1c.  Thabana Ntlenyana
2c.  Both towns were named after her
3b.  Cricket

4a.  Lightning

5a.  Kenya

6c.  Penicillin

7b.  Medical

8a.  Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave

9a.  Germany

10a. An oulap

 

     

 

 

Answers to November 2011 Quiz

 

     

    

 

1b. Albert Schweitzer

2a. Iridium

3a. Ground zero

4b. Economists

5c. Demography

6b. Peru

7c.  Dutch

8b. 220 million years

9c.  1000 B.C

10c. Long-stop

 

 

Answers to September 2011 Quiz
1c.  Seiche

2b.  Art or skill
3c.  Savant
4a.  An antelope

5b.  Endomorph

6a.  A cluster resembling a bunch of grapes

7a.  A sousaphone

8a.  Britannia metal

9b.  Sutherland

10c. Selenium

 

Answers to August 2011 Quiz
   

1a.  Blue

2c.  Opal 

3a.  Sir Francis Beaufort 

4b.  1.39 million kilometres

5c.  A stack

6b.  Motor mechanics 

7a.  Germiston

8a.  Gaborone 

9a.  Ruby 

10c. Dendrites

1b.  Mark Twain     

1a.  Velodrome
2a.  Gauteng
3b.  Mules
4c.  Barney Barnato
5a.  1970
6b.  Winzes
7c.  Sir Henry Rider Haggard
8a.  An animal like a zebra
9c.  Welwitschia
10b. Painted Lady

 

1a.   66 years ago

2c.   Roadbuilding

3a.   Dollar

4b.   92 metres

5a.   A drillbit

6c.   Elephant

7c.   Five times

8b.   Googol

9a.   Malawi

10b. Kalahari

1a.  Tupacer

2b.  Glutton

3a.  Swingometer

4a.  By splicing it

5a.  A shape form or structure

6b.  Soccer

7a.  Xenopus

8a.  Revet

9b.  Vespucci

10c. A submarine

1a.  Nyasa

2a.  1666

3c.  A golf course

4b.  Rhinestone

5a.  Inoculate

6a.  By splicing

7c.  Names of South African rivers

8a.  Tumbaga

9b.  Winston Churchill

10a. A frying pan with legs and a long handle

 

   

1b.  Paul Jones

2a.  Jousting

3a.  Qatar

4b.  Calculators

5a.  A bilabong

6b.  Magnesium

7a.  Orange

8a.  Smoky quartz

9c.  Venus

10c. William Webb Ellis

1b.  Immiscible

2a.  Gastrolith

3c.  Edwin Powell Hubble

4c.  A fathom

5b.  Dow Jones

6a.  Asmara

7c.  159 litres

8c.  Pedology

9a.  Lithification

10c. Charles Bannerman

1b.   Gondwana

2c.   116 years

3c.   About 1500

4c.   Mountain of Iron

5b.   1844

6c.   1868

7b.   A drum

8a.   Cameroon

9a.   Democratic Republic of Congo

10a. Mozambique

 

     
1c.  A wild horse

2a.  Smuts

3a.  Gold Coast

4b.  Buffalo

5b.  Ethiopia

6c.  Ormolu

7b.  Contrabassoon

8a.  Coolibah

9a.  Naira

10a. Sodium silicate

 

1a.  FW de Klerk

2c.  Pretoria

3b.  General Louis Botha

4b.  1932

5a.  C R Swart

6c.  Bartholomew Diaz
7a.  South Africa

8c.  Puffadder

9a.  Free State

10a. Bloemfontein

 

1a.  A caldera
2c.  Alexandria

3c.  Eland

4c.  Mars

5c.  Aluminium

6a.  Abijan

7b.  Adze

8a.  Empennage

9b.  Leander Starr Jameson

10c. Bone china

1a.  Natural Gas

2b.  Bobby Fisher

3a.  Panchromatic

4c.  Palladium

5a.  Malawi

6a.  Malachite

7c.  Shale

8a.  16 909 km 

9b.  Tomato

10b. 2 500 000  (The speed of light is 299 792 458 metres/second)
 

 

 1a. monocline 
 2b. s

 3b. silver 
 4c. laughing gas 
 5c. Banjul 

 6c. solar wind 

 7c. Kimberley 

 8a. Mali 
 9b. two

10a. corundum

 

Answers to May 2010 Quiz 

Answers to April 2010 Quiz 

 

1a.  Lithography

2a.  The baby
3c.  Eureka City
4a.  Uranium
5a.  20.12m
6c.  Parbuckling
7a.  A Ship
8c.  Buffalo Bill
9c.  1 000 000 c³
10b. A frog

 

Answers to February 2010 Quiz 

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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