4. I have at least one open end.

RIDDLES Who am I?
ANSWER: Manometer
Riddle #1 Riddle #6
1. I am a single digit number and I am odd. 1. I am a white, solid, inorganic substance.
2. The sum of the digits of my square is equal to me. 2. I am the only exception in the family as far as
3. Mind you I am myself a square. colour is concerned.
4. I am the last digit in the decimal system 3. I am made up of a metal cation and a non-metal
5. I determine a nonagon. anion.
Who am I? 4. My metal cation can be found at the tail end of the
ANSWER: 9 first d-transition series.
Riddle #2 5. When my anion combines with a proton a
1. I am an organic compound substance which smells like rotten egg is formed.
2. I have a symmetrical molecule. Who am I?
3. My functional group enables me to form a ANSWER: Zinc sulphide/ZnS
crystalline derivative with 2,4- Riddle #7
dinitrophenylhydrazine. 1. I am a polygon.
4. I do not react with Tollens’ or Fehling’s reagent. 2. I have a fixed center of symmetry as well as a
5. I have a carbonyl group that sits right in the fixed center of rotation.
middle of the compound. 3. I have four of everything, sides, angles and
6. If my backbone consists of five carbons in an open vertices.
chain, then, 4. I have four axes of symmetry.
Who am I? 5. I am as regular as any polygon can be.
ANSWER: 3-Pentanone 6. My diagonals are congruent and bisect each other
Riddle #3 perpendicularly.
1. I am an isotope. Who am I?
2. As isotopes go, I am one of the lightest. ANSWER: Square
3. I am an isotone of 1. Riddle #8
4. I am named for the Greek god of the sun. 1. In the linguistic sense I am the systematic
representation of language in written form
Who am I? 2. In biology I am the first step of gene expression
ANSWER: Helium-3 in which a particular segment of DNA is copied
Riddle #4 into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
1. I am a unique organ in animals 3. I can be measured and detected in a variety of
2. My structure can vary among the different animal ways
species 4. Some viruses, such as HIV, have the ability to
3. In humans, other mammals and birds I am divided reverse my process.
into four chambers 5. As opposed to DNA replication, I result in an
4. I possess four valves that ensure unidirectional RNA complement that includes the nucleotide
blood flow and prevent backflow of blood uracil
5. One of the simplest met WHO AM I?
6. hods of assessing my condition is to listen to the ANSWER: Transcription
sound I produced using a stethoscope Riddle #9
Who am I? 1. I am the simplest geometrical entity
ANSWER: Heart 2. I have no dimensions as I have no size.
Riddle #5 3. However I have coordinates
1. I am a measuring instrument. 4. I am the basic building block of geometrical
2. In one embodiment of me, I am a liquid-in-glass figures such as lines and segments
device. 5. You can view me as the smallest circle possible.
3. I may be made of a u-shaped tube. 6. You still do not get the point?
Who am I?
ANSWER: POINT
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Riddle #10
7. I am a disturbance that transports energy.
8. I am a type of wave.
9. A common example of me is a mechanical wave.
10. I am characterized by oscillations parallel to the
propagation direction.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Longitudinal wave
Riddle #11
1. I am a kind of test
2. I was first introduced by Gregor Mendel,
3. I can help determine whether a dominant
phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous for a
specific allele.
4. I am the type of cross that involves breeding the
individual in question with another individual that
expresses a recessive version of the same trait.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Test Cross
Riddle #12
1. In physics, I am one of the fundamental states of
matter.
2. To the biologist I am the pale-yellow liquid
component of blood.
3. I normally hold the blood cells in whole blood in
suspension.
4. I make up about 55% of the body's total blood
volume.
5. As a blood product, I am prepared from blood
donations used in blood transfusions.
Who am I?
ANSWER: (Blood) Plasma
Riddle #13
1. I am a device for energy conversion.
2. I operate between two temperatures.
3. The efficiency with which I convert energy depends on
the temperatures between which I operate.
4. I convert energy of disordered motion to an ordered
form of energy.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Heat engine
Riddle #14
1. I am a four digit number.
2. I am an even number with even digits.
3. My first and last digits are identical.
4. My second and third digits are also identical.
5. My first digit is a prime.
6. My second digit is the square of the first digit.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 2442
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Riddle #15
1. I am a ternary compound of penta-atomic
molecules
2. All the elements in my molecule are non-metals
3. The oxidation state of the central atom, located in
my anion is +5.
4. I am produced on industrial scale by the Oswald
Process.
5. My preparation therefore involves, basically,
catalytic oxidation of ammonia.
6. I contain one ionisable hydrogen
Who am I?
ANSWER: HNO3/Trioxonitrate (V) acid
Riddle 16
1. I am a collection of some basic statements.
2. All the relevant conclusions and predictions are made
from these statements.
3. My basic statements are also referred to as postulates
in certain circles.
4. I describe the physical behaviour of all matter with
emphasis to gases.
5. I have five postulates, the last one giving an alternative
meaning or definition of temperature.
6. I am also able to explain Brownian movement.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Kinetic Theory of Matter/Gases or
Kinetic-Molecular Theory of Matter/Gases
Riddle #17
1. I am a trigonometric measure.
2. I am associated with a bearing.
3. I am a measure of rotation.
4. I may be right, acute, reflexive or obtuse.
5. My measure is negative if you follow the hand of the
clock and positive in the opposite direction.
6. You find me in polygons.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Angle
Riddle #18
1. I am an optical device.
2. I have a reflecting surface.
3. I form virtual images of real objects.
4. The image I form of an object is as far behind me as
the object is in front of me.
Who am I?
ANSWER Plane mirror
Riddle #19
1. I am a vital association, especially, for terrestrial
ecosystem function.
2. I can be contrasted with interspecific competition, in
which each species experiences reduced fitness, and
exploitation,
3. Many of my associations involve species living closely Who am I?
together ANSWER: Exterior Angle
4. A well-known example of me is the Mycorrhizal
association between certain plant roots and fungi, Riddle #24
5. In my association, two organisms of different species 1. I am an organic compound.
exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits 2. My molecules on paper appear as a regular polygon.
from the activity of the other 3. In real practice my molecules have a puckered
WHO AM I? structure.
ANSWER Mutualism 4. All my carbon atoms try to maintain the tetrahedral
Riddle #20 angle.
1. I am a measuring instrument. 5. I have chair and boat conformations.
2. I am sometimes used to measure mass. 6. If I am a hydrocarbon of six carbons then.
3. But I am designed to measure force. Who am I?
4. I operate by Hooke, never by crook. ANSWER: Cyclohexane
Who am I?
ANSWER: Spring balance Riddle #25
Riddle #21 1. I consist of a complicated system of membranous
1. My name is derived from a Greek word that means channels.
heavy. 2. My membranes are usually interconnected with one
2. With atomic mass of over 130 most would agree that I another to form a complex network.
am a heavy element. 3. I connect the plasma membrane with the nuclear
3. I am a metal discovered in 1808, and a member of the membrane.
Main Group elements. 4. Depending on the presence or absence of ribosomes on
4. Because of my chemical reactivity, I do not occur in my surface, I might me rough or smooth.
the uncombined state in nature. 5. My rough members are the sites for protein synthesis
5. My tetraoxosulphate (VI) salt is a white solid used in while my smooth members are the site for the synthesis
the manufacture of white paint. of lipids and steroids.
6. The aqueous suspension of the same solid is referred to WHO AM I?
as a meal in X-ray diagnostic work. ANSWER: Endoplasmic (reticulum)
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ba or barium (metal) Riddle #26
1. In the broadest sense, I am an organism that is a
RIDDLE 22 competitor of humanity
2. It is also possible for me to be a bother or nuisance in
one setting but beneficial, or acceptable in another.
1. I am a field. 3. I am used to refer to any prolific animal or plant
2. I am described by field lines. 4. I could also be a person or thing that irritates,
3. My field lines are closest together where my field especially by imposing itself when it is not wanted
strength is greatest. 5. I am commonly used to refer to any organism that
4. My field lines have no beginning and no end. damages crops, injures or irritates livestock or man, or
5. I am electromagnetic. reduces the fertility of land
Who am I? WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Magnetic field ANSWER: A Pest

Riddle #27
1. I am associated with simple harmonic motion
Riddle #23 2. I am associated with functions especially with trigonometric
1 I have an external point of view.
functions
2 I am associated with polygons even though I am
3. for y = sin(x), a am 2π
outside the polygon.
4. for y = tan(x), I am π
3 I am a supplement to the interior angle of a polygon.
5. I am generally an interval after which a function repeats itself
4 For a triangle, I am the sum of the interior opposite
6. I satisfy the relation f(x=T) = f(x)
angles.
WHO AM I?
5 For a square I am a right kind of angle.
ANSWER: Period
6 For any polygon, the sum of my siblings is four right
Riddle #28
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1. I am a process in geometry.
2. With me, there is no need for a protractor.
3. All you need are compasses and rulers.
4. I am in the bisection business so far as angles and
segments are concerned.
5. I am what contractors do.
Who am I?
ANSWER: CONSTRUCTION
Riddle #29
1. My name in Greek means self-feeding.
2. I am an organism that produces complex organic
compounds from simple substances present in my
surroundings.
3. I can use light as an energy source, or utilize
electron donors as a source of energy.
4. I am the producer in a food chain.
5. My examples include green plants, algae and
certain bacteria.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Autotroph
Riddle #30
1. I am a type of electromagnetic radiation.
2. I am capable of ejecting electrons from atoms.
3. I am produced when energetic charged particles
are decelerated.
4. I am also produced when inner shell electrons in
an atom make transitions to lower levels.
Who am I?
ANSWER: X-ray
Riddle #31
1. I am a solid metal with a difference.
2. I am not just one metal element but a solid
solution of two metal elements.
3. My colour, which is normally a shade of yellow,
depends on the proportions of the two metals.
4. One of my constituent elements has the atomic
number of 29 and atomic mass of 63.5
5. My other element, a blue-white metal has the
atomic number of 30 and atomic mass of 65.4
6. I am used in making all kinds of household items
and musical instruments.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Brass
Riddle #32
1. I am a natural phenomenon.
2. Although I am associated with particular
substances,
3. I can be induced to occur in substances that are
not associated with me.
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4. I am associated with the emission of small
particles such as electrons and photons from
atomic nuclei.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Radioactivity
Riddle #33
1. My name does not immediately imply energy
change but that is what I am.
2. I could be of negative or positive value.
3. I am told the more negative I am the more
desirable I am.
4. Those elements on the left of the Periodic Table
tend to have my positive values.
5. I measure how readily or otherwise an anion can
be created from a neutral atom.
6. If I am usually recorded in kJmol-1 then,
Who am I?
ANSWER: Electron Affinity
Riddle #34
1. So far as Mathematics and Physics are concerned,
I am a force to reckon with.
2. I am credited with the development of Calculus.
3. I am a great scientist of the seventeen century.
4. I have several laws to my credit.
5. My first name is Isaac.
6. I am a measure of force.
Who am I?
ANSWER:Newton
Riddle #35
1. We got our name from a Latin word which means
“divided body”.
2. We are among the most diverse groups of animals
on the planet
3. We may be found in nearly all environments,
although only a small number of our species reside
in the oceans.
4. Our adults typically move about by walking,
flying, or sometimes swimming.
5. Some of our species are regarded as pests by
Humans, and there are attempts to control those
using insecticides and a host of other techniques.
WHO ARE WE?
ANSWER: Insects
Riddle #36
1. I made an important discovery in 1846.
2. The discovery has been formulated into a Law
named after me.
3. My first name is Thomas.
 4. I measured the relative speed with which a gas
in a sealed container would leak out of a small
hole
5. I realized that in relative terms the molar mass
is the determining factor.
6. In recent times the phenomenon I investigated
is mixed up with the process of one gas
diffusing into another.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Thomas Graham
Riddle #37
1. I derive my name from a Greek word which
means to "to grow or increase"
2. I am present in all parts of a plant, although in
very different concentrations
3. You may refer to me as a class of plant hormones
4. I am the first of the major plant hormones to be
discovered
5. I coordinate development at all levels in plants,
from the cellular level, through organs, and
ultimately to the whole plant.
6. I am commonly referred to as IAA or Indole
Acetic Acid
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Auxin
Riddle #38
1. I am a polygon of four sides.
2. My opposite sides are parallel and congruent.
3. My diagonals are congruent but not
perpendicular.
4. All my angles are congruent
5. I have the right type of angles.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Rectangle
Riddle #39
1. I am a heavenly body.
2. I am visible in the night sky.
3. I am a planet.
4. Indeed, besides the Moon, I am the brightest
object in the night sky.
5. I am the hottest planet in the Solar System.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Venus
Riddle #40
1. We are neighbours.
2. We are a pair of angles.
3. We have a common vertex.
4. We also have a common side between us.
5. On a straight line we are supplementary.
6. Remember we sit next to each other.
Who are we?
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ANSWER: Adjacent Angles
Riddle #41
1. I am a type of disturbance.
2. I propagate through material media.
3. I can transport energy without transporting the
particles of the medium.
4. I cause the particles of the medium in which I
propagate to oscillate.
5. I cause the particles of the medium to oscillate
perpendicular to the direction in which I
propagate.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Transverse mechanical wave
Riddle #42
1. I am an organometallic compound.
2. I am also a natural product.
3. I serve as a catalyst in a transformation process.
4. I have something in common with cytochromes
except that our functions are different.
5. I help to transform CO2 and water into a
carbohydrate.
6. If my metal is the second member of Group (II)
elements, then,
Who am I?
ANSWER: Chlorophyll.
Riddle #43
1. I am a genus of common saprobic fungi on
plants and a specialized parasite on animals.
2. I am found on a wide variety of organic
substrates,
3. I grow as filamentous, branching hyphae that
generally lack cross-walls (i.e. coenocytic).
4. My hyphae may form a fluffy mass, which is
whitish in colour.
5. I am commonly referred to as bread mould.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Rhizopus
Riddle #44
1. I am a magnetic material.
2. I become strongly magnetized in an external
magnetic field.
3. I am characterized by a hysteresis loop.
4. My hysteresis loop is thin;
5. Therefore, I am used in electromagnets.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Soft ferromagnetic material
Riddle #45
1. I regard myself as a derivative of a mother
compound.
 2. My mother compound and I both give
effervescence with an aqueous solution of
sodium hydrogen trioxocarbonate (IV).
3. The presence of a chlorine atom in my
molecule makes me a derivative.
4. My mother has a total of 3 carbon atoms.
5. The presence of chlorine in me enhances my
ability to ionize, much better than my mother.
6. There are two possible positions but the
chlorine in me is positioned on the carbon
where its effect is less.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 3–Chloropropanoic acid
(ClCH2CH2COOH)
iuj
Riddle #46
1. I am a three digit odd number.
2. My digits are just two consecutive integers.
3. My digits are simply binomial coefficients.
4. I am a square of another set of binomial
coefficients.
5. My first and last digits are identical and an
identity.
6. The sum of my digits is four
Who am I?
ANSWER: 121
Riddle #47
1. I am a short, thin filament.
2. I am found in fungi and in the division
Bryophyta.
3. I may serve either as a feeding organ, or
anchor a thallus to its substratum.
4. I am the principal feeding organ in Rhizopus.
5. In mosses and liverworts I attach the
gametophyte to the substratum.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Rhizoid
Riddle #48
1. I am a measuring device.
2. I come in a variety of designs, but all follow
the same basic principle.
3. Types of me include the Bubble, the Mass, the
Ganong's and the Darwin's.
4. I am sometimes known as a transpirometer.
5. I am used to measure the rate of water loss
from a plant (transpiration).
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Potometer
Riddle #49
1. I am a force field.
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2. I am described by an inverse distance
potential.
3. I am always attractive.
4. My sources are massive particles.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Gravitational field
Riddle #50
1. I am a three digit number between 100 and 200.
2. My second digit is the product of two prime
numbers.
3. My last digit is the square of an odd prime digit.
4. I am myself an exact square..
5. The number formed by my first two digits is a
square.
6. The sum of my digits is also an exact square.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 169
Riddle #51
1. I help to kick out peer pressure, because I hate it.
2. But I am not in the Police service or the military.
3. I am only a scientific law helping gases to
maintain order among them.
4. I ensure that unless there is a chemical reaction,
each gas retains its belongings or physical
property as much as possible when they assemble.
5. I am particular about individual pressures.
6. I am named after the famous scientist who
discovered me and also researched into the
composition of matter.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressure.
Riddle #52
1. I am an experiment in science.
2. I was first conducted by Michael Faraday.
3. So I am named after him.
4. I demonstrate that electric charge resides on the
surface of a conductor.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Faraday ice pail experiment
Riddle #53
1. I am a binary compound with triatomic molecules.
2. My constituent elements are non–metallic.
3. I am formed when my central native element is
burnt in air but I can also be prepared in the
laboratory by several methods.
4. I am therefore an oxide, and an acidic gas with a
pungent smell.
5. I dissolve in water to produce an acid that has
never been isolated as a pure substance.
