5 Questions To Test Your Brain

Radio 4 is searching for the Brain of Britain. Do you have what it takes?

Below are 5 questions from 2014’s contest.

The answers can be found at the end of the page, and according to the quiz rules, if you answer all 5 correctly, you get a bonus point.

Question 1:

In which major London building did Margaret Thatcher die?

Question 2:

Which two Russian cities are the end points of the Trans-Siberian highway?

Question 3:

“My name means the shape I am, and a good handsome shape it is too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape almost.”

Which character tells Alice this in 'Through the Looking Glass'?

Question 4:

What is the name for the radiation theoretically emitted from just outside the event horizon of a black hole?

Question 5:

An iatrogenic disease is an adverse medical condition arising in which particular circumstances?

The Answers

1 - The Ritz Hotel

2 - Vladivostok and St Petersburg

3 - Humpty Dumpty

4 - Hawking Radiation

5 - It's as a result of medical treatment for other diseases e.g. hospital acquired infections and unwanted results of drug testing.

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