After Wind and Clouds (Sky), it is the turn of Fire this week.
1) If Vulcan was the Roman God of Fire, who was the Greek God of Fire?
2) What is the highest grade of sacred fire in Zoroastrian Temples?
3) In 1667 Johann Joachim Becher postulated a scientific theory (now defunct) stating that all combustible substances contain within a fire-like element, which is released during the process of combustion. What name did he give to this fire-like element?
4) What happened at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, shortly after midnight on 2nd September 1666?
5) What term describes the property of a substance that will spontaneously ignite in air?
6) The Olympic flame commemorates the theft of fire from Greek God Zeus by Prometheus. In which modern Olympics was the practice of lighting the flame introduced?
7) What does Haines Index measure?
8) What is Pyrolatry?
9) Fahrenheit 451, a cult science fiction by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 describes a futuristic American society. What is the significance of the number 451 in the book’s title?
10) What enzyme is responsible for the glow in fireflies?
1) If Vulcan was the Roman God of Fire, who was the Greek God of Fire?
2) What is the highest grade of sacred fire in Zoroastrian Temples?
3) In 1667 Johann Joachim Becher postulated a scientific theory (now defunct) stating that all combustible substances contain within a fire-like element, which is released during the process of combustion. What name did he give to this fire-like element?
4) What happened at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, shortly after midnight on 2nd September 1666?
5) What term describes the property of a substance that will spontaneously ignite in air?
6) The Olympic flame commemorates the theft of fire from Greek God Zeus by Prometheus. In which modern Olympics was the practice of lighting the flame introduced?
7) What does Haines Index measure?
8) What is Pyrolatry?
9) Fahrenheit 451, a cult science fiction by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 describes a futuristic American society. What is the significance of the number 451 in the book’s title?
10) What enzyme is responsible for the glow in fireflies?
2 comments:
1. Hephastor
5. Pyrophoric
10.Luciferase
1. Hephaestus
2. Atash Behram
3. Phlogiston
4. The Great Fire of London started from there, that night.
5. Auto Combustion
6. 1936
7. Forest Fire probability of spread
8. Worshiping fire
9. 451 degree F is the combustion point of Paper
10. Luciferase
Good quiz... great effort.
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