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The Answers!
- Q 1: Who was Aime Bonpland?
A: Aime Bonpland was a French botanist.
- Q 2: Who was Jacques Thibaud?
A: Jacques Thibaud was a French violinist.
- Q 3: Enochlophobia is the fear of what?
A: Enochlophobia is the fear of crowds.
- Q 4: Who invented the hang glider?
A: Percy Pilcher
- Q 5: What is an Occluded Front?
A: An Occluded Front is a weather front formed when a cold front catches up with a warm front.
- Q 6: Who was Cyrus the Great?
A: Cyrus the Great was a ruler who released the Jews from Babylon and allowed them to rebuild Jerusalem.
- Q 7: What is the capital of Nepal?
A: Katmandu is the capital of Nepal.
- Q 8: What is a Cant Hook?
A: A Cant Hook is a wooden lever with a movable iron hook near the end used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc, particularly in the USA.
- Q 9: What is a Loch?
A: A Loch is a Scottish term applied to both lakes and inlets.
- Q 10: What is a Tatouay?
A: The Tatouay is a kind of armadillo remarkable for the undefended state of its tail which is devoid of the bony rings that inclose it in other armadillos.
- Q 11: Who was Sir Humphry Davy?
A: Sir Humphry Davy was an English chemist.
- Q 12: What is a Bali-Song?
A: A Bali-Song is a design of folding knife with the handle in two parts, hinged separately at the blade.
- Q 13: What is Alum Schist?
A: Alum Schist is a variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
- Q 14: What is Alectryomancy?
A: Alectryomancy is a form of divination using a cock and grains of corn.
- Q 15: Who was Constantine I?
A: Constantine I was a Roman emperor.
- Q 16: Who was Aloys Sprenger?
A: Aloys Sprenger was an Austrian Orientalist.
- Q 17: What is a Karabiner?
A: A Karabiner is a metal, oval or D shaped coupling link used in conjunction with ropes in mountaineering.
- Q 18: What is the capital of Turkey?
A: Ankara is the capital of Turkey.
- Q 19: What is Miargyrite?
A: Miargyrite is a mineral of an iron-black colour, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.
- Q 20: In classical mythology, who was Abas?
A: Abas was the son of Celeus and Metaneira.
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