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Welcome to our Water Quiz - 22 questions all about water!
Quiz I
- What animal's name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"?
- What form of water is deuterium oxide?
- "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" is a line from which famous poem?
- The name of which food dish translates as 'pepper water'?
- Roughly, how much of the human body is water: 20%, 40%, 60% or 80%?
- The term feng shui literally translates as what two words in English?
- The Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, is in which country?
- Which village in the Cotswolds has the nickname of "Venice of the Cotswolds"?
- Who stars in the title role in the 1998 film The Waterboy?
- What does the 'WD' stand for in the brand name WD40?
- Including the goalkeeper, how many players are there in a water polo team?
- Which artist said: "Water is the driving force in nature"?
- Name the third-largest lake in the Lake District by volume after Windermere and Ullswater?
- What is the Latin word for water?
- Which American rock band is sometimes referred to as CCR?
- Water boils at what temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?
- Which flowering plant is derived from the Greek meaning 'water vessel'?
- How much of the Earth's surface is covered by water: 51%, 61%, or 71%?
- Which area of water separates India from Sri Lanka?
- In 2500, every continent on Earth is underwater as the result of sea levels rising is the plot of which 1995 film?
- Holme Pierrepont Country Park, home of The National Water Sports Centre is located near which British city?
- St Ann's Well is an ancient warm natural spring in which Derbyshire town?
Answers:
- Hippopotamus
- Heavy water
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- Mulligatawny soup
- 60%
- Wind-water
- Venezuela
- Bourton-on-the-Water
- Adam Sandler
- Water Displacement
- Seven
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Coniston Water
- Aqua
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- 212 degrees
- Hydrangea
- 71%
- Palk Strait
- Waterworld
- Nottingham
- Buxton