6. Sulphur is the central atom in my bent molecule.
Who am I?
ANSWER: SO2 or Sulphur (IV) oxide.
Riddle #54 5. I could be made by catalytic oxidation of a
1. I am a polygonal figure and to be precise a hydrocarbon, I could also be obtained by the dry
quadrilateral. distillation of wood.
2. I am neither a parallelogram nor a rhombus. 6. I am the smallest member in my homologous
3. My opposite angles are supplementary. series that is characterized by the OH functional
4. I am normally found in a circle and hence my group.
name. Who am I?
5. A square is an example of me. ANSWER: Methanol (CH3OH).
Who am I? Riddle #58
ANSWER: Cyclic Quadrilateral 1. I am a mode of a vibrating string.
Riddle #55 2. I am not the fundamental mode.
1. I am a biological process. 3. My wavelength is one-third the string length.
2. I involve a visible and relatively abrupt change in 4. I have five nodes.
an animal's body structure through cell growth and Who am I?
differentiation. ANSWER: Fifth overtone
3. My process is always accompanied by a change of Riddle #59
habitat or behaviour. 1. I am a unique point in the coordinate plane
4. I may be complete or incomplete. 2. All points in the plane are determined with respect
5. The groups of organisms that go through me to me.
include some insects, amphibians, molluscs, 3. I separate the positive numbers from the negative
crustaceans, and echinoderms. ones on the axes.
Who am I? 4. I am in a sense a starting point.
ANSWER: Metamorphosis 5. I am the point of intersection of the axes.
Riddle #56 Who am I?
1. I am a type of arthropod ANSWER: Origin
2. I am a prey for a variety of organisms, including Riddle #60
terrestrial vertebrates 1. I am a binary operation on a set of subsets.
3. The evolutionary relationship between me and 2. Mind you there are two of us with quite similar
other animals remainS unclear properties.
4. Other terrestrial arthropods, such as centipedes, 3. I have an identity which is quite an empty boast.
millipedes, scorpions, and spiders, are sometimes 4. I normally combine two sets to create a larger set.
confused with me. 5. My name suggests I am a marriage of
5. Some of my members are pollinators and are convenience.
essential to the life-cycle of many flowering plant Who am I?
species ANSWER: Union
Who am I? Riddle #61
ANSWER: Insect 1. My name was first coined by Theodor Schwann in
the early 19th century.
2. He coined my name from a Greek word meaning
digestion.
Riddle #57 3. I am one of three principal protein-degrading, or
1. I am an organic compound made up of hexa– proteolytic, enzymes in the digestive system.
atomic molecules. 4. I am stored at very low temperatures to prevent
2. I am not a hydrocarbon since I have an oxygen autolysis (self-digestion).
atom in my molecule. 5. I am secreted in an inactive form known as
3. I am a colourless liquid, with a boiling point less pepsinogen.
than 70oC. Who am I?
4. Although I am an important raw material in ANSWER: Pepsin
industry and also a good solvent, I am highly toxic Riddle #62
to man. 1. I am a common chemical process found in nature,
laboratory and industry.
2. I am one of a set of twins.
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3. I and my twin love each other so much that we are 1. A tooth of an animal may have just one or
always together. multiples of me.
4. But in any conversation and action we oppose 2. I am also a type of organ in vascular plants.
each other. 3. In most vascular plant species I enter into
5. In terms of acquisition of property, while I am mutualistic association with certain fungi to form
always bringing something home, my twin is mycorrhizae.
rather giving out family property. 4. I can also protect the environment by holding the
6. We are visible when hydrocarbons burn in air or soil to prevent soil erosion.
rusting of iron is taking place 5. The radicle is my embryonic part of the seed.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: Oxidation. ANSWER: Root
Riddle #63 Riddle #68
1. I am a physical quantity. 1. I am a branch of physics.
2. I am determined by force and area. 2. I used to be thought of as separate branches of
3. I am measured in pascals. physics.
4. I am given by the product of modulus and strain. 3. I encompass all the phenomena related to electric
Who am I? charges.
ANSWER: Stress 4. I also encompass all phenomena related to electric
Riddle #64 and magnetic fields.
1. I am a device for energy transformation. Who am I?
2. I operate between two temperatures. ANSWER: Electromagnetism
3. I accept thermal energy at a high temperature and Riddle #69
4. Reject thermal energy at a lower temperature. 1. I am a popular inorganic substance
5. I do useful mechanical work in the process. 2. I am not sweet, but I have a bitter and sharp taste
Who am I? 3. You dare not taste me because I will give your
ANSWER: Heat engine tongue a very strong burning sensation
Riddle #65 4. I am a very soluble inorganic substance
1. I am the standard unit for angular measure. 5. My solution is used in the production of soap.
2. There are 2π of me in a complete circle. 6. A drop of me in a blue flame will impart a bright
3. I am not measured by degrees. orange-yellow colour.
4. I am the measure of a central angle whose sides Who am I?
intercept an arc whose length is the radius of the ANSWER: Sodium hydroxide / caustic soda /
circle. NaOH.
5. I am 180°/π Riddle #70
Who am I? 1. I am a process that takes place in the angiosperms.
2. I am a necessary step in the reproduction of flowering
ANSWER: RADIAN plants.
Riddle #66 3. I am important in horticulture and agriculture, because
1. I belong to the couples’ Fellowship fruiting is dependent on fertilization, which is the
2. As a couple we individually make sure we are result of me.
compatible 4. More commonly, my process requires reliable vectors.
3. We assist each other all the time Who am I?
4. Any differences disappear when as a couple a ANSWER: Pollination
bridge is established between us. Riddle #71
5. As a couple we never can re–establish the love 1. I am a relation which is true for all values of the
between us once that love fades away variable.
6. As a couple we are able to convert chemical 2. I am also a means of identification.
energy into electrical energy 3. I am associated with binary operations.
Who am I? 4. For union of sets, I am an empty barrel which makes
ANSWER: Primary Voltaic cell. the most noise.
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6. For addition of real numbers, I am nothing to write 4. I am most pronounced when the wavelength of the
home about. wave is comparable to the obstacle or aperture.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: IDENTITY ANSWER: Diffraction
Riddle #72 Riddle #77
1. I am a rule of association between two sets. 1. I am ass3ociated with the atmosphere.
2. I am definitely a relation. 2. I am supposed to be coloured and I wonder why?
3. I am not many to many, and neither am I one to many. 3. I occur because of the love of some substances for
4. I may however be many to one or one to one. the long wavelength portion of the
5. Examples of me may be linear, quadratic or electromagnetic radiation.
trigonometric 4. The same substances allow light and UV radiation
Who am I? from the sun to reach the earth but stop the
ANSWER: Function infrared formed from escaping.
Riddle #73 5. The most notorious of the substances is carbon
1. I am a multicellular diploid eukaryote. (IV) oxide.
2. I may be a minute rudimentary plant contained within 6. My virtual colour is green.
a seed or an archegonium. Who am I?
3. I could also be a young animal in an early phase of ANSWER: Greenhouse Effect.
development in the egg or the womb. Riddle #78
4. The science of the formation and development of me 5. I am a geometry of some sort.
is known as embryology. 6. Unlike Euclidean geometry, algebraic methods play a
Who am I? prominent role.
ANSWER: Embryo. 7. I am involved with geometry of straight lines, curves
Riddle #74 and circles.
1 I am an organic compound with the elements 8. Key to me is the representation of a point in the plane
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in my molecule. in terms of coordinates.
2 I am quite rich in functional groups. 9. I have two perpendicular lines called axes intersecting
3 I have two double bonds and an alkanol in my in a point called the origin.
molecule. Who am I?
4 I have a backbone of six carbons in an open chain. ANSWER: Coordinate Geometry
5 My first carbon which carries the alkanol Riddle #79
functional group is just before the first double 1. I am a type of fluid.
bond 2. I am comparable to the blood in certain features.
6 My second double bond is found on the fourth 3. I am the immediate fluid around the cells of the body.
carbon. 4. I may pick up bacteria and bring them to nodes where
What is my systematic name? they are destroyed.
ANSWER: 2,4-Hexadien-1-ol Or Hexa- 5. I am the fluid\ that circulates throughout the lymphatic
2,4-dien-1-ol. system.
Riddle #75 Who am I?
1. I am a particle. ANSWER: Lymph
2. I am emitted in certain nuclear reactions. Riddle #80
3. I am positively charged. 1. I am an inorganic substance.
4. I am called first. 2. My hexa-atomic molecules could exist in the
5. I have a mass of 4 amu. vapour state or solid state.
Who am I? 3. In the vapour state I am supposed to be a covalent
ANSWER: Alpha particle compound.
Riddle #76 4. My central atom, which is in oxidation state of +5
is an element of Group 5 or 15 of the Periodic
1. I am a natural phenomenon.
Table.
2. I am associated with waves. 5. My other five atoms are identical, each with
3. I occur when waves encounter obstacles or atomic mass of 35.5.
apertures. 6. I am used in converting alkanoic acids into
alkanoyl chlorides.
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 Who am I? 5. I worked hard to invent a pump that could be used
ANSWER: PCl5 or phosphorus pentachloride or to create vacuum.
phosphorus (V) chloride. 6. I am better known for my discovery of the
relationship between pressure and volume of gases
Riddle #81 at constant temperature.
1. I am plural in nature. Who am I?
2. I am a set of observations. ANSWER: (Robert) Boyle
3. I may also be a set of facts or measurements. Riddle #86
4. I may be qualitative or quantitative. 1. I am a primary tissue of plant roots
5. I may be discrete or continuous. 2. I am located at the periphery (most outward) of the
6. I am the basis of Statistics. root vascular cylinder.
Who am I? 3. In roots of plants I am a unique tissue in that my
ANSWER: Data cells continue to cycle for a long period
4. I am the site for the initiation of lateral roots and
Riddle #82 two secondary meristems, the vascular cambium
1. I am a living tissue in vascular plants. and cork cambium (phellogen).
2. In trees, I am the innermost layer of the bark. Who am I?
3. Some of my components include the sieve tube ANSWER: Pericycle
elements and companion cells. Riddle #87
4. I am concerned mainly with the transport of 1. I am a graphical representation of data.
soluble organic materials made during 2. I am particularly useful for representing a grouped
photosynthesis. frequency distribution.
WHO AM I? 3. Rectangles are my main building blocks.
ANSWER: Phloem 4. The area of a rectangle is proportional to the class
frequency it represents.
Riddle #83 5. I can be used to estimate the median or the mode
1. I am an optical device. of a given data.
2. I aid the observation of objects that could 6. From me a frequency polygon can be constructed.
otherwise not be seen with the naked eye. Who am I?
3. I may be made of a short focal length objective ANSWER: Histogram
lens.
4. I may also have an eye piece
5. I magnify small objects. Riddle #88
Who am I? 1. I am an electrical current.
ANSWER: (Optical) microscope 2. I am often unwanted.
Riddle #84 3. I am produced when a conductor moves in a
1. I am a law of nature. magnetic field.
2. I am named for a scientist who performed some of the 4. I am also produced in a conductor lying in a
experiments that led to my discovery. changing magnetic field.
3. I am a law of electromagnetism. Who am I?
4. I describe the induced emf in a closed loop. ANSWER: Eddy current
Who am I? Riddle #89
ANSWER: Faraday’s law of electromagnetic 1. I am a rare–earth element, a metal discovered in
induction 1944 but isolated in 1947.
2. In scientific circles, I am known as a trans-uranium
Riddle #85 element.
1. I was born in 1627 into a wealthy and influential 3. My atomic number is 96 and atomic mass 247.
family. 4. I have 13 known isotopes, all radioactive.
2. My father, a citizen of the Kingdom of Ireland was 5. I am perhaps the only element named after two
the Lord Treasurer. scientists.
3. Though I attended some prestigious schools, such 6. If these two scientists are French physicists, then
as Eton, I never had any formal university Who am I?
education. ANSWER: Curium (Cm)
4. Through self–tuition I became a foremost scientist Riddle #90
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 2. An equilateral triangle has three of me. 1. My name starts with the same letter as the name of
3. For a rectangle, there are two of me. a country that has won the world cup the highest
4. A square has four of me. number of times.
5. For your regular quadratic curve, I am just a 2. There are six of such elements in the Periodic
vertical line through the vertex. Table.
6. I usually divide a geometric figure into two 3. I am an exception if you know them all.
identical parts. 4. I am the only one whose symbol is just one letter.
Who am I? 5. I am the only one which is not a metal.
ANSWER: Line of Symmetry/Axis of Symmetry 6. I am the first member of Group 3 or 13.
Who am I?
Riddle #91 ANSWER: Boron.
1. I am modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell,
existing before mitotic division. Riddle #96
2. I may be a crack or abnormal opening in a part.
3. I am also a gap or space between two adjacent teeth 1. I am a phenomenon in which storage space is used
in the same dental arch. inefficiently, reducing capacity or performance and
4. In herbivores, I am the wide gap between the frequently both.
incisors and the premolars. 2. I am often accepted in return for improvements in
WHO AM I? speed or simplicity.
ANSWER: Diastema 3. I am a compositional technique in music.
Riddle #92 4. I am a common type of vegetative reproduction in
plants.
1. My name is derived from a Latin word meaning "little 5. In my type of reproduction, an organism involved
mouse". splits into fragments.
2. I am a soft tissue found in most animals. Who am I?
3. I am one of the four fundamental types of tissue ANSWER: Fragmentation
present in animals. Riddle #97
4. My cells contain protein filaments of actin and myosin
1. Together we constitute an important type of
that slide past one another.
5. My tissue functions are to produce force and cause
chemical reaction.
motion, either locomotion or movement within internal 2. In our kind of reaction, reactants and products
organs. are always in association.
Who am I? 3. If you write any one of us down on paper one
ANSWER: Muscle arrow is not enough.
4. We have a beginning but no end.
Riddle #93 5. Without us equilibrium point or position will
1. I am a statistic but not a casualty. be a mirage.
2. I am not a measure of location or central tendency. 6. Our forward and backward steps are in motion
3. I am a measure of spread or dispersion. all the time.
4. I am not a range. Who are we?
5. I am rather the square root of a measure of variation. ANSWER: Reversible reactions.
6. In standard form, I am a measure of the deviation from
the mean.
Riddle #98
1.I am a property of matter.
Who am I?
2.I vary with temperature.
ANSWER: Standard Deviation 3.For water, I attain a maximal value at 4 ℃.
Riddle #94 4.Because my value for ice is less than that for
1. I am a mechanism for energy transfer. water, ice floats on water.
2. In transferring energy, I cause the particles of a Who am I?
medium to move. ANSWER: Density
3. I cannot transfer energy through vacuum.
4. I am a heat transfer mechanism. Riddle #99
Who am I? 1. I am definitely a function.
ANSWER: Convection 2. However I am neither your usual polynomial
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 3. With me, the variable occurs as an exponent and 6. Our differences stem from the different number of
hence my name. neutrons we possess in our respective nuclei.
4. I am generally associated with fast growth or Who are we?
decay. ANSWER: Isotopes
5. An example of me is f(x) = 2x. Riddle #104
Who am I?
ANSWER: Exponential Function. 1. I have perfect covalent bonds.
2. I am an epitome of an sp3 hybridized structure
Riddle #100 3. The interesting thing is that I may be regarded as a
compound or as a polymer.
1. I share a name with a venerable biblical character. 4. I am made up of a single element and I could be
2. I was also born on a day that is popularly celebrated in colourless, yellow, brown or black.
honor of the birth of another biblical character. 5. Because I am perhaps the hardest known solid, I
3. But I am best known for several laws of nature named am used in the industry for making cutting and
after me. grinding tools.
4. I wrote the Principia, 6. In Akwatia, in the Eastern Region of Ghana,
5. which was published in 1687 people dig everywhere looking for me.
6. and which set forth among other things the laws Who am I?
governing the interaction of objects with mass. ANSWER: Diamond
Who am I? Riddle #105
ANSWER: Isaac Newton 1. I am a specialized type of cell found in the bodies of all
Riddle #101 major animal groups except sponges, placozoa, and
1. My name is derived from the Latin word which means several other obscure or extinct life forms.
'to boil’. 2. I exist in a number of different shapes and sizes and
2. I am a Natural process that precedes human history. can be classified by their morphology and function.
3. I have been used by humans for the production of food 3. I am an electrically excitable cell that processes and
and beverages. transmits information through electrical and chemical
4. Louis Pasteur, in a series of investigations, showed that signals.
I am initiated by living organisms. 4. I am highly specialized for the processing and
5. In food processing, I am used to convert carbohydrates transmission of cellular signals.
to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using 5. Typically, I possess a cell body, dendrites, and an
yeasts, and bacteria. axon.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: Fermentation ANSWER: Neuron
Riddle #102 Riddle #106
1. I am used in set theory as well as in Logic 1. I am a rigid body motion.
2. I transform statements into alternative and more 2. With me, the figure and its image are congruent.
convenient forms. 3. Under me, you are what you see even though the sense
3. Essentially I am two laws in one. of an image is reversed.
4. For sets I express the complement of union of two sets 4. I produce a mirror image.
as the intersection of their complements. 5. I am associated with an axis of symmetry.
