Answers to Quiz - 57

1. What is the name of the stretch of sea that separates mainland England from the Isle of Wright?

The Solent

2. What term in archaeology and anthropology is used to describe the transition from a nomadic way of life to a permanent settlement?

Sedentism

3. What is the name of the vast depression covering as much as 40% of the surface of Mars, believed to be the largest asteroid impact crater known anywhere in the solar system?

Borealis Basin

4. Who is a pescatarian?

A person who is a vegetarian with the exception of eating fish

5. Which civilization is credited with having created the first known pottery in the world?

Jomon people in Japan, dating back to 14th Century BC

6. What is the name of the new theory developed in 2004 to explain the origin of the planets in our solar system?

Nice Model, after the city of Nice in France, where the scientists met to put forward the theory

7. In honour of whose martyrdom is the bull running ceremony observed in the streets of the Spanish town of Pamplona every July?

Saint Fermin

8. What are Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium and Nectaris?

Prominent craters on the moon

9. Name the English intellectual, pamphleteer and inventor who had a great influence on American and French revolutions through such powerful works like Common Sense and Rights of Man.

Thomas Paine

10. What is the name of the former landmass in the North Sea that connected Great Britain and mainland Europe?

Doggerland