NRMjobs Quiz answers 25-Feb-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Sap’

(1) Vascular plants have two types of sap: xylem sap and phloem sap. Which one carries water from the roots up to the leaves?

Answer: Xylem sap.

(2) Which of the following is not a meaning for ‘sap’? (a) Vigour (b) To weaken (c) A club (d) A trench (e) A gullible fool (f) A small tree.

Answer: (f) A small tree.

(3) True or false: Amber is formed from fossilised tree sap?

Answer: False: Amber is formed from fossilised tree resin.

(4) What is a sapper?

Answer: A soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc.

(5) What common food product is made from the sap of the north American tree, Acer saccharum?

Answer: Maple syrup.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 18-Feb-2021

This week’s theme: ‘-icles’

(1) What are spikes of ice formed when dripping water freezes?

Answer: Icicles.

(2) What is the collective name for the three middle ear bones found in all mammals?

Answer: Ossicles.

(3) What are multi-branched clusters of flowers, especially in grasses?

Answer: Panicles.

(4) What are small secretory cavities, sacs or glands – such as the pits in the skin from which hairs grow on mammals?

Answer: Follicles.

(5) What are small, fluid filled organelles which store and transport materials within cells?

Answer: Vesicles.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 11-Feb-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Sixty’

(1) What is 60 degrees Celsius in Farenheit? (bonus: what is 60 degrees Farenheit in Celsius?)

Answer: 140 Farenheit (bonus 15.56 Celsius).

(2) Sexaginta means ‘sixty’ in what language?

Answer: Latin.

(3) How bright (in lumens) is a standard 60-watt incandescent bulb? (a) 60 lumens (b) 800 lumens (c) 10,000 lumens (d) 120,000 lumens?

Answer: (b) 800 lumens.

(4) In what year did the Australian TV program 60 Minutes first go to air in Australia?

Answer: 1979.

(5) If a triangle has two 60-degree corners, what angle is the third corner?

Answer: 60 degrees.

Bonus question: On what day was the NRMjobs quizmaster born?

Answer: 11 February, 1961 (Yep, it’s my 60th today. Hope you are enjoying the quizzes).

NRMjobs Quiz answers 4-Feb-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Sharks’

(1) What is a baby shark called?

Answer: A pup.

(2) How many bones are there in a shark’s skeleton?

Answer: None.

(3) What did carpenters traditionally use sharkskin for?

Answer: Sand paper.

(4) True or false?: Baby sharks sometimes prey on their siblings whilst still inside the womb.

Answer: True.

(5) Which English sea captain gave the name ‘Shark Bay’ in 1699 to the natural feature, 800km north of Perth, known by Aboriginal people as Gutharraguda?

Answer: William Dampier.