5. I also transform the complement of the intersection of 6. I map a figure one to one onto its image.
two sets into the union of their complements. Who am I?
6. There is something French about me so far as my name
is concerned. ANSWER: Reflection
Who am I? Riddle #107
ANSWER: De Morgan’s Laws
Riddle #103 1. I am a form of electromagnetic radiation.
1. We are siblings. 2. Emitted by excited atoms.
2. We are of the same parentage 3. I am produced when outer shell electrons fall into
3. We have almost identical looks. an inner shell vacancy.
4. Our chemical properties do not differ. 4. My wavelength is unique to the atom from which
5. If we do step on a weighing scale one after the other no I am produced.
two of us are likely to register the same weight. 5. I am given labels such as K α and K β.
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 ANSWER: Characteristic X-ray
Riddle #108
1. I am a four digit even number.
2. I represent a year in the second half of the twenty
first century.
3. The number formed from my last two digits is an
exact square.
4. I am divisible by 8.
5. The sum of my digits is 12.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 2064
Riddle #109
1. I am used in the manufacture of pottery.
2. I increase in volume when I lose fluids.
3. I set to give a hard solid.
4. When I am setting I trap a molecule of water
between every two of my molecules.
5. Some building block manufacturers add me to
the sand and cement mixture so as to produce
blocks that are not damaged easily by shock.
6. My name suggests I live in that city with the
Eifel Tower.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Plaster of Paris or
CaSO4.½H2O or 2CaSO4.H2O
Riddle #110
1. We are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a very
broad range of environments.
2. We are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and
terrestrial environments, where we often
outnumber other animals in both individual and
species counts.
3. Depending on the species, we may be beneficial or
detrimental to plant health.
4. In the soil ecosystem we can effectively regulate
bacterial population and community composition.
5. Some of our members that are commonly parasitic
on humans include Ascaris, hookworm,
6. filarias, whipworms, and pinworms
Who am I?
ANSWER: Nematoda
Riddle #111
1. I am a geometrical figure.
2. To be precise I am generally a part of a geometric
figure.
3. I am associated with lines and circles
4. In the plane, I connect two points with the shortest
distance.
5. For a line, I am a finite portion of the line.
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6. A chord of a circle divides the interior of the circle
into two of me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Segment
Riddle #112
1. I am a well-planned city
2. I have well labelled streets, running east-west and
north-south.
3. Since I do not want to appear traditional, I named my
streets using Arabian numerals
4. In terms of apartment allocation it has been arranged
such that those with low body-mass index inhabit in
the houses located in the extreme west or north
5. One well known Russian was my town planner and
architect at the same time
6. He got the scientific world to name me as a Table.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Periodic Table
Riddle #113
1. I am a disease caused by parasitic worms.
2. I may infect the urinary tract or intestines of my
victims.
3. My Signs and symptoms may include abdominal pain,
diarrhoea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine.
4. The parasites that are responsible for the disease are
released from freshwater snails that have been infected
5. I am commonly known assnail fever orKatayama
fever.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Schistosomiasis/Bilharzia
Riddle #114
1. I am a radioactive element.
2. I have two letters in my chemical symbol.
3. I decay by alpha emission.
4. With a lifetime of about 2300 y.
5. I was used in making self-luminous watch and
clock dials.
6. Until it was discovered that I had been killing the
watchmakers.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Radium
Riddle #115
1. I am a traditional, sustainable method of
agriculture which has been practised by indigenous
tribes for centuries.
2. I used to be the backbone of smallholder
agriculture throughout the tropics,
3. But I have been attacked frequently in principle
because I am known to degrade the fertility of
forestlands of tropical regions.
 4. In my system, a plot of land is cleared and 2. In our kingdom we go by our common names and
cultivated for a short period of time. not titles.
5. The cultivator then abandons the plot and allows it 3. We are not sociable so quite often we do not know
to revert to its natural vegetation while he moves what is going on in our kingdom.
on to another plot. 4. I am a colourless and odourless gaseous element
Who am I? with atomic number 18.
ANSWER: Shifting cultivation 5. I am about twice more soluble in water than
Riddle #116 nitrogen gas.
1. I was discovered by experiment. 6. I constitute about 0.94% of the earth’s atmosphere.
2. I am named for the scientist who discovered me. Who am I?
3. His name is also given to the unit of an electrical ANSWER: Argon
quantity. Riddle #121
4. Although I am called a law, I am not a universal 1. I can take the form of chemical substances or energy,
law because. such as noise, heat or light.
5. I am an empirical law. 2. I have been found to be present widely in the
6. I only apply in those instances when current is environment.
proportional to potential difference. 3. I am often classified as a point source or nonpoint
Who am I? source.
ANSWER: Ohm’s law 4. Many nations worldwide have enacted laws to regulate
Riddle #117 various types of me as well as to mitigate the adverse
1. You cannot part with me without measuring a effects of me.
volume. 5. I am the introduction of contaminants into the natural
2. Consistency and accuracy are my hallmarks. environment that cause adverse change.
3. I detest guess work. Who am I?
4. I work with solutions better than solids and gases ANSWER: Pollution
5. Graduated glassware such as pipettes and burettes Riddle #122
are my foot soldiers. 1. I share a name with a biblical character.
6. A colour indicator of some sort is a must in my 2. An SI unit is named after me
make-up. 3. for my pioneering work on heat
Who am I? 4. which established a now well-known principle of
ANSWER: Volumetric Analyses thermodynamics.
Riddle #118 5. I am Prescott.
1. I am in the shuffling business in relation to playing Who am I?
cards. ANSWER: (James Prescott) Joule
2. I am in the business of arranging objects.
3. I come into play when books are assembled on a shelf.
4. For a group of objects, you get different ordering of Riddle #123
me. 1. I am normally rectangular, but modern forms of
5. Numerically, I am represented by the expression nPr. me can be circular, irregular, or other shapes.
6. Part of me is a mutation per chance. 2. To the ecologist, I am an indispensable tool.
Who am I? 3. I am used to mark off at random, a physical area to
ANSWER: Permutation isolate a sample.
4. I am therefore suitable for sampling plants, slow-
Riddle #119 moving animals, and some aquatic organisms.
1. Simply I am a line segment. 5. I am popularly known by my use to determine the
2. I define the size of a circle. percentage of vegetation and animals occurring
3. I am a segment from the center to the within a marked area.
circumference. Who am I?
4. Length wise, I am half the diameter. ANSWER: Quadrat
5. I am the shorter of the two long bones of the lower
arm of vertebrates. Riddle #124
Who am I? 1. I am a chemical process encountered both in the
ANSWER: Radius laboratory and in industry.
2. Despite my numerous services to man, I am not
tolerated at home.
Riddle #120 3. If I were human I would be expected to invest in
1. I belong to a line of nobilities. large stocks of glues because I join molecules up.
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 4. For my services I demand a small molecule for 2. I am used to classify particles into one of two
every joint made by me. categories.
5. One of my useful synthetic products is nylon. 3. You probably think of a top when you think of me.
6. May be I am also a source of environmental 4. I can have integral or half-integral values.
pollution. 5. For electrons, I have a value of half.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: Condensation Polymerisation. ANSWER: Spin
Riddle #125
1. I am a heat engine.
2. Like any heat engine, I convert thermal energy into
mechanical energy.
3. I am a type of internal combustion engine. Riddle #130
4. I have a turbine for compressing air,
5. I also have a nozzle where hot gases are ejected 1. I have two natural isotopes and three artificial ones.
and thrust is developed. 2. Of all the elements I have the lowest melting point.
6. I am a prime mover for airliners. 3. My liquid does not solidify even at absolute
Who am I? temperature zero unless there is external pressure.
ANSWER: Jet engine 4. I am found everywhere in the universe except in the
Riddle #126 atmosphere of the earth.
5. I am used as a gas shield for arc welding.
6. In Ghana and elsewhere I am extensively used in
1. You will find me in a plane.
filling ceremonial balloons.
2. I am a closed geometric figure bounded by line
Who am I?
segments.
ANSWER: Helium
3. I am a regular kind of fellow.
4. I have as many segments as angles. Riddle #131
5. My interior angles are congruent and so are my 1. In many cases, terms such as disorder, morbidity and
segments. illness are used interchangeably with me.
6. The measure of my exterior angle is (360/n)°. 2. I am often taken as a medical condition associated with
Who am I? specific symptoms and signs.
ANSWER: Regular Polygon 3. My name broadly refers to any condition that impairs
Riddle #127 the normal functioning of the body.
4. I am a particular abnormal, pathological condition that
1. I derive my name from a Latin word meaning
affects part or all of an organism.
exemption from military service, tax payments or
5. Death due to me is called death by natural causes.
other public services.
Who am I?
2. My concept has fascinated mankind for thousands of
ANSWER: Disease
years.
3. I involve both specific and nonspecific components. Riddle #132
4. I could be acquired either artificially, or naturally. 1. I am a type of Arithmetic.
5. I am the capability of the body to resist harmful 2. Essentially, I am concerned with division of integers
microorganisms or viruses from entering it. by a modulo.
Who am I? 3. I deal with the remainders after such division.
ANSWER: Immunity 4. I have application to time in clock systems.
Riddle #128 5. I am used in scheduling and determining market days.
Who am I?
1. I am an undesirable response to a request.
ANSWER: Modular Arithmetic
2. I am important in photography.
3. I am the reverse image which is restored by Riddle #133
developing and printing. 1. I am an experiment.
4. I am an additive inverse of a positive real number. 2. I was conducted by Fletcher and another physicist
5. The charge of an electron is an example of me. who goes by Robert.
6. I exist on one half of the number line to the left of the 3. I demonstrate that electric charge is quantized.
origin. 4. I am conducted with small charged particles of oil.
Who am I? 5. That are introduced into the electric field between
ANSWER: Negative two parallel plates.
Riddle #129 Who am I?
1. I am a property of fundamental particles. ANSWER: Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
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Riddle #134 5. If I were in the military, I will be an officer.
6. I am the larger section of a circle bounded by an
1. I cannot tell you when I was born but I am very old, arc and a chord.
indeed more than 300 million years old. Who am I?
2. I am black or brown ANSWER: Major Segment
3. I am found in almost all the continents in the world Riddle #139
4. I am a solid used as fuel
5. When I am destructively distilled, a number of gases 1. My name is derived from a Turkish word which
and a thick black liquid are obtained means "to be curdled or coagulated or to thicken"
6. Coke is the residue after I have been destructively 2. By most accounts I was created by Central Asian
distilled people.
Who am I? 3. In ancient Indian records, the combination of me
ANSWER: Coal. and honey is called "the food of the gods.
Riddle #135 4. I am produced by bacterial fermentation of milk,
1. I am a semiconductor device. commonly cow milk.
2. I am composed of both p type and n type 5. In order to offset my natural bitterness, I am sold
semiconductors. sweetened, flavored or in containers with fruit or
3. And I have a pn junction. fruit jam on the bottom.
4. Light of appropriate wavelength falling on my pn Who am I?
junction generates electrons and holes. ANSWER: Yoghurt
5. In this manner, I convert light into electrical current.
Who am I? Riddle #140
ANSWER: Photodiode 1. I am a mathematical instrument.
Riddle #136 2. Part of me is a tractor.
1. I am an important molecule used in many 3. I am semi-circular in appearance.
biochemical reactions 4. I am used to construct and measure angles in the
2. I have two main components. plane.
3. I am referred to as the "Hub of Metabolism". 5. I measure by degrees.
4. In 1963 Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen were Who am I?
awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ANSWER: Protractor
for their discoveries linking me and fatty acid
metabolism. Riddle #141
5. My main function is to convey the carbon atoms 1. I am only a theory.
within the acetyl group in me to the Krebs cycle to 2. I have been used over and over without any failure.
be oxidized for energy production. 3. Through me Scientists are able to do what X-ray
Who am I? diffraction machines are meant to do.
ANSWER: Acetyl coenzyme A or acetyl-CoA 4. I assist Scientists to predict or describe the shape of
Riddle #137 molecules.
1. I am an organic compound 5. I am able to mix up electron clouds of different shapes
2. My molecules are made up of 14 atoms from three and energies.
different elements 6. As usual hybrid vigour is the winner.
3. I am not a natural product but usually obtained Who am I?
from natural sources ANSWER: Hybridization
4. I am a constituent of some natural esters. Riddle #142
5. I am obtained when fats and vegetable oils are
saponified. 1. I am a helical object.
6. I am a colourless, viscous liquid. 2. Other than my helical shape, I have nothing in
Who am I? common with DNA.
ANSWER: Glycerol / Glycerine / 1,2,3-propantriol 3. I can produce magnetic fields.
Riddle #138 4. The magnetic field I produce has a strength
proportional to the current I carry.
1. I am in a way a part of a circle. 5. I can produce a nearly uniform magnetic field
2. I am not an arc. when I am made very long and wound with tight
3. You will find me inside the circle. coils.
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 ANSWER: Solenoid 5. I describe the energy stored in a deformed
Riddle #143 ideal spring.
Who am I?
1.I was first demonstrated theoretically. ANSWER: Elastic Potential Energy
2.But countless experiments affirm my validity. Riddle #148
3.I describe the radiation emitted by a heated object. 1. I occur abundantly in the biosphere.
4.I am a law. 2. I am widely distributed in locations populated by
5.That relates the temperature of an object and the “bacterial hosts”.
wavelength for peak emission from the object. 3. I have played an important role in laboratory
Who am I? research in the 20th century.
ANSWER: Wien’s displacement law 4. I am commonly known as bacterial virus.
5. I am a virus that infects and replicates within a
Riddle #144 bacterium.
1. I am the oldest of all lineages of land plants. Who am I?
2. I am believed to be a vital link in the migration of ANSWER: Bacteriophage
plants from aquatic environments onto land. Riddle #149
3. I am also a traditional name used to refer to all
1. I am a triple of integers.
land plants that do not have true vascular tissue.
2. I am closely associated with right angle triangles.
4. I have a life cycle with alternation of generations.
3. I represent the lengths of the legs and +
5. I produce enclosed reproductive structures.
+hypothenuse of such triangles.
6. I produce neither flowers nor seeds, but I
4. I am a solution of the Pythagorean equation x2 + y2
reproduce via spores.
= z2 and hence my name.
Who am I?
5. Examples of me are (3, 4, 5) and (5, 12, 13).
ANSWER: Bryophyte
Who am I?
Riddle #145 ANSWER: Pythagorean Triple
1. I am a binary compound of triatomic molecules. Riddle #150
2. My constituent elements are both non-metals.
1. Generally I am a very desirable process but I can
3. I am not as sociable as my younger sibling.
be destructive too.
4. We both suffer from a form of physical deformity,
2. I am able to break up big molecules into small
that is, we have bent backs.
ones.
5. I tend to form insoluble, mostly black or brown
3. I am an applied science mankind has practiced for
precipitate with metal cations in solution.
centuries
6. You may like everything about me but not my
4. I do not act alone, I need the assistance of some
offensive, rotten-egg odour.
micro-organisms
Who am I?
5. Heat is one of my by-products but this always
ANSWER: Hydrogen sulphide/H2S
goes to waste.
Riddle #146 6. Without me where will be the much loved club
beer and star beer or gari?
1.I may be direct or indirect. Who am I?
2.Implications are a part of me. ANSWER: Fermentation
3.I am not a theorem. Riddle #151
4.I am indispensable in mathematical logic.
5.I am the process of establishing a theorem. 1. I am believed to have evolved from simple sacs of the
6.I am a sequence of statements leading to a final oesophagus.
statement called the conclusion. 2. I have a soft, sponge like texture.
Who am I? 3. In most frogs and other amphibians I am simple and
ANSWER: Proof balloon-like in structure.
Riddle #147 4. In humans, I am located in two cavities on either side
of the heart.
1. I am a form of energy. 5. Medical terms related to me often begin with the prefix
2. Although I am associated with the pulmo.
configuration of particles. 6. I am the essential respiration organ in many air-
3. I have nothing to do with gravity. breathing animals.
4. I am associated with deformations. Who am I?
ANSWER: Lung

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Riddle #152
1. I am a chemical process.
2. I have many industrial applications.
3. I cannot be engaged if there is no source of
electrical power.
4. I hate alternating current since it makes me toil for
nothing.
5. I am used extensively to produce jewellery,
ornaments and house-hold items.
6. Faraday enunciated two laws regulating my
operations.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Electrolysis
Riddle #153
1.I am a unique point on a curve.
2.Strange things happen at me.
3.Mind you I am not a stationary point.
4.The second derivative vanishes at me.
5.I am in a way a boundary point.
6.At me the shape of a curve changes suddenly from
curving up to curving down or vice-versa.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Point of Inflexion
Riddle #154
1. I am one of the variables that describe the state of a
gas.
2. I am a measure of the energy density of an ideal
gas.
3. I am proportional to the mean-square speed of the
molecules of an ideal gas.
4. I am also proportional to the density and
temperature of an ideal gas.
