NRMjobs Quiz answers 25-Mar-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Auto-’

(1) What is an automaton?

Answer: A self-operating machine.

(2) What is autotomy?

Answer: Casting off a body part when under threat (eg lizard’s tail).

(3) What is an autotroph?

Answer: A ‘primary producer’ organism - which can produce its own food using light (usually), water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.

(4) What does someone who supports autogeny believe?

Answer: That living organisms can be created from non-living matter.

(5) What is a word meaning to eat or otherwise consume one’s own body?

Answer: Autophagy.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 18-Mar-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Budgies’

(1) What are budgerigars called in the US?

Answer: Parakeets.

(2) What UK celebrity wrote the children’s books series featuring ‘Budgie the Little Helicopter’?

Answer: Sarah Ferguson.

(3) Which one of the following did not have pet budgerigars? (a) Joseph Stalin (b) Adolph Hitler (c) Winston Churchill (d) John F Kennedy.

Answer: (b) Adolph Hitler.

(4) What Guinness World Record is still held by Puck, a male budgerigar which died in California in 1994?

Answer: Largest vocabulary of any bird (1,728 words).

(5) Best known for his 1970s hit ‘The Newcastle Song’, which Australian singer, broadcaster and archaeologist also recorded the comic song ‘Jonathon Livingston Budgerigar’

Answer: Dr Bob Hudson.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 11-Mar-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Worms’

(1) The world’s largest earthworm, Megascolides australis (aka karmai) can reportedly grow up to three metres long. Where in Australia would you find it?

Answer: Gippsland, Victoria.

(2) Who spent 40 years studying the role of earthworms in soil formation, and published his findings in a book titled The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms?

Answer: Charles Darwin.

(3) Where would you find the giant, fictional worm known reverentially as Shai-Hulud?

Answer: On the planet Arrakis (aka Dune).

(4) Hypolimnus pedderensis was the first species of earthworm recorded to have been sent extinct by human activities. Where did it live?

Answer: Lake Pedder, Tasmania.

(5) What is the missing word in William Blake’s famous short poem: “O Rose thou art sick / The … worm / That flies in the night / In the howling storm / Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy / And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy.”

Answer: Invisible.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 04-Mar-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Rattle’

(1) What happens to a rattlesnake’s tail each time it sheds its skin?

Answer: A new segment is added to the rattle.

(2) What does it mean in Australia when someone tells you to “rattle your dags”?

Answer: Hurry up.

(3) What is the common name for plants of the Crotalaria genus?

Answer: Rattlepods.

(4) What does it mean to “ride the rattler”?

Answer: Jump onto a moving freight train to avoid paying for a ticket.

(5) In what series does the fictional character mockingly known as Rattleshirt appear? (bonus: what is his own preferred name?).

Answer: Game of Thrones (bonus: Lord of Bones).