1. This question contains one of those subtle grammatical traps you can so easily fall into. Someone who is afraid of blushing is known as an ______ ? erythrophobe gephyrophobe merinthophobe taphephobe

2. The clue is in the question. The time it takes the earth to complete EXACTLY one orbit of the sun is... 365.242199 days 365.2 days 365 days 366 days

3. This time the clue is in the options. In the USA, which was the 16th state to join the Union? Vancouver Tennessee Hawaii Alaska

4. Good option construction is critical to a good question. The process known as UHT entails the product being heat treated at a temperature of not less than 135 degrees Centigrade for ... A very short time A very short time, aseptically packaged in sterile containers, and it should have undergone minimum chemical, physical and organoleptic changes in relation to the severity of the treatment required for sterilisation. A very short time and it has then been aseptically packaged in sterile containers A very short time, aseptically packaged in sterile containers, and it should have undergone minimum chemical changes in relation to the severity of the treatment required for sterilisation.

5. This one might entail some addition. What are the third and fourth volumes in Robert Rankin's "Brentford" series? "East of Ealing" and "The Book of Ultimate Truths" "East of Ealing" and "The Sprouts of Wrath" "East of Ealing" and "The Suburban Book of the Dead" "The Brentford Triangle" and "The Sprouts of Wrath"

6. Sometimes the correct answer just looks right. Robert Banks Jenkinson's term as British Prime Minister was notable for ... expensive foreign wars the ruthless suppression of free speech and the freedom of the press colonial expeditions education reforms

7. Common sense can sometimes play a part. Which law sought to prevent discrimination against employees in the UK on the grounds of their sex? Family Law Reform Act 1969 Sex Discrimination Act 1975 Race Relations Act 1976 Administration of Justice Act 1982

8. This one is a combination of playing safe and avoiding the unlikely. What is the atomic number of Antimony? 51 8 1 298

9. When you have discounted the impossible whatever is left is likely to be right. An increase in the velocity of fluid flowing through a pipe is ... impossible unlikely to give rise to turbulence likely to give rise to turbulence solely dependent on the length of the pipe

10. Hmm. Does one of these just leap off the page at you? Of alpha, beta and gamma rays, which is a hydrogen nucleus? None of these as these are not protons Beta Alpha Gamma

11. It's all down to grammar again. The main constituents of natural gas are _____ ? oxygen helium methane and ethane hydrogen

12. How good are you at foreign names? Which painter produced a series of paintings for the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice? Baldung Tintoretto Altdorfer Dumoussier

13. Some of the adjectives in the question might point you to the answer here. In highly successful South African trials, the inoculant's treatment of big round bale silage resulted in ________? There was no effect reduced milk production increased milk production The effect was not predictable

14. How good is your mathematical ability (and your reading skills)? What PERCENTAGE of the atmosphere is Nitrogen? 1/2 78% Three quarters All of it

15. If it looks right it probably is. The transformation from the Triassic to the Jurassic periods was marked by ... the disappearance of the continental tetrapods a major upsurge in marine fossils a dramatic change from high diversity palynofloras to assemblages almost entirely composed of cheirolipidaceous conifers an increase in ammonoid cephalapods