5. I have such units as torr and bar.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pressure
Riddle #155
1. I am in a way triangle.
2. However I have no segments or angles to boast of.
3. Strictly I am a triangular array of integers.
4. Each row is symmetric and begins and ends with 1.
5. My members are binomial coefficients.
6. My name suggests I am someone’s triangle.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pascal’s Triangle
Riddle #156
1. We are members of the genus Apis.
2. We are known to communicate through many
different chemicals and odours,
3. We also use specific behaviours that convey
information about the quality and type of resources
in the environment, and where these resources are
located.
4. We are generalist floral visitors, and will pollinate
a large variety of plants.
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5. We live in colonies where the workers among us
sting intruders as a form of defence.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Honey bees
Riddle #157
1. If I were a child I would have just graduated from
a nursery school and starting a new phase of my
education.
2. But I am not a child but an inanimate system.
3. I have three distinct parts, working in harmony.
4. I usually have a bridge not for humans but for
electrons.
5. I convert irreversibly chemical energy into
electrical energy.
6. One of my names suggests I am a citizen of the
most south–easterly region of Ghana.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Primary Voltaic cell.
Riddle #158
1. I am a property of the constituents of matter.
2. I am not mass.
3. But all particles that have me also have mass.
4. Although not all particles that have mass also have
me.
5. I distinguish a positron from an electron, a proton
from an anti-proton.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Electric charge
Riddle #159
1. I am distinguished by my electrical conductivity.
2. Which increases as temperature increases.
3. I am a type of semiconductor material.
4. I am not intrinsic.
5. I can be made by introducing controlled amounts
of a trivalent element into silicon.
6. I have more holes in my valence band than
electrons in my conduction band.
Who am I?
ANSWER: P-type semiconductor
Riddle #160
1. I am an exponent or a power.
2. I am often described as natural, binary or common
according to my base.
3. Before calculators I was of much use in
computation.
4. For the exponential N = ax, to base a, I am x.
5. In my common form for 10, I am 1 and for 100, I
am 2.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Logarithm
Riddle #161
1. I consist of two types of cells.
2. One cell type is almost isodiametric in shape whereas
the other cell type is tall and axially oriented.
3. I am found in dicots and gymnosperms but not in
monocots,
4. I am a cylinder of unspecialized meristem cells that
divide to give new cells which then specialize to form
secondary vascular tissues.
5. I am located between the xylem and the phloem in the
stem and root of a vascular plant.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vascular cambium
Riddle #162
1. My early formal education was restricted to
reading, writing and arithmetic.
2. I was the third of four siblings.
3. From age 14, and for 8 years, serving as an
apprentice of a local bookbinder, I educated myself
by reading widely about science subjects.
4. From age 22, and employed as a chemical assistant
of Davy Humphrey, his wife and other scientists, I
learned enough science to be able to carry out
research on my own.
5. At age 39, I became Professor of chemistry at the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, England.
6. I am credited with the two laws in Electrolysis
Who am I?
ANSWER: Michael Faraday.
Riddle #163
1. There is nothing special about me and I am your
average kind of guy.
2. I am a straight line associated with curves.
3. I am not a chord or a tangent.
4. I am at loggerheads with respect to the tangent in terms
of direction,
5. The truth is that I am always perpendicular to a
tangent.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Normal
Riddle #164
1. I am a type of force.
2. Whenever I am present, the velocity of an object
changes.
3. My value for a moving particle depends on the
path of the particle.
4. I am zero for motion along a straight path.
5. My magnitude is proportional to the square of
speed.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Centripetal force
Riddle #165
1. I am an organic compound made up of atoms from
three different elements, carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen.
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2. I am an aromatic compound with benzene as my
nucleus.
3. I have two interesting functional groups.
4. My reaction with sodium hydroxide will lead to
deprotonation and hydrolysis.
5. One product of hydrolysis, the smaller one is the
ethanoate ion.
6. If I am a benzoic acid with an esterified phenolic
group in the ortho position,
Who am I?
ANSWER: Aspirin or Acetyl salicylic acid
Riddle #166
1. In anatomy my name can refer to any flat structures.
2. Generally, I am used to refer to a dome-shaped
structure of muscle and fibrous tissue.
3. I possess a series of apertures permitting the passage of
structures.
4. I perform an important function in respiration.
5. During inhalation, I contract thus enlarging the volume
of the thoracic cavity.
6. In mammals, I separate the thoracic cavity from the
abdominal cavity.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Diaphragm
Riddle #167
1. I possess only four pairs of chromosomes: three
pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex
chromosomes.
2. I was among the first organisms used for genetic
analysis.
3. I am even a better subject for genetic studies than
the garden pea.
4. The hypothesis that genes are on the chromosomes
was substantiated with me as the subject of the
experiments.
5. Unfortunately, I am commonly considered a pest
due to my tendency to infest habitations and
establishments where fruit is found.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Drosophila (melanogaster) \ Fruit fly
Riddle #168
1. I am a component of a measuring instrument.
2. I have a central electrode.
3. Which is surrounded by a cylindrical cathode.
4. I contain an inert gas in which an electron
avalanche is generated.
5. In response to absorption of radiation in my active
volume.
6. I am frequently paired with a counter.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Geiger-Mueller tube
Riddle #169
1. I am a binary, covalent compound.
 2. I have tetra-atomic molecules from two non–
metallic elements.
3. I am quite popular as a compound from many
angles.
4. I am the most favorite choice if a chemistry teacher
wants an example of a weak family member of
Bronsted–Lowry or even the Lewis family.
5. I accept protons but not too eagerly or strongly.
6. I have a trigonal pyramidal shape with nitrogen as
my central atom.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ammonia (NH3)
Riddle #170
1. I am simply a line of great importance to
Arithmetic.
2. I am the geometry of a number system.
3. Each point of me represents a number.
4. I am characterized by a unique point that separates
the numbers into positives and negatives.
5. Any number rational or irrational can be found on
me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Number Line
Riddle #171
1. We live in that famous city designed and built by
that Russian architect.
2. We live on the 4th avenue.
3. We are twins, with slightly different body–mass
indices.
4. Despite the same parentage we have completely
different looks and different abilities.
5. Whilst one of us is soft and very agreeable, the
other is hard and uncompromising.
6. 6 and 12 are our favourite numbers.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Graphite and diamond OR
Allotropes of carbon
Riddle #172
1. My name represents the Latin word for "little ring".
2. In mathematics I am a ring-shaped object, especially a
region bounded by two concentric circles.
3. In mushrooms I am the ring-like remains of a
membrane (called a veil), found around the stipes of
certain basidiomycetes.
4. My presence or absence is often used to identify the
species of an individual mushroom.
5. In Ferns, I am a row of specialized cells of the
sporangium responsible for opening the sporangium
and dispersing the spore.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Annulus
Riddle #173
1. I am a three-dimensional geometrical figure.
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2. I normally sit on a polygonal base.
3. I have faces which are triangular in shape.
4. An example of me is a tetrahedron.
5. My triangular faces meet in a common point, the
vertex.
6. An extreme example of me is a cone.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pyramid
Riddle #174
1. I am a type of solid.
2. I am distinguished by my electrical conductivity
and how it behaves with temperature.
3. At absolute zero, I have a full valence band and
an empty conduction band.
4. I have such a large energy difference between my
conduction and valence bands that.
5. At room temperature, there are hardly any
electrons in my conduction band.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Insulator
Riddle #175
1. I am an experiment conducted in the 1910’s
2. By two gentlemen whose names I bear.
3. Electrons accelerated through a low-pressure
vapour cell produced a current with maxima and
minima as a function of accelerating voltage.
4. In this way, I demonstrated that electrons undergo
inelastic collisions with atoms only at particular
electron energies,
5. Proving that atomic energies are quantized.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Frank-Hertz experiment
Riddle #176
1. I am a linear function.
2. I usually represent profit, cost or loss.
3. My extreme values are much sought after in
business.
4. I am of much importance in Linear Programming.
5. My name indicates that I am the objective of
Linear Programming.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Objective Function
Riddle #177
1. I am formed during embryogenesis, along with the
root and shoot meristems,
2. I am therefore present in the seed prior to
germination.
3. In young seedlings of dicot plants I am
photosynthetic and functionally similar to leaves
4. The number of me present, is one characteristic
used by botanists to classify the angiosperms
5. I am also present in seedlings of gymnosperms,
except that I am often variable in number
 6. Plants with seeds that contain two of me are Riddle #182
termed dicotyledons 1. I am closely associated with solids.
Who am I? 2. However, there is an important class of liquids
ANSWER: Cotyledon with which I am also associated.
Riddle #178 3. Some of these liquids are used in modern
1. I am a hydrocarbon and a fully saturated one information display devices.
2. The number of carbons in my molecule is a 4. I am lattice with basis.
square of a prime number 5. I am a regular repeating pattern of atoms or
3. I have a straight backbone, not bent and not molecules.
Who am I?
branched
ANSWER: Crystal
4. I am gaseous at room temperature and
standard pressure Riddle #183
1. I am a group of lines in the spectrum of an atom.
5.
2. I am described by a term formula that was
6. If I am a major component of the LPG used as discovered in 1885.
a source of fuel in Ghana then 3. My series limit as given by the Rydberg formula is
Who am I? one-quarter the Rydberg constant.
ANSWER: Butane 4. I am the only group of hydrogen atom spectral
Riddle #179 lines with visible wavelengths.
1.Part of me is a meter. 5. My first term corresponds to a red wavelength.
2.I am essentially a distance measure. Who am I?
3.For a circle I am the circumference. ANSWER: Balmer series (or Balmer lines)
4.For a rectangle I am given by P = 2(L + W). Riddle #184
5.Basically I am the distance around a curve or a 1. I am used to describe various features or structures
plane geometric figure. in organisms.
Who am I? 2. In the brain, I am a stalk-like structure composed
ANSWER: Perimeter of white matter, connecting various regions of the
brain.
Riddle #180 3. In fishes, I am the narrow part of the body to which
1. I was an English physician and scientist the tail attaches.
2. My work is said to have "saved more lives than the 4. I am also used to refer to a stalk supporting an
work of any other human”. animal organ, such as the eyestalk of a lobster.
3. In 2002, I was named in the BBC's list of the 100 5. But, I am commonly used to describe a stalk
Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. supporting an inflorescence.
4. I am often called "the father of immunology”, Who am I?
5. I was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, as my ANSWER: Peduncle
experiments opened the pathway of discovery of Riddle #185
the immune system. 1. I am a sudden digression or change of course.
Who am I? 2. I am a trigonometric ratio involving the legs of a
ANSWER: Edward Jenner right angle triangle.
3. I am the part of a survey line that is straight.
4. I am a straight line touching a curve without
crossing it.
Riddle #181 5. As a trigonometric entity, I am the ratio
1. I am an inherent character of a substance very ‘opposite/adjacent’.
familiar to you Who am I?
2. Diamond and steel are supposed to have the same ANSWER: Tangent
trait as I have
3. I have a sibling, a character that cannot withstand Riddle #186
stress especially when it is under fire. 1. I occur in the uncombined state in most meteorites
4. I impart stability to this familiar substance 2. Man and I became friends more than 4000 years
5. With me soaps do not lather well ago
6. Boiling cannot expel me either 3. I am a metallic element present in several ores
Who am I? 4. To be extracted from my ores there has to be a
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 5. When I am freshly out of the furnace I resemble a 2. Indeed I am one of the metals in that group with a
pig silvery-white colour.
6. When my carbon impurity is reduced to 1.5 3. I can exist in three allotropic forms.
percent or below I call myself steel. 4. I am resistant to most of the common reagents.
Who am I? 5. I am therefore used in electroplating sheets of steel
ANSWER: Iron in the industry for the manufacture of food
Riddle #187 containers.
1. I am a basic unit used in computer science. 6. I combine with copper to form a popular alloy used
2. I am often arranged into tree structures known as by sculptors.
binary trees. Who am I?
3. In communication networks I am either a connection ANSWER: Tin or Sn
point, a redistribution point or a communication Riddle #192
endpoint.
4. The intervals on the stem of plants between me and 1. I may be a line segment or a number or a statistical
others of my kind are called inter nodes. measurement.
5. I am the region of a stem where leaves are attached. 2. I seem to have something to do with the midpoint or
Who am I? the middle term in a statistical data.
ANSWER: Node 3. For a triangle, I am a line segment from a vertex to
Riddle #188 the midpoint of the opposite side.
1. I am an emission process. 4. For a set of data, I am the middle term when the
2. I occur only in the presence of photons. data is ordered.
3. I am a process in which photons are emitted. 5. I am also the second quartile for a distribution.
4. For every photon already present, I generate a new Who am I?
photon. ANSWER: Median
5. I ensure that the photon generated is coherent with Riddle #193
the photon whose presence caused the emission. 1. I may be an electrical device or a structure on
6. I can thus be used to construct a light amplifier. certain groups of organisms.
Who am I? 2. As an electrical device I convert electric power into
ANSWER: Stimulated emission radio waves, and vice versa.
Riddle #189 3. In arthropods, I am connected to the front-most
1. I am a quadrilateral. segments.
2. I have a pair of parallel but non congruent sides. 4. I am present in all insects; however I may be greatly
3. I have a pair of congruent but non parallel sides. reduced in the larval forms.
4. I have two pairs of congruent adjacent angles. 5. Insects bear a pair of me whereas crustaceans bear
5. If I were a triangle, I would be isosceles. two pairs of me.
Who am I? 6. I am the primary olfactory sensor of insects.
ANSWER: Isosceles Trapezium Who am I?
Riddle #190 ANSWER: Antenna
1. I am a chemical. Riddle #194
2. My name appears to be a generic name for the 1. I am synonymous with simplicity.
whole family. 2. I approximate motion about an equilibrium point.
3. I have a metal and a non-metal as my constituent 3. I am described by an equation that contains a term
elements. that is linear in displacement.
4. My constituent elements are very harmful to man 4. There is harmony wherever I am found.
but I am harmless. 5. I am a motion whose direction opposes the agent
5. If I were a British citizen I would probably be a causing it.
member of House of Commons. Who am I?
6. Without me most of your foods will be tasteless. ANSWER: Simple harmonic motion
Who am I? Riddle #195
ANSWER: Sodium Chloride or NaCl or 1. I am a vector but a rather strange one.
Common salt 2. As a vector I have no length to boast about.
Riddle #191 3. Really I have no direction.
1. I am an important member of the Main Group 4. At the same time I have an infinite number of
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5. In the coordinate plane, you can locate me at the
origin.
6. I am the identity for vector addition.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Zero Vector/Null Vector
Riddle #196
1. I am a common phenomenon in coastal waters and
other aquatic systems.
2. My name means well-nourished.
3. Although I am commonly caused by human activities, I
can also be a natural process.
4. When my effects are undesirable I may be considered a
form of pollution.
5. I arise from the oversupply of nutrients, which induces
explosive growth of plants and algae.
6. I lead to the reduction in concentration of dissolved
oxygen in water bodies and a range of other effects
reducing bio-diversity.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Eutrophication
Riddle #197
1. I was born in 1859 in Sweden and received a Nobel
Prize in chemistry in 1903.
2. My ancestors were farmers but my father and one
uncle decided to go into academia.
3. I discovered in my childhood that I was gifted in
arithmetical calculations.
4. I entered University of Uppsala in 1876 to study
mathematics, physics and chemistry.
5. I did not like the place much as facilities for practical
physics were lacking and so I left to go and work under
a Professor at the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
6. I wrote a thesis on electrolytes, including acids and
bases for which reason the first theory of acids and
bases was named after me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: (Svante) Arrhenius.
Riddle #198
1. I am a property of matter.
2. For some materials, I decrease when temperature is
increased.
3. For most metals, I decrease as temperature is
decreased.
4. At sufficiently low temperatures, I can vanish.
5. A state in which I am zero is called
superconducting.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Resistivity
Riddle #199
1. I am a specialized stem, leaf or petiole.
2. I can be formed from modified shoots, modified
leaves, or auxiliary branches.
3. I do not have a lamina or blade, but I can
photosynthesize.
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4. I am a spirally coiling sensitive organ that serves to
attach a climbing plant to its support.
5. In some parasitic plants, I am guided by airborne
chemicals, and only twine around suitable hosts.
who am I?
ANSWER: Tendrils
Riddle #201
1. I have units of kJmol-1.
2. I am a characteristic property of chemical
substances.
3. You can tell the stability of substances by a close
look at me.
4. I am associated with synthetic or transformation
reactions.
5. When it is synthesis I am not just interested in any
kind of synthetic reaction.
6. The synthesis should involve the elements of the
substance in their standard states.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Standard Enthalpy of formation / Standard
Heat of Formation
Riddle #202
1. I am the path of a moving object;
2. So I am a trajectory.
3. Geometrically, I am a conic section.
4. I am the trajectory of an object moving with constant
speed.
5. But whose velocity is not constant.
6. I am the path of an object whose distance from a fixed
point is fixed.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Circular trajectory (or circle)
Riddle #203
1. I am a four digit number.
2. I am what is called a palindromic number.
3. Whichever direction you read me, forward or
backward, the value is the same.
