QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

1. In the insect world, what are brimstones, small coppers and commas?
Butterflies
2. Which common garden insect gets its scientific name from the latin for ‘little scissors’?
Earwig – (forficula)
3. What insect can also be known as the devil’s darning needle?
Dragonfly
4. What do female mosquitoes feed on?
Blood
5. What name is given to a male non-working bee?
Drone
6. The Bombyx Mori produces in its cocoon a fine, lustrous fibre used to make a certain high quality cloth. Which cloth?
Silk – The Bombyx Mori is the silkworm
7. By what common name are headlice known?
Nits
8. What is the worlds longest insect?
Borneo stick insect
9. Which insect suffers from ‘Isle of Wight’ disease?
Bee
10. ‘Garden Tiger’ and ‘Hornet Clearwing’ are species of which insect?
Moth
11. The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction?
Praying Mantis
12. What type of insect is a Whirligig?
Water beetle
13. What is the common name of the insect Lampyris Noctiluca the female of which produces light to attract the male?
Glow Worm
14. The bloodworm is the larval form of what insect?
Gnat or midge
15. What is the worlds fastest moving insect?
Tropical Cockroach
16. The Cardinal is the largest type of which British insect?
Spider
17. The daddy-longlegs is the popular name for which insect?
Crane fly
18. What sort of insect is a "cockchafer"?
Beetle
19. An insect’s body is divided into three main parts, the head, the abdomen and which other?
Thorax
20. What is the most commonly consumed insect in the world?
Grasshopper

21. What is the world’s largest insect?
Acteon Beetle from South America
22. According to the nursery rhyme, which insect is advised urgently to ‘fly away home’?
Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home
23. What is the state insect of Texas?
Monarch Butterfly
24. What insect in Spain is known as La Cucaracha?
The Cockroach
25. The tumblebug is an alternative name for which insect?
Dung Beetle
26. Which insect is the symbol of female potency?
The Honey Bee
27. Which insect has “weaver and driver” varieties?
Ant’s
28. What insect has a king as well as a queen?
Termites
29. Which plant-sucking insect caused huge disruption to the wine industry of Europe in the 19th century?
Phylloxera
30. Which of the following varieties of insect is the most common, as judged by the number of known species - A) Ants (hymenoptera), B) Beetles(coleoptera), C) Bugs (hemiptera), D) Flies (diptera)?
Beetles, at 400,000, more than twice as many as their nearest rival
31. Rabble, Rainbow and Kaleidoscope are all collective nouns for which insect?
Ladybirds, Butterflies, Wasps
32. What insect uses a substance called propolis to construct its dwelling?
Bee
33. An aggregation of any insect is usually referred to as what?
A Colony
34. What common insect is known in scottish dialect as clipshears?
Earwig
35. What insect can live up to nine days without its head?
Cockroach
36. What insect spreads Sleeping Sickness?
The Tse Tse Fly
37. What is the only insect that can turn its head?
Praying Mantis
38. As seen in long grass how is the froth made by the froghopper insect commonly known?
Cuckoo spit
39. Siverline bird wing, vanished arrow and white dragon tail are all species of which insect?
Butterfly
40. Which insect is popular with gardeners because it feeds on aphids?
Ladybird

Tiebreaker - The hawkmoth is the fastest flying insect, but what is it’s top speed in MPH?
33.3

1. What A is an instrument used in aircraft that measures height above sea level?
Altimeter
2. Which aircraft company makes the Jumbo jet?
Boeing
3. By what name is the DC-3 aircraft better known?
Dakota
4. If you were an Apache pilot in the airforce, what sort of aircraft would you be flying?
Helicopter
5. Which type of wind is thought to take its name from the Spanish for “thunderstorm”, and in turn has given its name to a type of military aircraft?
Tornado
6. Till it was destroyed in a fire in 1937, the German airship “The Hindenberg” was the biggest aircraft ever to fly – with which gas was the Hindenberg filled?
Hydrogen
7. By what name was the German Junkers JU87 dive-bomber known?
Stuka
8. The De Havilland DH98 was built entirely of wood – how was it more commonly known?
The Mosquito
9. The main German bomber used during the ‘blitz’ was a HE111 – who made these?
Heinkel
10. Which British fighter finally took to the skies in november 1942?
The Typhoon
11. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster
12. What part of an aircraft is the empennage?
Tail Unit
13. International Aircraft Registration, what country is SU?
Egypt
- International aircraft registration letters, what country is PP or PT?
Brazil
- VH is the international aircraft registration for which country?
Australia
14. What was the worlds first passenger jet aircraft?
Comet
15. With which type of aircraft is Igor Sikorsky associated?
Helicopters
16. What is the B-2 Spirit, a U.S. fighter aircraft, better known as?
Stealth Bomber
17. On 4th August, 1954, Britain’s first supersonic fighter plane, made its maiden flight, What was its name?
The English Electric Lightning P-1
18. What name is given to the Black Box which is actually Orange that collects data on an aircraft?
Flight Recorder
19. What does the acronym VTOL stand for when applied to an aircraft?
Vertical take off and landing
20. In 1929 the first what happened on an aircraft?
Birth

21. Aircraft from Great Britain have G as their first registration letter - what letter do American aircraft have?
N
22. Which company manufactured the ‘Tristar’ aircraft?
Lockheed
23. What type of Aircraft made its first trial flight in 1900?
Zeppelin
24. Which company publishes the handbook ‘All The World’s Aircraft’?
Janes
25. What on aircraft are known as blue rooms?
Toilets
26. Which British aircraft company manufactured the WWII ‘Lancaster’ bomber?
AVRO
27. Which famous pilot flew an aircraft called ‘Jason’?
Amy Johnson
28. In WWII, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the allies?
Zero
29. What V made the aircraft Viscount, Valiant and Vulcan?
Vickers
30. What Was The Name Of The Boeing 747 Aircraft Blown Up Over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Spirit Of The Sea
31. Who manufactured the Merlin engines, used to power the Spitfire fighter aircraft?
Rolls Royce
32. Which one is the name of a military aircraft: Pandacat, Tigercat or Wolfcat?
Tigercat
33. Who was Minister of Aircraft Production in Winston Churchill’s wartime Cabinet?
Beaverbrook
34. The are nine aircraft in the RAF Red Arrows display team, how many aircraft are there in the French equivalent ‘The Patrouille de France’?
Eight - Alpha Jets
35. The Soviet Sukhoi-34 fighter was the worlds first fighter aircraft with what - a) an ejector seat b) a rear firing cannon or c) a toilet?
Answer c) a toilet fitted in it!
36. Which twin boom aircraft was the only allied jet to enter production during WWII?
Vampire
37. Which aircraft starred in the film 633 Squadron?
Mosquito
38. The RAF Red Arrows display team have nine aircraft, how many aircraft do the National Acrobatic Team “Frecce Tricolori” of the Italian Air Force have?
Ten - Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN aircraft (They fly with ten MB-339’s and they have three spare planes)
39. Who is credited with inventing the Jet engine?
Sir Frank Whittle
40. True or False, According to Alaskan state law it is illegal to look at a Moose through an aircraft window?
True!

-Which South American capital city is laid out in the shape of an aircraft?
Brasilia

Tiebreaker - In which year - US inventor Paul MacCready’s aircraft Gossamer Condor makes the first human-powered flight and The first Laker ‘Skytrain’ flies from London to New York?
1977