A round on discovery and classification. How the periodic table is ordered, what a litmus test establishes, and who spotted Uranus through a telescope.
There is a deliberate false statement about the moons of Saturn, and a question about what fool's gold actually is.
- On the periodic table, elements are arranged in order of what?
- The moons Phobos and Deimos belong to planet Saturn?
- What does a litmus test establish?
- What did Benjamin Franklin invent?
- What is fool's gold made of?
- Which astronomer discovered Uranus whilst surveying the night sky through a telescope?
- What is the process by which plants convert light energy into food known as?
- What group of invertebrate animals have three pairs of legs and a body split into three parts?
- Which famous scientist wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 advising that the United States should focus on its own nuclear weapon research?
- What is the first stage of the hydrologic cycle?
- What type of energy is stored by a spring when it is stretched?
- Which 3 elements can be magnetised??
- Which planet takes approximately 23 Earth months to orbit the Sun?
- Which Russian chemist became the first scientist to create a periodic table?
- More than half of the bones in a human body are found in the hands and feet?
- Which silvery-white metal has the atomic number 46?
- What scientific name is table salt known as?
- Which famous physicist discovered and named the proton?
- What powers pneumatic machinery?
- Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years following the death of Gallileo?