4. My first digit is an odd square and so also is my last
digit.
5. My second digit is an even cube and so is my third
digit.
6. The sum of my digits is 34
Who am I?
ANSWER: 9889
Riddle #204
1. William Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar uses me to
describe Cassius' ill-tempered nature.
2. But, I am an organ found in virtually all
vertebrates.
3. In humans, I am brownish in colour and located in
the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.
 4. I play important roles in regard to red blood cells 1. I measure change of one variable with respect to
and the immune system. another variable.
5. I am the organ that is responsible for purifying the 2. For motion, I may be speed or velocity, and
blood as well as storing blood cells. acceleration.
Who am I? 3. I am mathematically obtained by differentiation.
ANSWER: The spleen 4. In a chemistry laboratory, I am associated with a
Riddle #205 chemical reaction.
1. I am closely associated with energy. 5. Essentially, I am a rate and change is my objective.
2. But I am not energy itself. Who am I?
3. I characterize regions of space in which electric ANSWER: Rate of Change
fields exist. Riddle #210
4. My negative gradient equals electric field strength. 1. I am used to refer to the positional arrangement of the
5. I am a measure of the work done in moving a unit parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has
positive charge from a reference point to a field opened.
point. 2. I am also a widely used strategy across all forms of
Who am I? hypometabolic organisms.
ANSWER: Electric potential 3. I am used to describe the state of inactivity in certain
Riddle #206 invertebrates and vertebrates.
1. I am a diagram for illustrating a frequency 4. I take place during times of heat and dryness.
distribution. 5. I am characterized by inactivity and a lowered
2. I am not a histogram. metabolic rate, which is entered in response to high
3. Neither am I a line chart or a bar chart. temperatures and arid conditions.
4. My name suggests something edible. Who am I?
5. I am circular in shape with frequencies reduced to ANSWER: Aestivation
angular measures. Riddle #211
6. I am the edible chart. 1. If you have my qualities it means you are strong
Who am I? and firm.
ANSWER: Pie Chart 2. Without me how could industrialization in the 20th
Riddle #207 and 21st Centuries have been possible?
1. I am an inorganic salt. 3. But I am a mere solution.
2. I am soluble in water, ethanol, methanol and 4. And I am a solution of a kind because both my
propanone. solvent and solute are solids.
3. I possess a metal cation and a complex anion. 5. If I contain a certain percentage of carbon then I
4. My anion is made up of another metal and oxygen. am supposed to be mild.
5. Apart from being a powerful oxidizing agent, I can 6. Electroplating me with chromium produces a
be used as a disinfectant at home. material that can be used for making cutlery and
6. My characteristic purple colour is due to this my utensils.
complex anion. Who am I?
Who am I? ANSWER: Steel
ANSWER: KMnO4 or Potassium Riddle #212
tetraoxopermanganate (VII). 1. In my natural state I am gaseous, made up of two
Riddle #208 different elements
1. I am a two terminal device commonly found in a 2. I have two pi bonds in my molecule
physics laboratory. 3. In my pure form, I am colourless and odourless
2. I am used for measuring an electrical quantity. 4. I am relatively non-polar because of my structure.
3. In my digital version, I display readings that change 5. Despite this I can easily be compressed, going from the
sign when my terminals are interchanged. gaseous state straight into the solid state
4. When a charged capacitor is connected across my 6. My solid form has a nick-name ‘Dry-Ice’
terminals, I give a reading that decreases relatively Who am I?
slowly with time. ANSWER: CO2 or carbon (IV) oxide.
5. Showing that I have a high internal resistance. Riddle #213
Who am I? 1. I am a principle
ANSWER: Voltmeter 2. That describes the behavior of fluids.
Riddle #209 3. I am responsible for operation of hydraulic
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 4. My name contains the name of an SI unit. 2. I was born in 1778, and therefore grew up during both
5. I specify how a pressure change is transmitted in a the French and Chemical Revolutions.
fluid. 3. I analyzed the compositions of Earth’s atmosphere at
Who am I? different altitudes.
ANSWER: Pascal’s principle 4. I discovered the element Boron, when some of my
Riddle #214 colleagues and I were working on a project.
1. I have different types. 5. Two gas laws, one about variation of volume of a gas
2. I may be considered natural, whole, positive or with temperature at constant pressure and a second one
negative. about ratio of combining gases were attributed to me.
3. I am the basic building block of Mathematics. 6. I requested that the Law about variation of volume
4. I am often considered reasonable or rational as with temperature be attributed to Jacque Charles
well as crazy or irrational. because I used much of his unpublished data from
5. I may be terminating or repeating. 1787.
6. You can locate me on a line bearing my name. Who am I?
Who am I? ANSWER: Gay-Lussac (Joseph Louis)
ANSWER: Real Number
Riddle #215 Riddle #219
1. I was born to a Catholic family of a poor tanner. 1. I am a form of asexual reproduction.
2. I lived at the time when microbiology was the 2. I am sometimes used inaccurately to describe
subject of controversy. reproduction modes in hermaphroditic species.
3. I was an average student in my early years, and 3. I am seen to occur naturally in aphids, nematodes, and
not particularly academic, as my interests were some other invertebrates, as well as in many plants.
fishing and sketching. 4. A form of asexual reproduction related to me is
4. Although I made groundbreaking experiments, my gynogenesis.
reputation became associated with various 5. I am the form of asexual reproduction in which growth
controversies. and development of embryos occur without
5. I established that fermentation is the result of fertilization.
microbial activity. Who am I?
who am I? ANSWER: Parthenogenesis
ANSWER: Louis Pasteur Riddle #220
Riddle #216 1. I am a metabolically active tissue composed of
1. In the plane, there are two of us. several types of cells
2. Together we define the coordinates of a point in the 2. I come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have a
plane. complex internal and external structure
3. I am number 2 in the ordered pair. 3. I consist of living cells embedded in a mineralized
4. I am normally represented by the letter y. organic matrix.
5. I represent the distance of a point from the x-axis. 4. I am lightweight yet strong and hard, and serve
6. I am the y-coordinate of a point in the plane. multiple functions
Who am I? 5. In the human body, my smallest form is the stapes
ANSWER: Ordinate in the middle ear
Riddle #217 6. Unfortunately I am affected by a number of
1. I am different numbers on different scales but I diseases, including arthritis, infections,
represent the same point. osteoporosis and tumours.
2. On one scale I am 671.7; who am I?
3. On another I am 212. ANSWER: Bone
4. I am a reference point on a temperature scale. Riddle #221
5. I am the temperature of pure water boiling at normal 1. I am a radioactive 5f-transition element and
atmospheric pressure. therefore belong to the Actinide series.
Who am I? 2. I have 13 known isotopes.
ANSWER: Upper fixed point 3. My most important isotope undergoes nuclear
Riddle #218 fission with slow neutrons.
1. I was the eldest son of a provincial lawyer and royal 4. I am therefore an important power source for
official, who lost his position in the French Revolution nuclear reactors and weapons.
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 5. I am the second trans-uranium element to be
discovered and named after a member of the solar
system.
6. If you see my symbol you may think that I am a
citizen of Pusiga.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Plutonium (Pu)
Riddle #222
1. I am a property that varies from point to point on
earth.
2. I also vary with time.
3. I am a property of the terrestrial magnetic field.
4. I arise because the magnetic and geographic north
poles of the earth do not coincide.
5. I am the angle between the magnetic north pole
and the geographic north pole.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Declination
Riddle #223
1. I am the primary building blocks of integers.
2. For the decimal number system, I range from 0, 1,
2, up to 9.
3. For the binary number system, I am either 0 or 1.
4. In another context, I am a finger or a toe.
5. In a way, I define the modern computer age.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Digit
Riddle #224
1. I am a transport mechanism.
2. I can transfer energy through material media.
3. I am effective in both liquids and solids.
4. I transfer energy without the transfer of material particles
of a medium.
5. So I am able to transfer energy through vacuum.
6. I transmit energy in the form of waves.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Radiation
Riddle #225
1. I am a solid geometric figure.
2. I am a polyhedron.
3. I have eight triangular faces and twelve edges.
4. I am formed by joining two congruent square pyramids
base to base.
5. I am in the octo business and I am a polyhedron.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Octahedron
Riddle #226
1. I belong to a family of techniques, named as if the
colourless do not belong.
2. I and the rest of the family constitute a general
method for separating mixtures.
3. When any of us is in operation, there is always one
kind of competition or the other among the
constituents of the mixture being separated.
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4. I, just like the others, have a stationary phase and a
moving phase.
5. The competition or the race involves electrostatic
or physical adsorption or partition.
6. In my case different ions in the mixture compete
for ionic sites on the stationary phase.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ion Chromatography
Riddle #227
1. I am a biological process.
2. I can be thought of in a general sense as anything
expanding into greater being from a small existence.
3. The absorption of water, the passage of time, chilling,
warming, oxygen availability, and light exposure may
all operate in initiating my process.
4. I can also be used to refer to the emergence of cells
from resting spores.
5. The most common example of me is the sprouting of a
seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm.
who am I?
ANSWER: Germination
Riddle #228
1. I represent different things in different contexts.
2. I am a set of values taken by a function or a
variable.
3. In Statistics I am the difference between the largest
and smallest measurements.
4. I am open land on which farm animals graze.
5. I am also an area in which a species of organisms
live.
6. I am the union of mountains and hills extending
over some distance.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Range
Riddle #229
1. I am a naturally occurring compound belonging to
a renowned family of compounds.
2. I am a white solid, but appear yellowish when
contaminated with impurities.
3. Among my family members, I was the first to be
discovered, structurally characterized and
synthesized in the laboratory.
4. I am supposed to be a vital amine but chemically
am an organic acid not a base, which is a
contradiction.
5. I am used as a food preservative, a flour improver
in bakeries and an animal food additive.
6. I am the major component of the citrus family or
fruits.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vitamin C or Ascorbic acid
Riddle #230
1. I am a central idea in evolutionary theory.
2. I am a property, not of an individual, but of a class
of individuals.
 3. I can be defined either with respect to a genotype
or to a phenotype in a given environment.
4. In either case, I describe the ability to both survive
and reproduce.
5. Without differences in me natural selection cannot
act and adaptation cannot occur.
6. I am often defined as a tendency or probability,
rather than the actual number of offspring.
Who am I?
ANSWER: (Biological) Fitness
Riddle #231
1. If I were part of a building, I would be the basic
units that are assembled into a wall.
2. But I am not part of a building, even though you
may find me at building construction sites.
3. I am a simple machine.
4. I comprise two sets of pulleys linked by a single
string.
5. I have an ideal mechanical advantage that is
determined by the number of string sections
supporting the load bearing pulley system.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Block and tackle
Riddle #232
1. am a phenomenon that occurs at the boundary
between two media.
2. I occur when a wave encounters the boundary
between the media.
3. I return the incident wave back into the medium of
incidence.
4. In doing so, I do not permit transmission of the
wave into the other medium.
5. I only occur for a limited range incidence angles.
6. And only when the wave speed in the medium of
incidence is smaller than the wave speed in the
other medium.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Total internal reflection
Riddle #233
1. I am a process of interbreeding between individuals.
2. I have many and varied impacts on the process of
speciation.
3. I may slow or reverse differentiation by allowing
gene flow and recombination.
4. Plants go through my process much more
frequently and successfully than animals do.
5. Offsprings produced through me may be fertile,
partially fertile, or sterile.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hybridization
Riddle #234
1. I have no fixed value as I have the tendency to
change or vary.
2. I am represented by a symbol such as x or y which
symbol represents a value.
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3. I may be dependent or independent.
4. I am the building block for function notation.
5. For the function y = f(x), x is independent and y is
dependent.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Variable
Riddle #235
1. I am a d-transition metal.
2. I was used by the pre-Columbian Indians of South
America.
3. I was not noticed by any Western scientists until
1735.
4. I do occur freely in nature but sometimes, I am
found in deposits of gold-bearing sand.
5. I am dense, malleable, ductile and very resistant to
corrosion; that is why I am used in making
jewellery, wires, electrical contact sets and
laboratory vessels.
6. My name originated from a Spanish word meaning
“silver-like” and I have an atomic number 78.
Who am I
ANSWER: Platinum
Riddle #236
1. I occur widely in animal tissues and also in a few
plants and algae.
2. I am therefore a natural product and can exist in
nature as a free compound or as ester of fatty acids.
3. To humans I am part of their diet but I can be
synthesized in the liver.
4. As part of the blood of animals, I belong to the
general class of lipoproteins.
5. As a complex of a protein, I am used in building up
cell membranes.
6. Too much of me in the blood though may lead to
the narrowing of blood vessels or arteries.
7. I am a precursor of bile acids, sex hormones and a
source of vitamin D3.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cholesterol.
Riddle #237
1. I am a type of force that acts on charged particles.
2. I act on stationary charges.
3. I act on moving charges as well.
4. I am named for the scientist whose name is also
given to the phenomenon of length contraction.
5. I have two parts: an electric part and a magnetic
part.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Lorentz force
Riddle #238
1. There are three of us and you may view us as the
three musketeers.
2. We are associated with a frequency distribution.
3. We are not the mean, mode or median.
 4. Together we divide a distribution into four equal
parts.
5. There is a first, a second and a third.
6. The second one is literally the middle term of a
distribution.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Quartiles
Riddle #239
1. If I were an animal people would refered to me as
nocturnal because I normally occur in the night.
2. I am not an animal but a simple biological process
that does not occur in the world of animals.
3. I result in the production of fluid that may contain
a variety of organic and inorganic compounds,
mainly sugars, and potassium.
4. Because of this, people sometimes confuse the
fluid with dew, which condenses from the
atmosphere onto the surface of plants.
5. I am most noticeable when transpiration is
suppressed and the relative humidity is high, such
as during the night.
6. I am used to refer to the drops of xylem sap on the
tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants,
such as grasses.
who am I?
ANSWER: Guttation
Riddle #240
1. My name suggests I am a vertical distance.
2. But I need not be vertical.
3. I describe the position of a virtual image.
4. I am the illusion that a clear pool of water is
shallow.
5. I can be used with the true depth of a transparent
liquid to determine the refractive index of the
liquid
Who am I?
ANSWER: Apparent depth
Riddle #241
1. I am used in many disciplines and subjects.
2. I am used to refer to the genus of the chaetal deer.
3. In Physics, I am a line of rotational symmetry in an
optical system.
4. In mathematics I am lines used in a Cartesian
coordinate system.
5. Inanatomy I am the second cervical vertebra(C2)
of the spine.
6. My prominent feature is a tooth-like projection
called the odontoid process.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Axis
Riddle #242
1. I have a straight backbone of a chain of carbons.
2. I have nothing more than carbons and hydrogens in
my molecule.
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3. I react readily and separately with a mole each of
bromine in trichloromethane and cold, dilute and
neutral KMnO4 solution both with drastic physical
changes.
4. If I were a fully saturated compound I should be
entitled to 16 hydrogen atoms in my molecule but I
am not.
5. I have a total of seven carbons in my molecule.
6. My active functional group is located between the
last but one and the last but two carbons from one
end of the chain.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 2-Heptene or hept-2-ene
Riddle #243
1. I am a part of a circle.
2. To be precise I am an arc of a circle.
3. I am a junior part of a circle
4. I am an arc of a circle whose length is less than
half the circumference of the circle.
5. As an arc, I play a minor role so to speak.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Minor Arc
Riddle #244
1. I represent exact likeness in shape about a line, axis,
point or a plane.
2. I occur if one half of a figure can be rotated or
reflected onto the other.
3. In Biology, I am the balanced distribution of
duplicate body parts or shapes.
4. I occur often in nature, and plants and animals
exhibit me.
5. Geometrical figures such as isosceles triangle and
equilateral triangle reflect me.
6. The quadratic curve is a good demonstration of me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Symmetry
Riddle #245
1. I am a red inorganic compound with a melting
point of 196oC.
2. I am also an acidic oxide with a metal and oxygen
as my constituent elements.
3. I am a powerful oxidizing agent, especially to
organic compounds.
4. Since I am an anhydride, I dissolve in water to give
a very strong acid which is also a powerful
oxidizing agent.
5. It is not surprising because my metal is in
oxidation state of +6.
6. Steel electroplated with my metal has a bright
appearance and is more resistant to corrosion.
Who am I?
ANSWER: CrO3 or Chromium (VI)
oxide
Riddle #246
 1. In the early classification schemes, we were
regarded as a "natural" group.
2. There are more than 1000 extant or currently living
species of me.
3. Conifers are by far my largest living group.
4. Our name literally means naked seeds.
5. Together with angiosperms we compose the
spermatophytes or seed plants.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Gymnosperms
Riddle #247
1. I am a process in which electrons are emitted.
2. It is usually arranged that I emit electrons into an
evacuated space.
3. I am facilitated by the application of an electric
potential to my emitting element.
4. The greater the potential gradient near an emitting
element, the more effective it is.
5. So an electron emitter that is based on me is
usually made into a sharp point.
6. I operate at both high and low temperatures.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Field emission
Riddle #248
1. To the Jewish I am a series of traditions associated
with major life events in Judaism.
