 years to orbit the Sun but rotates every 9.9 hours?
How fast do radio waves travel in a vacuum?
Can you identify this fish?

Which word describes the prehistoric era between approximately 230 and 65million years ago which included the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
What is the only way heat can be transferred in space?
What is the correct name for the shin bone?
In atomic structure, the atomic number of an element is determined by the number of what in a nucleus?
What resource do we get as a result of dead plants and animal life from millions of years ago?
Which vitamin is good for healthy bones and is produced by the body as a result of exposure to light?
What type of dinosaur is this?

In 1952, the British engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposed using a block of silicon whose layers would provide the component of electronic systems. What item, now with more than 1 trillion sold per year, did this become?
I am classified as a gastropod. I live on land and my exoskeleton is made from hard calcium carbonate which I can retreat into when threatened. I mainly feed at night and am omnivorous. What am I?
What device stores chemical energy and, via a chemical reaction, converts it to available electrical energy.
Which part of the eye is responsible for eye colour and dilates and constricts the pupil to allow more or less light in?
Starting with the smallest, put these planets in their correct order of size.
Who, in 1909, received a Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his contribution to wireless telegraphy?
What is the name for someone who studies the weather?
What kind of animal is this?

What type of tree is this?

Who, in 1911, discovered the structure of the atom?
The world's largest glacier, which in its middle is almost two and a half kilometers thick, is the Lambert Glacier. Where is it found?
Amongst the oldest objects in our galaxy, containing stars that are 12 billion years old. What is the name for a vast sphere of millions of stars, of which Omega Centauri is an example?Â
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another" is from the first law of what?
What is the name of the largest artery in the human body?
Which of the following is the correct representation of the first five elements on the periodic table?
Massive stars fuse heavier and heavier elements until they are used up, but which element finally means death to a star?
Which of the following is a metamorphic rock?