The Answers!

• Q 1: What is Purim?
  A: Purim is a Jewish festival observed on the 14th and 15th of Adar (March), instituted to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened them by the schemes of Haman.
  
• Q 2: What is a Karabiner?
  A: A Karabiner is a metal, oval or D shaped coupling link used in conjunction with ropes in mountaineering.
  
• Q 3: What is an Abba?
  A: An Abba is a devotional expression for the Divine Fatherhood, and apparently the chief appellation of God used by Jesus in prayer.
  
• Q 4: What is a Britannia Joint?
  A: The Britannia Joint is a form of electrical joint used for bare overhead wires where great tensile strength is required.
  
• Q 5: What is Lallans?
  A: Lallans is a Lowland Scottish language.
  
• Q 6: What is Axstone?
  A: Axstone is a variety of jade.
  
• Q 7: Kopophobia is the fear of what?
  A: Kopophobia is the fear of fatigue.
  
• Q 8: What is Greystone?
  A: Greystone is a greyish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
  
• Q 9: What is an Anticlinal line?
  A: An Anticlinal line is a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, like the ridge of a roof.
  
• Q 10: What is Carbon Monoxide?
  A: Carbon Monoxide is a colourless, tasteless, odourless, extremely poisonous gas produced when carbon is burned in a limited supply of air.
  
• Q 11: Who was Cole Porter?
  A: Cole Porter was an American composer and song-writer.
  
• Q 12: What is meant by Shrew?
  A: Shrew is a term applied to a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman.
  
• Q 13: What is Antimony?
  A: Antimony is a brittle, silver-white, pentavalent metal element with the symbol Sb and a relative hardness of 4.
  
• Q 14: Who was Ahab?
  A: Ahab was a king of Israel.
  
• Q 15: What is Botany?
  A: Botany is a department of biology, and is itself further divided into various departments such as, Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; Physiological Botany, which deals with the study of their functions and life; and Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc.
  
• Q 16: Who invented the hang glider?
  A: Percy Pilcher
  
• Q 17: What is a Clarinet?
  A: The Clarinet is a woodwind musical instrument of the reed kind invented by Johann Denner in Nuremberg around 1690.
  
• Q 18: What is Anemology?
  A: Anemology is the science of the study of wind.
  
• Q 19: In the BBC television series, 'The Young Ones', which character was 'the classic example of an only child'?
  A: In the BBC television series, 'The Young Ones' 'Rick' was 'the classic example of an only child'.
  
• Q 20: What is Berthierite?
  A: Berthierite is a double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-grey colour.