2. To the systems engineer, I am an examination of a
system that addresses all phases of its existence.
3. To the software developer I am an object in
object-oriented programming.
4. In business, I am the stages in the lifespan of a
commercial or consumer product.
5. In Biology I am the sequence of life stages that an
organism undergoes from birth to reproduction
ending with the generation of the offspring.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Life cycle
Riddle #249
1. I am a physical constant that governs one of the
fundamental interactions in nature.
2. The interaction I govern is a long range one;
3. Whose effects extend over astronomical distances.
4. My value is small and the interaction I govern is
weaker than the other long range interaction of
nature.
5. I determine the strength of the interaction between
particles with mass.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Gravitational constant
Riddle #250
1. I am an element that has been known to mankind
since the 18th century (1790).
2. I am the only metal that can burn in a pure nitrogen
atmosphere.
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3. I am present in meteorites and was also found in
the rock samples brought from the moon by Apollo
11 and the subsequent missions.
4. I got my name from one of the Greek gods, which
means ‘enormous strength’.
5. If I were the chief component of the Titanic Ship,
the ship would not have sunk in the Atlantic Ocean
in 1912.
6. I am a member of the first d-transition series of the
Periodic Table, indeed the second.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Titanium
Riddle #251
1. I am an end point.
2. I am the highest point of a body part such as a
skull.
3. I am a point on a polyhedron shared by 3 or more
faces.
4. I am the intersection of the adjacent sides of a
polygon.
5. For an angle, I am the origin of the two rays
forming the angle.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vertex
Riddle #252
1. I am a self-product.
2. I am a plane figure of regular shape having four
sides.
3. My area is somehow myself.
4. My area is a2 and my perimeter is 4a.
5. I am applied to matrices as well as pyramids.
6. I am also an L-shaped or a T-shaped instrument used
for drawing or measuring a right angle.
Who am I?
ANSWER: A Square
Riddle #253
1. I am a phenomenon that was discovered by a German
physicist whose name I bear.
2. I can be used for converting thermal energy into
electrical energy.
3. I am observed with two dissimilar conductors and
4. I occur in the presence of a temperature gradient.
5. I am the phenomenon that underlies the operation of a
thermocouple.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Seebeck effect
Riddle #254
1. I am a class of compounds that occur in both
multicellular and in unicellular organisms.
2. Even though I am defined functionally, but not
structurally, I may have diverse chemical structures.
3. My synthesis may occur in specific tissues of
endocrine glands or in other specialized cells.
4. This synthesis occurs in response to specific 5. If the number of hydrogens in my molecule is an exact
biochemical signals induced by a wide range of multiple of 10, then
regulatory systems. Who am I?
5. I am used to communicate between organs and tissues ANSWER: Nonane (C9H20)
to regulate physiological and behavioural activities. RIDDLE 259
Who am I? 1. I am a globe shaped structure.
ANSWER: Hormone 2. I am surrounded by a socket.
Riddle #255 3. My name means to measure or estimate roughly by
1. I was born on March 30th, 1811 to German parents in sight.
Gӧttingen, Germany. 4. I am also used to refer to an overhead light fixture that
2. My father was a Professor of Modern Languages and is mounted on a swivel in a recessed socket so the light
Head Librarian at the University of Gӧttingen. can be directed in any direction.
3. I entered University of Gӧttingen in 1828 and took to 5. I am covered externally by the eyelids
the sciences, reading Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics 6. I am the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate
and some Geology and Botany. eye
4. After obtaining a PhD in 1830 at the age of 19, I toured WHO AM I?
chemical laboratories in Europe to study chemical ANSWER: Eyeball
techniques. RIDDLE 260
5. In 1833 at the age of 22, I started working as a 1. Owing to my size and distinctive structure, I was
Chemistry lecturer in my alma mater. one of the first organelles to be discovered and
6. My intense interest in the analyses of elements based observed in detail
on colour they produce in a flame, led me to invent a 2. I am found in most eukaryotic cells
suitable gas burner that gives a colourless flame. 3. I was discovered with the help of special staining
Who am I? techniques.
ANSWER: (Robert) Bunsen.
4. However, my structure was only revealed by the
Riddle 256
7. I am an integer.
electron microscope
8. My smallest value is 1. 5. I consist of a stack of flattened membrane-bound
9. My largest known value is relatively small, less than sacs called cisternae
120. 6. I was discovered by an Italian physician, Camillo
10. I describe a nuclide. Golgi, during an investigation of the nervous
11. I distinguish hydrogen from helium from lithium from system
beryllium and so on. WHO AM I?
Who am I? ANSWER: Golgi Apparatus/ Golgi Body/Golgi
ANSWER: Atomic number complex/Dictyosome
RIDDLE 261
1. I operate on the basis of an effect that is
RIDDLE 257
1. I am Greek in origin.
sometimes undesirable.
2. Among my proponents are Aristotle, Plato, Euclid and 2. I am however very useful
Pythagoras. 3. You may find me in electronic appliances and
3. My name suggests I have something to do with the electrical installations.
earth by way of measurements. 4. I use mutual inductance to desirable effect.
4. I am a branch of Mathematics. 5. I transform voltages in alternating circuits.
5. In my basic form, I am concerned with points, lines Who am I?
and planes. ANSWER: Transformer
Who am I? RIDDLE 262
ANSWER: GEOMETRY 1. I am an inorganic substance
RIDDLE 258
2. I may be produced when a certain metal is burnt
1. I am a hydrocarbon.
2. I am fully saturated.
in excess air
3. I have a straight backbone. 3. I dissolve in water to give a solution which turns
4. The number of carbons in my molecule is an odd red litmus blue
number which is also a square of an odd prime 4. The metal from which I am formed is never
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 5. That metal is the eighth most abundant element in
the earth’s crust with atomic number 12
Who am I?
ANSWER: Magnesium oxide (MgO)
RIDDLE 263
1. I am a property of geometrical figures.
2. Two figures with me fit exactly on each other.
3. As an example, two circles with the same radius
satisfy me.
4. Two line segments with same length satisfy me.
5. I represent equality in size and shape.
6. For triangles, recall ASA, SSS, SAS.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Congruence
RIDDLE 264
1. I am found in warm habitats that range from rain
forest to desert conditions
2. I belong to a family that was divided into two
subfamilies, by Klaver and Böhme in 1986.
3. My skin has a superficial layer which contains
pigments,
4. I have two superimposed layers within my skin
that control my colour and thermoregulation.
5. If my tongue was a car, it could accelerate from 0
to 60 mph in 1/100th of a second
6. My species come in a range of colours, and many
of my species have the ability to change colours.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Chameleon
RIDDLE 265
1. I am a property of a substance that is known to
and used by all
2. I hate temperatures higher than ambient
temperatures
3. I am attributed to certain non–organic ions present
4. My name suggests I can hardly be persistent
5. I can cause you to spend on soaps for your laundry
and other related activities.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Temporary Hardness of water
RIDDLE 266
1. I am a line segment.
2. I connect two points on a curve.
3. I am more popularly associated with a circle.
4. You can strike me.
5. I am also a harmonious combination of
musical notes.
Who am I?
ANSWER: A Chord
RIDDLE 267
7. I am an element.
8. I exist as molecules.
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9. In the earth’s atmosphere or crust you would
hardly find me in the free state.
10. The irony is that I am the most abundant element
in the entire universe.
11. I form an explo0sive mixture with the second most
abundant gas in the earth’s atmosphere.
12. My atomic number is 1 and it is believed most
elements are derived from me..
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hydrogen (gas or element)
RIDDLE 268
1. My name is in two parts.
2. The first part represents a tall punctuation mark
typically used in matched pairs within text, to set
apart or interject other text.
3. The second part refers to a type of decomposer.
4. I am mainly found on trees (living and dead) and
coarse woody debris.
5. Characteristically, I produce bracket-shaped or
occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks.
6. I often grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like
trees or wood.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Bracket Fungi
RIDDLE 269
1. Perpendiculars are my dwelling place.
2. It seems there is something right about me.
3. I am formed from two perpendicular line segments
or rays with a common vertex.
4. When a straight angle is bisected there are two of
me.
5. Of course I am an angle.
6. My radian measure is half of a pie.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Right Angle
RIDDLE 270
1. I am a property of a substance.
2. I characterize phase changes.
3. My SI unit is joule per kilogram.
4. I am the thermal energy required for the
isothermal phase change of unit mass of
substance.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Specific latent heat
RIDDLE 271
1. While my father’s ancestors were all farmers, I
decided to stay in the classroom and lecture
rooms.
2. I was born in Sweden.
3. My love for mathematics ended me in University
of Uppsala to study physical sciences.
4. I worked under a Professor in the Swedish WHO AM I?
Academy of Sciences. ANSWER: Fertilizer
5. Though I wrote a thesis on electrolytes I am better RIDDLE 276
known for a Theory of acids and bases. 1. If I and my friends were boxers, we would
Who am I? belong to the heavy weight division.
ANSWER: (Svante) Arrhenius 2. We are mainly organic substances with big
molecules.
RIDDLE 272 3. Our bodies do not hate repeated units, in fact
1. I am a three digit number between 300 and we love them.
400. 4. We are formed from the combination of many
2. The sum of my digits is 15. small units.
3. All my digits are prime numbers. 5. We may be classified as Addition or
4. My digits are consecutive odd numbers. Condensation depending on the chemistry of
5. My middle digit is the average of my first and the combination of the units.
last digits. Who are we?
Who am I? ANSWER: Polymers
ANSWER: 357 RIDDLE 277
RIDDLE 273 1. I am a trigonometric ratio.
1. I am an organic compound 2. To be precise I am the reciprocal of a
2. My molecules have only carbon and hydrogen trigonometric ratio.
atoms 3. I am the co- of a trigonometric ratio.
3. My shape can be used to illustrate the perfect 4. For 45°, I am 1.
tetrahedral shape 5. For 0°, I am undefined.
4. I am a hydrocarbon with only one carbon in 6. For 90°, I am nothing.
my molecule Who am I?
5. I am a gas obtained from natural sources and ANSWER: Cotangent
therefore called Natural Gas RIDDLE 278
Who am I? 1. I am a sub-cellular structure.
ANSWER: Methane (CH4) 2. I am found predominantly in protists and in
RIDDLE 274 unicellular algae.
1. I am a type of magnetic material. 3. My number per cell varies, depending on the
2. I am a linear material; species.
3. That is, my magnetization varies linearly with 4. I was previously known as pulsatile.
magnetic field. 5. I act as part of a protective mechanism that
4. I have negative susceptibility. prevents the cell from absorbing too much
5. I am repelled by the poles of a strong magnet. water and possibly lysing through excessive
Who am I? internal pressure.
ANSWER: Diamagnetic material 6. As my name suggests, I expel water out of
RIDDLE 275 the cell by contracting.
1. I am a material of natural or synthetic origin. Who am I?
2. I may be applied as a solid or liquid. ANSWER: Contractile vacuole
3. I am applied to soils or to plant tissues (usually RIDDLE 279
leaves) to supply one or more plant nutrients 1. I am a property of a solid material.
essential to the growth of plants. 2. I operate by Hooke, never by crook.
4. I am classified according to whether I provide 3. I characterize elastic deformations.
a single nutrient or provide two or more 4. I am quite Young.
nutrients. Who am I?
5. I am commonly used for growing all crops, ANSWER: Young’s modulus
with application rates depending on the soil RIDDLE 280
fertility. 1. We live in all the world's oceans, in fresh
6. I am known to be the main contributor to the water, and on land,
eutrophication of fresh water bodies.
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 2. We are generally covered with a thick
exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws.
3. We are decapod crustaceans
4. We make up about 20% of all marine
crustaceans caught, farmed, and consumed
worldwide
5. The mode of articulation of our legs makes a
sidelong gait more efficient than forward
movement
6. We typically walk sideways, a behaviour
which gives us the word crabwise
Who are we?
ANSWER: Crabs
RIDDLE 281
1. Part of me can be found in a chemistry lab by
combining different elements
2. I am a combination of two inequalities.
3. My solution set is the intersection or union of
two sets.
4. An example of me is ‘2x + 1 > 5 and 3x - 5
< 25’.
5. To solve me, solve the component inequalities
and find their intersection or union as
appropriate.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Compound Inequality
RIDDLE 282
1. I am a hydrocarbon
2. My carbons are in a ring
3. My molecular formula would also suggest a
straight chain hydrocarbon with one triple
bond
4. My number of carbons is a product of two
prime numbers
5. I have something in common with benzene
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cyclohexene
RIDDLE 283
1. I am a field.
2. I am described by field lines.
3. My field lines are closest together where my field
strength is greatest.
4. My field lines originate and terminate on point
sources and point sinks.
5. My point sources are positive and my point sinks
are negative electric charges.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Electric field
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RIDDLE 284
1. In the scientific method, I am an empirical
procedure.
2. I am used to verify, refute, or validate a
hypothesis.
3. I provide insight into cause-and-effect by
demonstrating what outcome occurs when a
particular factor is manipulated.
4. I vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on
repeatable procedures and logical analysis of the
results.
5. Researchers also use me to test existing theories or
new hypotheses to support or disprove them.
Who am i?
ANSWER: Experiment
RIDDLE 285
1. I am a collection of some basic statements.
2. These are described as postulates by scientists.
3. For gases at ordinary temperatures and pressure, I
do not acknowledge the presence of their units,
molecules or atoms.
4. I am able to explain why gases exert pressure.
5. If I only begin to see the sizes of the molecules or
atoms of gases when the gases are under very high
pressures or at very low temperatures, then
Who am I?
ANSWER: Kinetic Theory of Matter/Gases or
Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter/Gases.
RIDDLE 286
1. I am a type of material frequently used in
electronic devices.
2. I am semiconducting.
3. I may contain two types of charge carriers—
electrons and holes;
4. But I have a larger concentration of electrons
than of holes.
5. Who am I?
6. ANSWER: N type semiconductor
RIDDLE 287
1. My name suggests I sort out things.
2. At stationary points I yield zero.
3. I am used to derive.
4. I yield the gradient function.
5. I am the process for determining the gradient
of the tangent to a curve.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Differentiation
RIDDLE 288
1. I am an element discovered in 1826
2. I am one of those elements whose smallest
units are not atoms but molecules
3. I have a boiling point of about 59oC
 4. I am used in making fumigants, flame
proofing agents, water purification
compounds, sanitizers and many more useful
products
5. I am the only liquid non–metallic element and
my colour is reddish–brown
Who am I?
ANSWER: Bromine
RIDDLE 289
1. I am a composite organism
2. My properties are very different from the
properties of my component organisms
3. I come in many colours, sizes, and forms
4. I normally grow on the bark of trees, leaves,
mosses, bare rock, walls, gravestones, roofs
and exposed soil surfaces
5. I arise from algae or cyanobacteria living
among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic
relationship
Who am I?
ANSWER: Lichen
RIDDLE 290
1. I am a heavenly body.
2. I am visible in the night sky.
3. I am a solitary satellite.
4. I orbit the only presently known habitable
planet in the solar system.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Moon
RIDDLE 291
1. I am a term of common parlance, but I have no
universally recognised precise definition.
2. I provide ecosystem services to humans and
serve as tourist attractions.
3. I account for 75% of the gross primary
productivity of the Earth's biosphere.
4. I am the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of
Earth.
5. I am a large area of land covered with trees or
other woody vegetation.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Forest
RIDDLE 292
1. I am a quadrilateral.
2. My diagonals bisect each other so I may be a
parallelogram.
3. An angle of mine is a right angle.
4. My diagonals are perpendicular.
5. I am both equilateral and equiangular.
Who am I?
ANSWER: A Square
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RIDDLE 293
1. I am a process in chemistry and other related
fields.
2. I am usually very destructive but if properly
controlled can provide lots of benefits.
3. While my reactants are usually organic matter,
water vapour is formed as a product.
4. A poisonous gas or a greenhouse gas or both
may be formed in addition to the water vapour
depending on the circumstances.
5. I usually provide heat and sometimes light but
it is the former which is most useful to
Ghanaians especially the Ministry of energy.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Combustion
RIDDLE 294
1. I am a type of interaction.
2. Because I am an inverse square law force,
3. I am said to be long range.
4. If I had charges as does that other long range
force, they would all have only one sign.
5. I am always attractive.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Gravitational interaction
RIDDLE 295
1. We are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates
2. We inhabit a wide variety of habitats
3. We use our skin as a secondary respiratory
surface
4. Our young ones generally undergo
metamorphosis from larva with gills to an
adult air-breathing form with lungs
5. Our name is derived from an Ancient Greek
term, which means "both kinds of life”.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Amphibians
RIDDLE 296
1. I am a two-digit number.
2. My digits are identical.
3. The sum of my digits is 18.
4. I am the largest of my kind.
5. Each digit is the square of a prime digit.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 99
RIDDLE 297
1. You cannot touch me with your bare fingers
whether I am in my natural state or in an
aqueous solution
2. As a solid I am highly hygroscopic
3. I am usually prepared in Ghana and elsewhere
in West Africa in semi – large quantities using
not so sophisticated set – ups
 4. In other parts of the world I am produced by ANSWER: (A) Gill
electrolysis RIDDLE 302
5. I am supposed to be caustic, though needed for 1. If I were a nation, my currency would
making soft soap definitely be electrons, nothing else.
