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Diana's QuizAnswers to Diana’s Quiz – December 27, 2014

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 27, 2014

quiz1.  Our solar system is part of the Orion Spiral of the Milky Way.  The Orion Arm is approximately 3,500 light years, or 11,000  parsecs across, and some 10,000 light years, or 3,500 parsecs long.

2.  The correct version is to ‘rack one’s brain’, as in stretching it to find an answer, while ‘to wrack one’s brain’ would imply a state of decay.

3.  A Pasteur pipette is commonly known as a ‘dropper’ or ‘eye dropper.

4.  Swahili, Xhosa and Zulu are Niger-Congo languages that belong to its Bantu group.

5.  On HMS Beagle’s second voyage, the one referred to in his book ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’, Charles Darwin sailed for the South Pacific on December 27, 1831.  The voyage lasted just over 2 months short 5 years, during which time he spent 6 months exploring the Galapagos.

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