The Christmas quiz: science and nature
- What food flavouring is derived from the crocus plant?
- Which two elements alloy to form brass?
- What chemical element was formerly known as Brimstone?
- What does Covid-19 stand for?
- Which animal’s scientific name means: “A camel marked like a leopard who walks swiftly”.
- David Attenborough is best known as a naturalist, but early in his career, he also changed the game of tennis. How?
- Bruxism is the medical term for what unconsious habit?
- In the 18th century, which scientist pioneered the concept of vaccination? And why was it named as such?
- Which fourth century Greek mathematician is referred to as the “founder”, or father, of geometry?
- If you met a taikonaut in space, where would he or she have come from?
- And for a festive finale, by what name are many of the obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales better known?
