Do you have what it takes to be a future Brain of Britain?
Below are 5 questions from 2014s contest. The answers can be found at the end of the page, and according to the quiz rules, if you answer all 5 correctly, you get a bonus point.
Question 1:
In which major London building did Margaret Thatcher die?
Question 2:
Which two Russian cities are the end points of the Trans-Siberian highway?
Question 3:
“My name means the shape I am, and a good handsome shape it is too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape almost.”
Which character tells Alice this in 'Through the Looking Glass'?
Question 4:
What is the name for the radiation theoretically emitted from just outside the event horizon of a black hole?
Lastly...
Question 5:
An iatrogenic disease is an adverse medical condition arising in which particular circumstances?
How did you do?
Here are the answers:
1 - The Ritz Hotel
2 - Vladivostok and St Petersburg
3 - Humpty Dumpty
4 - Hawking Radiation
5 - It's as a result of medical treatment for other diseases e.g. hospital acquired infections and unwanted results of drug testing.
