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| 491 | Which South American country has borders with Columbia and Peru? | Ecuador | |
| 492 | How many states of the United States of America have a Pacific coast? | 5 (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii) | |
| 493 | In which European country would you find the Troodos mountain range? | Cyprus | |
| 494 | Three countries have both an Atlantic and a Mediterranean coast. France and Spain are two, but what is the other? | Morocco | |
| 495 | What is the more common name for the medical condition of periorbital hematoma? | Black eye | |
| 496 | Flagged What is the name of the sea that separates New Zealand and Australia? | Tasman Sea | |
| 497 | Where in the human body would you find the Islets of Langerhans? | The pancreas | |
| 498 | The name of which European capital city is derived from the names of two towns on either bank of its main river? | Budapest (from Buda and Pest) | |
| 499 | What is the common name for the medical condition epistaxis? | Nose bleed | |
| 500 | Which shipping forecast area is to the directly north of Ireland? | Malin | |
| 501 | Winnepeg is the capital of which Canadian province? | Manitoba | |
| 502 | Name the river that flows through the city of Albuquerque in the USA. | Rio Grande | |
| 503 | How many wings does a bee have? | Four | |
| 504 | What is the lightest metal under standard conditions? | Lithium | |
| 505 | How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates? | 7 | |
| 506 | In which country is the highest mountain in South America? | Argentina | |
| 507 | What is the boiling point of water using the scientific kelvin scale of temperature measurement | 373k - kelvins | |
| 508 | Which organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? | Kidney | |
| 509 | Which planet in the solar system would come third alphabetically? | Mars | |
| 510 | Which `M` is the ruling planet of the astrological sign Gemini? | Mercury | |
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| 511 | What is the chemical symbol for the element Silver? | Ag | |
| 512 | What defines the measurement of a light year? | The distance that light travels in a year | |
| 513 | What is the second largest planet in the Solar System? | Saturn | |
| 514 | What is trichology the study of? Hair, Bones or Fingernails? | Hair | |
| 515 | In computing, what does the letter `A` stand for in `ASCII`? All, Assumed or American? | American | |
| 516 | Which has the larger ears - the African or Asian elephant? | African | |
| 517 | What type of animal is a Bombay Duck? | Fish | |
| 518 | What is the plural of mongoose? | Mongooses | |
| 519 | What is a group of chickens called? | A brood | |
| 520 | What is the collective noun for a group of toads? A knot, a stitch or a weave? | A knot | |
| 521 | What type of animal is an eland? An antelope, a monkey or a bat? | An antelope. | |
| 522 | Cats are indigenous to all but which two continents? | Australia and Antarctica | |
| 523 | Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? | 24 | |
| 524 | What are the four main blood groups? | A, B, AB and O | |
| 525 | Lentigines is the medical term for what? Birthmarks, freckles or fingernails. | Freckles | |
| 526 | In computing, what does the letter `O` stand for in `MS-DOS`? | Operating | |
| 527 | What is an anenometer used to measure? | Wind Speed | |
| 528 | What are the four categories of taste that the human tongue can detect? | Sweet, Sour, Salt and Bitter | |
| 529 | On the Beaufort Scale of wind speed what comes after a fresh breeze? | Strong Breeze | |
| 530 | Flagged Approximately what percentage of the human body is water? 60%, 70% or 80% | 0.8 | |
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| 531 | Which element has the chemical symbol S? | Sulphur | |
| 532 | How many wings does a normal bee have? | 4 | |
| 533 | Which of the following elements has a chemical symbol which does not begin with `I`? Iodine, Iron or Iridium? | Iron | |
| 534 | What is the only bird that can swim but not fly? | The penguin | |
| 535 | In computing, what does CPU stand for? | Central processing unit | |
| 536 | To the nearest whole number, how many metres is 20 feet? | 6 | |
| 537 | What is the collective name for a group of insects? | A swarm | |
| 538 | True or False: Slug`s don`t have noses? | False (they have four!) | |
| 539 | True or False: In space it is impossible to cry:? | True (there is no gravity, so tears can`t flow) | |
| 540 | The speed of light is approximately equal to how many miles per second? 186,000, 6.1 million or 310 million? | 186,000 | |
| 541 | Who said `Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind`? | Albert Einstein | |
| 542 | What type of creature is a taipan? | Snake | |
| 543 | What single letter is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium? | K | |
| 544 | Which plant is the only one to have flowers, but no proper leaves? | Cactus | |
| 545 | How does a python snake kill its prey? | By constricting them | |
| 546 | Which of the following elements has the atomic number 2? Carbon, Lithium or Helium? | Helium | |
| 547 | What is the collective noun for a group of kangaroos? An army, a mob or a troop? | A mob | |
| 548 | Which planet was discovered in 1930 and has only one known satellite called Charon? | Pluto | |
| 549 | How many zeros would you associate with the metric prefix `giga`? | 9 | |
| 550 | What medical term evolved as a result of a condition suffered by Chang and Eng Bunker? | Siamese Twins | |
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| 551 | What does the letter `A` stand for in the disease `AIDS`? | Acquired | |
| 552 | How many millions away from the Sun is the Earth? 93 million, 2 and a half billion, or 113 billion? | 93 million | |
| 553 | Where in the human body would you find the metatarsals? | In the feet | |
| 554 | What is the name given to a triangle with two sides the same length and two angles of equal size? | Isosceles | |
| 555 | In centimeters, what is the diameter of a standard CD? 12, 14 or 16? | 12 | |
| 556 | How many bones are in a human neck? 2, 7 or 31? | 7 | |
| 557 | Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet? | Saturn | |
| 558 | What does the letter `A` stand for in `NICAM`? | Audio | |
| 559 | What was John Napier famous for inventing? | Logarithms | |
| 560 | What are Sirius, Vega and Rigal? Stars, Comets or Galaxies? | Stars | |
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