1a.  Cobalt
2a.  Erosion

3b.  Sledging 

4b.  Dakar 

5a.  Selenium 

6c.  Resin 

7a.  The baby 

8b.  Eureka City 

9c.  The Angel Falls

10a. Uranium

 

1a.  Effects of seismic events

2b. W

3a.  A paper tiger

4c.  China

5a.  Cricket

6a.  30

7b.  Guava

8a.  Contrail

9c.  Crucible

10a. Epicentre

 

 

1a.  Alpha Centaury

2c. 1986
3b. 1487

4b. Bird

5b. Baboob spider

6a. Baobab

7c. Tiger Eye
8b. Oppenheimer

9a. Rand Mines

10a. Graham Barber

 

2b.  Columbite

3a.  Johannesburg

1b.  The size of a ping-pong ball

2b.  Okiep

3b.  About 3000 BC

4a.  A mountain lion

5a.  A camel with one hump

6a.  An inhabitant of Liverpool

7b.  Matjiesfontein

8a.  A Khoi matjies huis

9a.  Black Monday

10a. A butterfly

 

 

Answers to August 2009 Quiz
 

1. Copper

2. Gaborone

3. $35 000

4. Sophist

5. Bolometer and radiometer

6. Planchette

7. Siderite

8. An Eggbeater

9. A Fiduciary issue

10. A Fiduciary

 

 

1. Persons who tried to turn metals into gold
 2. Ignorance
 3. China
 4. Silver iodide
 5. Silica gel
 6. A regmaker
 7. Pozzuolana
 8. A chemical reaction in which a compound reacts with water to produce other compounds
 9. Agoraphobia
 10. Favouritism shown to relatives by those in power

 

1.  A rhapsody waltz

2.  An ogre 

3.  A kaleidoscope

4. Cassanova, lothario or a don juan

5. A ghost

6. The Pulitzer Prize

7. A dutch treat

8. Mayday

9. A maverick

10. A European songbird

1. Mercury
2. Patina
3. Trillion
4. The Victoria Falls, the Kariba and the Cabora Bassa dams
5. Zambia
6. A domesticated bovine animal
7. A South African tree with hooked thorns
8. Topaz
9. A lover of archery
10. Lithology

Answers to January 2009 Quiz 

 

1.  Wolfram

2.  Recconnaisance

3.  Zincography

4.  Synchromesh

5.  A nuclear winter

6.  A lapidary

7.  A terrapin or turtle

8.  A didgeridoo

9.  The Socratic method

10. A deadmans pedal

 

1.  Benz & Co

2.  a Coulee

3.  Deoxyribonucleic acid

4. 10 000 square metres

5.  Haematite

6.  Gem variety of orthoclase

7.  Mercury

8.  Atmometer

9.  Both spellings are correct

10. Very close to the batsman

 

Answers to October 2008 Quiz
1. 10

2. A Rift Valley

3. Dystopia

4. Fish River Canyon

5. Dolomite is a type of limestone

6. Ethiopia

7. The empennnage

8. Charles Darwin

9. An Anemometer

 

Answers to August 2008 Quiz

  

1. Phoenix
2. The sea, earthquakes, and horses 
3. Perimorph
4. Methanol 
5. Scum as well as scoria
6. Worms
7. 1931 
8. A brattice
9. A shaft attendant
10. English

 

1. Ruthenium

2. A large block of stone

3. Rocks, stone, debris deposited by a glacier

4. The study of earth's features

5. Turn everything he touched into gold

6. Extreme smallness

7. A stone implement

8. Third man

9. Shaba

10. Critical path analysis

 

 

1. 7 700km
2. Thirteen
3. Gaberone
4. A Heptathlone
5. A nomadic live-stock farmer
6. Silicate
7. Richards Bay
8. Saldanha
9. An ordinal number
10. A Nudist

 

Answers to April 2008 Quiz 

1. A river
2. A system of therapy
3. A musical term
4. Radium
5. Fowl
6. S
7. Mona Lisa
8. Herbert Baker
9. Grandchild
10. A fleet of small ships

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Answers to March 2008 Quiz 

1.  A stock exchange
2. Ingot 
3. Vancouver 
4.  Hans Merensky 
5. 100 km 
6. A gold-digger 
7. Barberton 
8. Timbuktu in Mali 
9. Cobalt
10. Carbon Copy 

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 Answers to February 2008 Quiz

  

1b; 2c; 3a; 4a; 5c; 6. Five – Mali, Malawi,  Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique; 7c; 8. Titanium; 9a; 10a.

 

 

 

1. Fool’s gold

 

2. The Gold Standard

3. Cinnabar

4. Aluminium

5. Barium

6. d.

7. a.

8. a.

9. Castlemaine

10. Mae West

 

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Answers to December's Quiz 

 

1. If you are able to leave a scratch mark on a mineral   with your fingernail, you can conclude that:

a. It is very hard

b. It is harder than 2 to 2½ on Moh’s scale

c It is a mineral softer than 2 to 2½ on Moh’s scale

d. It is talc

 

2. Which is the best source of magnesium?

a. Chicken

b. Peanut butter

c. Carrots

d. Potatoes

 

3. The ten most common minerals make up what percentage of the earth’s crust

a. 90%

b. 50%

c. 20%

d. 10%

 

4. The relative weight of a mineral sample is directly related to the mineral’s

a. Lustre

b. Cleavage

c. Density

d. Hardness

 

5. The  most common magnetic mineral is

a. Hematite

b. Magnetite

c. Halite

d. Uranium

 

6. Many prospectors climbed up the Chilkoot Pass in search of gold. This pass is in…

a. Alaska

b. Nevada

c. Colorado

d. California

 

7. What is the method of washing small amounts of dirt and gravel to look for gold called?  Panning

 

8. He founded the British South Africa Company and made an enormous fortune in diamond mining. What was his name?

a. Cecil Rhodes

b. Ernest Oppenheimer

c. Alfred Beit

 

9. What mining technique involves removing all of the overburden to expose the desired mineral body?  Strip Mining

 

10. What kind of dimension stone is extracted from quarries along the Merensky horizon in South  Africa

a. Marble

b. Slate

c. Granite  

Answers to November's Quiz

 

 

 

1. Nyasaland was the former name of :

1. Malawi
2. Kenya
3. Tanzania

 

2 .The most popular dog in the U.K.

1. German Shepherd
2. Labrador
3. Corgi

 

3. Where is Timbuctu ?

1. Shri Lanka
2. Mali
3. Ghana

 

4. 32.1507 oz troy equals:

1. a..1 pound
2. 1 000 drachm
3. l kilogramme.

 

5. TNT is  the abbreviation of :

1. Nitroglycerine 
2. Trinitrotoluene
3. Trinitrobenzine                              

 

6. 1dwt equals 1.552

1. a.Grammes
2. b.Grains
3. c..Ounces

 

7. Prospector credited with the discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfield:

1. Henry Struben
2. J.B. Taylor
3. George Harrison

 

8. In which country would you find the only deposit  of a  vivid blue-purple exquisite gem crystal identified as a variety of the mineral zoisite?

1. Tanzania
2. Malawi
3. Sudan

 

9. What is MQA an abbreviation of?

1. Mineral Quality Assurance
2. Mines Qualifications Authority
3. Metal Quantity Audit

 

10. The ‘Cousin Jacks’ were:

1. Cornishmen
2. Welshmen
3. Irishmen

 

 

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