Who am I? 2. But I am not a nation but only a kind of a
ANSWER: KOH or Caustic Potash chemical process.
RIDDLE 298 3. I hate electrons which move forward and
1. If I were of a biological disposition, I backward.
could be a pathological swelling or 4. Physically I do operate in a single room most
enlargement; of the time.
2. Or a mass of one kind of tissue enclosed in 5. I need an external source of electrons,
a different kind of tissue. produced by a device with two poles with a
3. But I am only a zero. potential difference.
4. A standing wave on a string fixed at both Who am I?
ends has one of me in the first overtone; ANSWER: Electrolysis
5. And two of me in the second overtone. RIDDLE 303
Who am I? 1. In logic I am a class of objects or individuals
ANSWER: Node that can be divided into two or more groups.
RIDDLE 299 2. In mathematics I am a number characterizing a
1. I am a function. closed surface in topology.
2. Really as a function, there is nothing odd about me. 3. In biology I am any of the taxonomic groups
3. Examples of me are y = x2 and y = cosx. into which a family is divided.
4. My graph is symmetric about the y-axis. 4. Specifically, I am a group of organisms
5. If my equation is of the form y = f(x), then f(-x) = f(x). ranking above a species and below a family
Who am I? 5. Generally, I consist of a group of species
ANSWER: Even Function exhibiting similar characteristics.
RIDDLE 300 Who am I?
1. I am an organic compound with molecules ANSWER: Genus
containing a line or plane of symmetry RIDDLE 304
2. I have no rings 1. In my shortened form, I am a kind of hairstyle.
3. My molecular structure can be likened to that 2. I am a one to one mapping of a set onto itself.
of a bird, a central body with two wings of 3. In music, I am an arrangement.
equal length on the sides 4. Normally I am an arrangement of objects in a
4. The carbonyl group constitutes the body of the set.
bird 5. nPr is a common expression with me.
5. The wings are three sp3 carbons each on both Who am I?
sides of the carbonyl ANSWER: Permutation
Who am I? RIDDLE 305
ANSWER: 4–Heptanone 1. I am a model of the atom.
RIDDLE 301 2. Although I successfully describe atomic
1. I may be a unit of volume or capacity energy levels,
2. I am used in dry and liquid measure, which is 3. This success is confined to one-electron atoms.
equal to 1/4 of a British Imperial pint (142 4. I fail to give an accurate account of atomic
millilitres). angular momentum.
3. I am also a respiratory organ found in many 5. And my postulate of circular electron orbits of
aquatic organisms definite radius is at odds with reality.
4. I usually consist of thin filaments of tissue Who am I?
5. In bony fishes, I lie in a branchial chamber ANSWER: Bohr model
covered by a bony operculum. Riddle 306
6. Sharks and rays typically have five pairs of me 1. I am a phenomenon associated with waves.
in the form of slits. 2. I occur at the boundary between two material
Who am I? media.
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 3. I only occur when the wave velocities in the
media on each side of the boundary are
different.
4. When I occur, the direction of propagation of a
wave changes
5. In such a manner that the angle of incidence is
different from the angle the outgoing wave
makes with the normal.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Refraction
RIDDLE 307
1. I am an elemental metal known to the ancient
man and woman
2. My scientific name from which my symbol is
obtained is in Latin
3. I do not occur in nature in the free state but as
a component of an ore known as
CASSITERITE
4. Nigeria is one of the nations endowed with my
ore
5. I am a constituent of the metal sheets used in
preparing the containers for canned food
Who am I?
ANSWER: Tin
RIDDLE 308
1. I am as constant as the Northern star.
2. I am a function.
3. I am a one note Samba as my range has only
one element.
4. My graph is always parallel to the x-axis.
5. I have no x-intercept.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Constant Function
RIDDLE 309
1. I am an extremely important molecule
2. I was first isolated and named by two French
scientists, a pharmacist and a chemist
3. I am a term used for several closely related
green pigments
4. My molecules are specifically arranged in and
around photosystems that are embedded in the
thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts
5. I am vital for photosynthesis, since I allow
plants to absorb energy from light
Who am I?
ANSWER: Chlorophyll
Riddle 310
6. I am a phenomenon associated with waves.
7. I occur at the boundary between two material
media.
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8. I only occur when the wave velocities in the
media on each side of the boundary are
different.
9. When I occur, the direction of propagation of a
wave changes
10. In such a manner that the angle of incidence is
different from the angle the outgoing wave
makes with the normal.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Refraction
RIDDLE 311
6. I am as constant as the Northern star.
7. I am a function.
8. I am a one note Samba as my range has only
one element.
9. My graph is always parallel to the x-axis.
10. I have no x-intercept.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Constant Function
RIDDLE 312
5. I am a phenomenon in which fundamental
particles are emitted.
6. I often occur with refractory metals,
7. But I am also known to occur with certain
compounds.
8. I am useful in x-ray generators,
9. Where I occur in the hot cathode.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Thermionic emission
RIDDLE 313
1. If I were a Minister of Finance, I would be
commended for lowering taxes all the time
2. But I am not a Minister, I am only a chemical
3. When I am in active service, no matter the
duration, my character or integrity does not
change although my outward appearance may
change
I have no effects on heats of reaction
4. My special gift is to lower the activation
energy of a system with which I am working
Who am I?
ANSWER: Catalyst
RIDDLE 314
1. I am an array of numbers but I am not a
sequence.
2. To be precise, I am a rectangular array of
numbers.
3. I am closely associated with linear
simultaneous equations.
4. I am made up of rows and columns.
5. In my square form, I produce the determinant.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Matrix
RIDDLE 315
1. I was an eminent Scottish botanist
2. I lived during the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
3. After completing my studies in medicine at the
University of Edinburgh in Scotland I joined
the army as a surgeon at the young age of 22
years.
4. I was the first person to use the term cell
nucleus in 1831
5. I did not realize that the cell nucleus was
present in cells other than those belonging to
plants.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Robert Brown
RIDDLE 316
1. I am a type of motion
2. That can occur on a straight line
3. As well as on a curve.
4. My distinguishing feature is a linear relation
between acceleration and displacement.
5. I am periodic.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Simple harmonic motion
RIDDLE 317
1. I belong to a class of organic compounds
2. Despite the fact that I belong to a class of
organic compounds, I am sometimes referred
to as a derivative of another class of
compounds
3. I am sensitive to both mineral acids and alkali
4. I am hydrolyzed by mineral acids to give two
neutral molecules A and B; A gives
effervescence with NaHCO3 and B evolves
hydrogen with sodium metal
5. While A has 4 carbons in a straight chain B
has only one carbon
Who am I?
ANSWER: Methyl butanoate
RIDDLE 318
1. I belong to a kingdom of twins
2. You may describe me as being conservative
because I resist changes
3. I change only if the new idea will make a
significant impact
4. I am a two – in – one entity since one cannot
function without the other
5. The two parts in me have a conjugate
relationship
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6. I resist changes in pH when small quantities of
either an acid or a base are added to the
medium in which I am present
Who am I?
ANSWER: Buffer
RIDDLE 319
1. I am a dynamical property of a moving
object.
2. I am associated with rotational motion.
3. I may be varying even when the net force
on an object is zero.
4. I am to rotational motion what linear
momentum is to rectilinear motion.
5. I am constant when net torque is zero.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Angular momentum
RIDDLE 320
1. I am the action or fact of carefully choosing
someone or something as being the best or
most suitable
2. In computing, I am a list of items on which
user operations will take place
3. I am also used to refer to the pressures on
cells and organisms to evolve
4. I do not guarantee that advantageous traits or
alleles become prevalent within a population
5. I only occur when the individuals of a
population are diverse in their characteristics
Who am I?
ANSWER: Selection
RIDDLE 321
1. I am a two-digit number.
2. I am a prime.
3. I am 3 short of a score.
4. The sum of my digits is a cube of an even
prime.
5. I am five more than a dozen.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 17
RIDDLE 322
1. I have long played an important role in human
societies.
2. In object-oriented programming, I am the
ability to derive new classes, from existing
classes
3. Mind you, I should not be confused with
subtyping
4. In law I am the hereditary succession to an
estate, title, etc.4
5. I am the process of genetic transmission of
traits from parents to offspring.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Inheritance ANSWER: Cork
RIDDLE 323 RIDDLE 327
1. I am a three digit number. 1. I am a type of gas.
2. I lie between 100 and 200. 2. I exhibit a tendency to condense.
3. I am an exact square. 3. So I am not an ideal gas.
4. I am an even number. 4. My equation of state is similar to that of an ideal
5. The sum of my digits is 16. gas;
Who am I? 5. But the volume term is smaller by a quantity that
ANSWER: 196 takes the actual volume of my molecules into
account.
Who am I?
RIDDLE 324 ANSWER: van der Waals gas
1. I am a device for generating high potential RIDDLE 328
differences. 1. I am a 2-digit number.
2. I produce such high potential differences I have 2. Both digits are prime.
been used in particle accelerators. 3. I am an even number.
3. I only produce modest current levels. 4. My first digit exceeds the second digit by 5.
4. So you are not likely to be harmed if you were to 5. I am six dozens.
touch the dome of the version of me you find in a Who am I?
student laboratory; ANSWER: 72
5. However, your hair may stand on end. Riddle 329
Who am I? 1. I am a three digit odd number between 700
ANSWER : Van de Graaf generator and 800.
RIDDLE 325 2. I am a square as well as a cube.
1. I am a solid solution. 3. I am an odd number.
2. My solvent is a liquid of a kind, and my solute 4. As a power, three plays a prominent role in my
is a solid. base.
3. My solvent bears the name of the planet in the 5. The number formed by my first two digits is
solar system nearest to the sun. six dozens.
4. My solute belongs to Group 1. 6. My last digit is an exact square.
5. My solute is the first metal of Group 1. Who am I?
Who am 1? ANSWER: 729
ANSWER: Lithium amalgam RIDDLE 330
RIDDLE 326 1. I may be the disposition of an individual to
1. I am a two-digit number. assert control in dealing with others.
2. I am a square. 2. In neurology i am the normal tendency for
3. I am also a square of a square. one side of the brain to be more important
4. I am an odd number. than the other in controlling certain functions
5. The sum of my digits is an odd square. 3. In ecology I am the degree of predominance
Who am I? of one or a few species in an ecological
ANSWER: 81 community
RIDDLE 326 4. In genetics I am a relationship between
1. I was first examined microscopically by alleles of one gene,
Robert Hooke. 5. In the relationship the effect on phenotype of
2. I am an impermeable, buoyant material of one allele masks the contribution of a second
plant origin. allele at the same locus
3. I am harvested for commercial use. WHO AM I?
4. A tree continues to live and grow even when I ANSWER: Dominance
am removed. RIDDLE 331
5. I am used in a variety of products, the most 1. I am a metal, and my origin is rather obscure
common of which is wine stoppers. hence my name.
Who am I?
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 2. When I am pure I am shiny and bluish–white
in colour.
3. I am a confused citizen of the Periodic Table,
because though I live among the transition
metals. my chemistry mostly belongs to that of
the Main Group Elements.
4. I am a constituent member of an alloy, that has
served mankind since ancient times.
5. If all elements are arranged in alphabetical
order, I am surely among the last two.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Zinc
RIDDLE 332
1. I am the simplest in my family.
2. But I am not that simple to describe accurately,
3. Even though I am made up of only two particles,
4. One of which is fundamental.
5. The first somewhat successful model of me was
constructed by Niels Bohr
6. Who calculated my energy spectrum?
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hydrogen atom
RIDDLE 333
1. I am used to refer to the relocation of forces
for the purpose of increasing survivability.
2. I may also be used to refer to the splitting up
of a group of people, causing them to leave in
different directions.
3. In biology I am used to refer to the movement
of individuals from their birth site to their
breeding site.
4. Or the movement from one breeding site to
another.
5. I am simply the movement or transport of
seeds away from the parent plant.
Who Am I?
ANSWER: Dispersal
RIDDLE 334
1. I am a number between 1 and 10
2. Expressed as a binary number, my last digit is
0.
3. I am an exact square
4. I am a sum of a prime with itself.
5. I am also the product of a prime with itself
Who am I?
ANSWER: 4
RIDDLE 335
1. I am an inorganic salt, sparingly soluble in
water.
2. I have 4 different elements, one metal and
three non–metals in my formula.
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3. In my normal form there is always a molecule
of water hiding between two of my remaining
units.
4. When I am mixed with water I set to give a
very hard material.
5. Paris is my favourite holiday city.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Plaster of Paris or CaSO4. ½
H2O
RIDDLE 336
1. I am a property of a material object.
2. I have the same value for a particle and its
antiparticle.
3. I am a measure of the quantity of matter in
an object.
4. I am to the gravitational interaction what
charge is to the electromagnetic
interaction.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Mass
RIDDLE 337
1. I am virtually everywhere on this planet
2. Though I am a stable compound it is my
polymeric form that you are most familiar with
3. My polymers may or may not be edible
4. My molecules can exist in the open straight
chain form or in a heterocyclic form
5. If you find me in my open chain form you can
easily trap my alkanal functional group
6. Breakdown starch or cellulose by hydrolysis
and you would find me
Who am I?
ANSWER: Glucose
RIDDLE 338
1. I am an empirical property
2. Used to characterize two surfaces in
contact.
3. I am used to quantify the dissipative force
4. That acts when two surfaces are in relative
motion.
5. I am dimensionless.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Coefficient of kinetic friction
RIDDLE 339
1. My name comes from Classical Latin which
literally means "obtained by digging"
2. I vary in size from microscopic to very large
forms
3. I range in age from the youngest to the oldest
4. I may also consist of the marks left behind by
the organism while it was alive
 5. Precicely, I am the preserved remains or traces 4. My second digit is the product of the roots of
of animals, plants, and other organisms from the same equation.
the remote past. 5. My last digit is the difference of my first two
Who am I? digits.
ANSWER: Fossil Who am I?
RIDDLE 340 ANSWER: 352
1. I am a quadrilateral RIDDLE 345
2. My diagonals are perpendicular 1. I am a thin component or appendage attached
3. I fit my outline in two positions to a larger body or structure.
4. I have two pairs of congruent sides 2. I typically function as foil that produce lift or
5. I have one axis of symmetry which is a thrust.
diagonal 3. I may be a membranous appendage extending
Who am I? from the body of some organisms.
ANSWER: KITE 4. I am an organ of locomotion and balance in
RIDDLE 341 some aquatic animals.
1. I am a type of mechanical disturbance 5. In most fishes, I may be paired or unpaired.
2. That propagates through a material medium. Who am I?
3. I am characterized by compressions and ANSWER: Fin
rarefactions RIDDLE 346
4. I am longitudinal, just like my cousin who is 1. I am a member of the Main Group Elements in
known to excite auditory response in humans. the Periodic Table.
5. I have no such effect on humans and I am ultra. 2. My symbol is derived from my Latin name
Who am I? which means MARK.
ANSWER: Ultrasound 3. I am not abundant in the earth’s crust but I am
RIDDLE 342 found in over 100 minerals.
1. I am an experiment 4. I belong to Group 5 or 15 of the Periodic
2. that was conducted in 1914. Table.
3. I am credited to James and Gustav 5. I am the heavier of the two semi–metals in that
4. Who used mercury when they first Group with atomic number 51.
conducted me. Who am I?
5. I am the first to demonstrate quantization of ANSWER: Antimony (Sb)
atomic energy levels. RIDDLE 347
Who am I? 1. I am a space curve.
ANSWER: Franck-Hertz experiment 2. Associated with objects that move under
RIDDLE 343 gravity.
1. I am made from part of the neural tube during 3. I have an axis of symmetry.
development. 4. Which separates upward motion from
2. I am located inside the vertebral canal downward motion.
3. In humans, I am divided into 31 different 5. I am an open curve,
segments. 6. The trajectory of projectiles near the surface of
4. I am the main pathway for information the earth.
connecting the brain and peripheral nervous Who am I?
system ANSWER: Parabola
5. The brain and I together make up the central RIDDLE 348
nervous system 1. I am a four sided figure.
Who am I? 2. You can say I am a quadrilateral.
ANSWER: The spinal cord 3. My diagonals bisect each other
RIDDLE 344 perpendicularly.
1. I am a three digit number 4. My diagonals are not congruent.
2. I am an even number. 5. You can say I am equilateral.
3. My first digit is the sum of the roots of the Who am I ?
equation x2 – 3x + 5 = 0. ANSWER: Rhombus
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RIDDLE 349
1. I am a quadrilateral.
2. I fit my outline in 2 positions.
3. I have no axis of symmetry.
4. I have a center of symmetry.
5. I am characterized by opposite sides being
parallel.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Parallelogram
RIDDLE 350
1. I was first observed by Gregor Mendel in 1865
during his studies of genetics in pea plants
2. I occur during meiosis in eukaryotes
3. A very noticeable feature of me is
recombination
4. I describe how different genes independently
separate from one another when reproductive
cells develop
5. I am popularly known as Mendel’s second law
Who am I?
