This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Things Science Can’t Fully Explain
Why we sleep
Why we dream
Why cats purr
Placebo effect
How paracetamol works
Gravity
Why it takes more genes to make a tomato than a human
Again this year we’re beginning each month with five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. They’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers, so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as have a bit of fun.
December Quiz Questions: 17th Century England
Who is celebrated for having failed to blow up the King in 1605?
What was given to King Charles II in 1661 and abandoned by the British in 1684?
Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell?
For what is Nell Gwyn famous?
How many monarchs reigned over England in 17th century?
This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Medical Discoveries
Blood groups
Transplant surgery
Antibiotics
Circulatory system
Germ theory
Insulin
Vaccination
Anaesthesia
Oral contraception
Blood transfusion
Eccentric looks at life through the thoughts of a retired working thinker
