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Answers to August 2010 Quiz
1a. A caldera
2c. Alexandria
3c. Eland
4c. Mars
5c. Aluminium
6a. Abijan
7b. Adze
8a. Empennage
9b. Leander Starr Jameson
10c. Bone china
Answers to July 2010 Quiz
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)
Answers to June 2010 Quiz
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
1a. De Beers
2c. Any foreigner who was attracted by the gold of the Witwatersrand
3b. The Zeederberg coaches
4c. Johannes Rissik and Christiaan Johannes Joubert
5a. An acacia tree with yellow bark
6c. Fred and Henry Struben
7b. Tom McLachlan
8a. Pilgrims Rest
9a. Cornwall
10c. Arabia
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
Answers to January 2010 Quiz
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
Answers to December 2009 Quiz
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
Answers to November 2009 Quiz
1c. Lambaréné
2b. Columbite
3a. Johannesburg
4b. Gun
5c. Squatters
6b. Magnesium
7a. Peru
8a. Freetown
9c. Pula
10a. George Stephenson
Answers to October 2009 Quiz
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 September 2009 Quiz
1. Verdigris
2. Oryx
3. Epigram
4. Wankel
5. Retrorocket
6. Coffer Dam
7. Peat
8. Ndjamena
9. Na
10. Pollyanna
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
Answers to July 2009 Quiz
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
Answers to June 2009 Quiz
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
Answers to March 2009 Quiz
1. Rasputin
2. Indonesia
3. Plusec
4. Radio beacon
5. Cribbing
6. Fat
7. A musical instrument
8. A legendary mariner
9. Study geometry
10. Thunderbox
Answers to February 2009 Quiz
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. Nile
2. Caspian Sea
3. Asia
4. Dead Sea
5. 24 902
6. 66 600
7. 1000
8. Nickel
9. Africa
10. About 365 days
Answers to December 2008 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
Answers to November 2008 Quiz
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
- Phoenix
- The sea, earthquakes, and horses
- Perimorph
- Methanol
- Scum as well as scoria
- Worms
- 1931
- A brattice
- A shaft attendant
- English
Answers to July 2008 Quiz
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
Answers to June 2008 Quiz
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
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
Answers to February 2008 Quiz
1b; 2c; 3a; 4a; 5c; 6. Five – Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique; 7c; 8. Titanium; 9a; 10a.
Answers to January 2008 Quiz
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
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. The southern continents Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia and Peninsular India at one time was one landmass called:
a. Monomotapa
b. Gondwana
c. Utopia
2. Porphyry is associated with the colour:
a. Blue
b. Red
c. Purple
3. Where would you look for Mapungubwe?
a. Limpopo Province
b. North West Province
c. Botswana
4. A sextant is:
a. An instrument used in measuring altitudes of celestial bodies
b. An instrument measuring the movements of plates in the lithosphere
c. An instrument used in measuring the speed of satellites
5. The vertical support of a winding staircase:
a. A column
b. A strut
c. A newel
6. The solution of gold in mercury:
a. Concentrate
b. Amalgam
c. Aurifer
7. Gangue
a. Barren rock accompanying an orebody
b. Residue of gold processing
c. Coarse-grained metamorphic rock
8. Grey to white metallic element extracted from wolframite:
a. Tungsten
b. Niobium
c. Arsenic
9. Removal of substances in solution or in suspension from upper and middle layers of soil by water percolating downward or horizontally
a. Flotation
b. Eluviation
c. Filtration
10. An order of mammals that includes man, apes and monkeys are called:
a. Primates
b. Vertebrates
c. Herbivores
Answers to October's Newsletter Quiz
1. Nyasaland was the former name of :
- Malawi
- Kenya
- Tanzania
2 .The most popular dog in the U.K.
- German Shepherd
- Labrador
- Corgi
3. Where is Timbuctu ?
- Shri Lanka
- Mali
- Ghana
4. 32.1507 oz troy equals:
- a..1 pound
- 1 000 drachm
- l kilogramme.
5. TNT is the abbreviation of :
- Nitroglycerine
- Trinitrotoluene
- Trinitrobenzine
6. 1dwt equals 1.552
- a.Grammes
- b.Grains
- c..Ounces
7. Prospector credited with the discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfield:
- Henry Struben
- J.B. Taylor
- 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?
- Tanzania
- Malawi
- Sudan
9. What is MQA an abbreviation of?
- Mineral Quality Assurance
- Mines Qualifications Authority
- Metal Quantity Audit
10. The ‘Cousin Jacks’ were:
- Cornishmen
- Welshmen
- Irishmen
Answers to our September newsletter quiz
- Yes, in Kern County, California USA. Johannesburg, California, a gold mining town, founded in 1886, was named by miners who had previously worked on the Witwatersrand Gold Fields in South Africa.
- Yes, Timbuctu, a town in Mali was called The City of Gold. Between the 5th and 13 centuries, the empire of Mali flourished because of its trade in gold.
- Karat indicates the proportion of solid gold in an alloy based on a total of 24 parts. Carat is the unit of weight used for precious stones.
- 4. 3 500.
- It is believed that Cornish miners used to address each other by the old greeting of ’cousin’ and Jack was the most popular Christian name in Cornwall. Early Cornish miners on the Witwatersrand often enquired about job opportunities for their ‘Cousin Jack’ back home.
- It is the deliberate or avoidable destruction of the natural environment as by pollutants.
- 1 000 000
- Cordite
- A fault
- The heart. As it pumps 4.5 litres of blood per minute through the circulatory system, it works twice as hard as the leg muscles of a sprinter or the arm muscles of a boxing champion.
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