ANSWER: (Law of) independent assortment
RIDDLE 351
1. I am a type of motion.
2. I may occur at constant velocity;
3. That is, with zero acceleration.
4. But I can also occur with non-zero
acceleration.
5. When a body undergoes my kind of motion,
every part of it is displaced by the same vector,
6. And its orientation remains unchanged.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Translation
RIDDLE 352
1. I was born in an English town not too far from
Manchester
2. My father who was a book seller, wanted me
to be an Engineer
3. When I gained admission to Cambridge
University I chose rather to read mathematics
4. I started working at the Cavsendish Laboratory
also in Cambridge after graduation and rose to
become the Head of the prestigious Laboratory
at the age of 28
5. I did a lot of work on positively charged ions
in electric and magnetic fields
6. Despite my interest in positively charged ions
I discovered the electrons and won a Noble
Prize for that in 1900 at the age of 50
Who am I?
ANSWER: J. J. Thompson
RIDDLE 353
1. You can think of me as a compass.
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2. Because I tell directions; however, I cannot
help you on a sea voyage.
3. I am a rule.
4. I assign the direction of such quantities as
magnetic field of moving charges, torque, and
angular momentum.
5. I am left-handed in a world that is a mirror
image of the real world.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Right-hand rule
RIDDLE 354
1. I am a characteristic component of tropical
rainforests.
2. I exist in all classes of plants.
3. I occur in greatest numbers in moist warm
regions.
4. I manufacture my own food in the same way
that other green plants do
5. I only grow harmlessly upon another plant and
derive my moisture and nutrients from the air,
rain, and sometimes from debris.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Epiphyte
RIDDLE 355
1. I am a colourless, gaseous compound, made
up of triatomic molecules.
2. I am only slightly soluble in water, giving a
neutral solution.
3. Chemically, I am not reactive towards both
oxidizing and reducing agents.
4. My molecules are made up of two different
elements, both being non–metallic elements in
the ratio two to one (2 to 1).
5. I decompose on heating to generate a gas that
supports combustion from the minor element
6. My major element is a close neighbour of the
minor as they differ in atomic number only by
1 and atomic mass by 2.
Who am I?
ANSWER: N2O or nitrogen (I) oxide
RIDDLE 356
1. I am a mathematical relation.
2. I am popular with numbers.
3. With me every number is related to itself and
nothing else.
4. With me, two numbers are related if their
difference is zero.
5. Equity and fairness are my hallmark.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Equality
RIDDLE 357 ANSWER: Viscous drag or fluid friction
1. To some people, I am a 1987 American
science fiction action horror movie.
2. The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the RIDDLE 362
leader of an elite special forces team. 1. I was first discovered by a scientist in 1905
3. Their mission was to rescue hostages from while studying the inheritance of coat
guerrilla territory in Central America. colour in mice.
4. But I am one of the members of an interaction 2. I cause the death of the organism that
between two organisms of unlike species. carries me.
5. To the ecologist I am an animal that lives by 3. I am usually a result of mutations in genes
preying on other organisms for food. that are essential to growth or
Who am I? development.
ANSWER: Predator 4. I may be recessive, dominant, or
RIDDLE 358 conditional depending on the gene or genes
1. I have a beautiful, shiny black colour. involved.
2. I am made up of diatomic molecules. 5. A typical example of a disease caused by
3. A molecule may be misnomer when applied to me is sickle-cell anemia,
me, because I am a sparingly soluble ionic salt. Who am I?
4. I am precipitated when H2S gas is bubbled ANSWER: Lethal gene or lethal allele
through a solution containing my cation. RIDDLE 363
5. My cation is derived from the last element of 1. I am derived from a quadratic equation.
Group 4 or 14 of the Periodic Table. 2. I am a pair of numbers.
Who am I? 3. My sum is –b/a.
ANSWER: PbS or Lead sulphide 4. My product is c/a.
Lead (II) sulphide, galena 5. In the plant world, you will normally find
RIDDLE 359 part of me underground.
1. I am probably the most important fuel. Who am I?
2. Because many fuels can be traced to me. ANSWER: Roots of a Quadratic Equation
3. Even crude oil owes its existence to me. RIDDLE 364
4. I fuel the sun. 1. Among my peers I am the first when we are
5. And the most devastating explosive devices. arranged in an alphabetical order.
Who am I? 2. I have six carbon-carbon double bonds in my
ANSWER: Hydrogen molecules.
RIDDLE 360 3. I absorb light in the visible region of the
1. I am a type of angle. electromagnetic radiation.
2. I tend to be of a large measure. 4. I am supposed to aid vision in humans.
3. I am definitely not an acute angle and neither 5. When carrots are consumed by humans a
am I an obtuse angle. yellow pigment in the carrots is broken down
4. My measure exceeds that of a straight angle to generate me, a vitamin.
but is less than that of the angle in a circle. Who am I?
5. I have a reflexive nature. ANSWER: Vitamin A or Retinol
Who am I? (not Retinal)
ANSWER: Reflex Angle RIDDLE 365
RIDDLE 361 1. I was born on the fifteenth day of a month in
1. I am a type of force. 1564.
2. In many situations, I just come along for the 2. In a town which rhymes with a popular
ride. flatbread dish.
3. You may or may not like me, 3. My last name rhymes with a region in Israel.
4. Depending on whether you are trying to 4. I have been called father of many things: of
accelerate or decelerate astronomy, of physics, and of science.
5. In air or water or oil or any fluid. 5. I am credited with the experiment at the
Who am I? leaning Tower of Pisa.
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 6. Which established that objects of different
weight fall in the same time;
7. Except that many historians believe I did not
actually conduct such an experiment.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Galileo Galilei
RIDDLE 366
1. I am a microscopic structure.
2. Although I am too small to be seen
individually, I can be seen by the naked eye in
large quantities.
3. I come in a wide variety of shapes sizes, and
surface markings.
4. In angiosperms, I am produced by the anther,
which sits on the filament in the center of the
flower.
5. I represent the male portion of the
reproductive process in angiosperms.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pollen grain
RIDDLE 367
1. I am not sure I am what I am supposed to be.
2. I am an important virtual concept in chemistry.
3. Orbitals are my tools.
4. I am in the mixing business.
5. I am able to predict or explain the shape of
molecules.
6. If my powers are derived from hybrid vigour
then
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hybridization
RIDDLE 368
1. You may not get the point but that is what I
am.
2. In Mathematics I am an undefined quantity.
3. I am the basic element of Geometry.
4. You can find me on a line, in a plane and even
space.
5. All other geometric entities consist of me.
6. Wait a minute, you must get the point by now.
Who am I?
ANSWER: The Point
RIDDLE 369
1. I am described as an unusual mechanism for
swimming.
2. I am the driving force of a body by its reaction
to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
3. I am the favoured means of forward motion
used to power various space craft.
4. I am used by some animals to move away
from threat or move forward to pounce on
prey.
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5. I am the typical method of swimming fast in
some marine invertebrates.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Jet Propulsion
RIDDLE 370
1. If I were a mathematician, you would find me
in the company of binomial expansions.
2. I have been called a law and a principle.
3. I operate in fluids,
4. In which I determine transmission of pressure.
5. I am the principle of equal transmission of
pressure in fluids.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pascal’s principle
RIDDLE 371
1. I am a transformation in the plane.
2. You can say I am a rigid body motion.
3. Mind you I am not a reflection.
4. In a way I am an interpretation.
5. I involve a vector.
6. I move every point the same distance and in
the same direction.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Translation
RIDDLE 372
1. My name and symbol start with a particular
alphabet.
2. There are eight of us in the Periodic Table
whose symbol start with a letter of this
alphabet.
3. Among the eight of us there is only one
element whose actual name does not start with
this letter of the alphabet but the symbol does.
4. I am also an exception in the sense that of the
eight I am the only one with a one–letter
symbol.
5. One of us is named after the eighth planet of
the solar system.
6. I am the major component of the air you
breathe in.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Nitrogen (element not gas)
RIDDLE 373
1. I am a rather simple device,
2. A transporter you may say;
3. From one vessel to another:
4. My cargo is always fluid,
5. The destination always lower than the port of
origination.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Siphon
RIDDLE 374
1. I am an isopod crustacean.
2. I have a shell-like exoskeleton, which I
must progressively shed as I grow.
3. I have a lot of common names that vary
throughout the English-speaking world
4. Some of my common names include: boat-
builder, cheeselog, potato bug, butcher
boy, wood bug.
5. I can roll up into an almost perfect sphere
as a defensive mechanism.
6. I am not a wood, neither am I a louse.
Who am I?
ANSWER: The woodlouse
RIDDLE 375
1. I am a ternary aromatic compound.
2. My molecular formula is the same as the
empirical formula.
3. I have a ring in my structure.
4. I am a white crystalline compound with a
molecule containing six carbons.
5. My only functional group is an OH group.
6. This makes me acidic.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Phenol. (Do not accept
Hydroxybenzene)
RIDDLE 376
1. I am the basic component of a polynomial.
2. I am a simple example of an algebraic
expression.
3. I consist of numbers and letters.
4. In Biology I will be a monoculture.
5. Two of me add up to a binomial and three of
me a trinomial.
6. Remember I am a single term.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Monomial
RIDDLE 377
1. I have been a common practice for most of
human history.
2. I was a highlight throughout Second World
War.
3. Resource shortages caused by the world war
greatly encouraged my practice.
4. I am a key component of modern waste
reduction.
5. I am the process of converting waste materials
into reusable objects.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Recycling (Recycle)
RIDDLE 378
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1. I am a Group in the Periodic Table.
2. Though my members individually have rooms
in their houses to accommodate extra
electrons, they hardly welcome them.
3. They are rather quick at pushing out electrons
to create even more vacant rooms.
4. My members feel more comfortable and stable
moving about as electron deficient entities.
5. With the exception of my first member which
is a metalloid the rest of us are all metals.
6. My Group members are fond of expelling
three electrons all at one go to form trivalent
cations,
Which group am I?
ANSWER: Group 3 or 13
RIDDLE 379
1. I am a line or a line segment.
2. I am perpendicular to the radius at the point of
contact.
3. Two of me from an external point to a circle
are congruent.
4. I meet a circle in exactly one point.
5. The angle formed by me and a chord is equal
to any angle in the alternate segment.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Tangent
RIDDLE 380
1. In origin, I am a variant form of the word
pound, meaning a confining enclosure.
2. I can result from a wide range of natural
processes.
3. But, I am frequently constructed by humans.
4. Usually, I contain shallow water with marsh
and aquatic plants and animal.
5. The most important service provided by me is
the production of fish and other wildlife
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pond
RIDDLE 381
6. I am a relation in physics.
7. That was first published in a 1924 PhD thesis
8. Whose author I am named after.
9. I have since been confirmed experimentally.
10. And I have been used in describing interference
and diffraction phenomena involving particles
such as electrons and neutrons.
11. I specify the wavelike behavior of matter.
Who am I?
ANSWER: de Broglie relation
RIDDLE 382
 1. I am a common name for certain group of
organisms that are adapted to living in water at
any point in their life cycle.
2. Most of my members can only live in fresh
water, with a few marine species that live in
the intertidal zone.
3. My adults hibernate in the underwater soil
during a large part of the year.
4. I possess a hardened elytra that forms a cavity
above my body.
5. Many of my members carry an air bubble,
called the elytra cavity, underneath their
abdomens, which provides an air supply.
6. I am a beetle that lives in water
Who am I?
ANSWER: Water Beetle
RIDDLE 383
1. I am, for all practical purposes, an aromatic
compound.
2. Strictly not every part of me can be classified
as aromatic.
3. I have as part of my molecule six sp2
hybridized carbons.
4. Those six carbons of mine are in a ring.
5. My only additional carbon is sp3 hybridized
and it is bonded to one of the sp2 carbons.
6. I am easily oxidized to benzoic acid with
acidified KMnO4 solution.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Toluene or Methylbenzene
RIDDLE 384
1. I am an ordered pair of numbers.
2. I am associated with a point in the coordinate
plane.
3. Each number indicates a distance from the
coordinate axes.
4. The first number is the abscissa.
5. The second number is the ordinate.
6. My name suggests my plurality.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Coordinates
RIDDLE 385
1. I am an equation.
2. To be precise I am a quadratic equation.
3. I need not have real roots.
4. The sum of my roots is -5/3.
5. The product of my roots is 1/3.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 3x2 + 5x + 1 = 0
RIDDLE 386
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1. In modern-day human culture, I have often
come to be viewed quite negatively.
2. But I am a vital process in nature,
3. Without decay, and I, the world would
experience a decline in new growth, due to a
shortage of nutrients,
4. I owe my existence to organisms that are
commonly referred to as detritivores.
5. I am the first stage in the recycling of nutrients
that have been used by an organism to build its
body
Who am I?
ANSWER: Decomposition
RIDDLE 389
1. I am a radioactive metal.
2. With a half-life greater than 700 million years.
3. I fission on neutron capture.
4. Into isotopes of barium and krypton.
5. Thereby producing three neutrons from one.
6. I am the target isotope in enrichment plants.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Uranium-235
RIDDLE 390
1. In my normal state, I am a gaseous organic
compound
2. I have six atoms, from two elements, in my
molecules
3. I have both sigma and pi – bonds in my
molecules
4. I can react with reagents such as HBr gas,
Bromine gas and water in the presence of
concentrated H2SO4.
5. My molecules and those of my cousins are
very sociable
6. With very little effort, thousands if not
millions of my molecules can join hands to
form giant molecules
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ethene
RIDDLE 391
1. Scientifically, I am divided into lentic systems
and lotic systems.
2. I am a renewable and variable, but finite
natural resource.
3. I am an important natural resource necessary
for the survival of all ecosystems.
4. I create a hypotonic environment for aquatic
organisms.
5. I can be defined as water with less than 500
parts per million (ppm) of dissolved salts.
Who am I? 4. My production from an oxide of my metal is
ANSWER: Freshwater usually accompanied by evolution of large
RIDDLE 392 amounts of heat.
1. I am a two digit number. 5. In my raw form I am used in neutralizing
2. I am an odd number. acidic soils
3. The sum of my digits is a cube of an even 6. My nick–name suggests I am a modified citrus
prime. fruit but I am not.
4. My last digit is an identity for an arithmetical Who am I?
operation. ANSWER: Slaked lime or calcium
5. I am just short of 6 dozens. hydroxide or Ca(OH)2
Who am I? RIDDLE 396
ANSWER: 71 1. In nutrition I am a breakfast cereal
RIDDLE 393 manufactured by Kellogg's Canada.
1. I am a salt, comprising a simple cation and 2. In computer science I am a one-dimensional
a simple anion. array.
2. I am soluble in cold water but insoluble in 3. In molecular biology I am a vehicle used to
petroleum ether. transfer genetic material to a target cell.
3. If a drop of my aqueous solution is 4. I am also used to refer to any agent that carries
dropped into a colourless flame, the flame and transmits an infectious pathogen into
will become intense golden yellow. another living organism.
4. My anion is derived from an element in 5. In Physics I am used to represent physical
Group 7 or 17. quantities that have both magnitude and
5. The alcoholic aqueous solution of that direction
element can be used as an antiseptic. Who am I?
6. That same element forms a blue complex ANSWER: Vector
with starch. RIDDLE 397
Who am I?
ANSWER: Sodium iodide or NaI 1. I am a point in space.
RIDDLE 394 2. I am not fixed in space as a casual observation
1. I am one of the particles that make up matter. would suggest,
2. I have mass so I can interact with other 3. Because orbital precession causes long-period
particles via the gravitational force. periodic changes in my location.
3. However, my principal interaction is 4. My name reminds one of a fermented
electromagnetic. beverage made from pears.
4. I have been described as the real object that 5. But I am always the closest to the Sun;
comes closest to a mathematical point. 6. Earth only passes through me once a year.
5. But I am no mere point: a mass of order Who am I?
−30 1 −19 ANSWER: Perihelion
10 kg , spin- 2 , charge of order −10 C , and RIDDLE 398
extra nuclear in atoms; 1. I am a number.
6. I give electricity both its name and character. 2. I am a natural number.
Who am I? 3. I and my siblings are the building blocks for
ANSWER: Electron factorization of integers.
RIDDLE 395 4. I have only two divisors, myself and the
1. I am an inorganic substance, sparingly soluble multiplicative identity.
in water. 5. Numbers of my type are normally odd with
2. I have a cation derived from a very important one notable exception.
metal, which is present in a lot of substances, 6. You can say I am in the prime of my life.
animate and inanimate. Who am I?
3. I belong to the Lowry–Bronsted kingdom ANSWER: Prime Number
RIDDLE 399
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2. Which can carry radiation over very long distances?
3. I have a very small transverse dimension,
4. With optical properties that vary outward from the
centre.
5. In one embodiment, I am called step index because
refractive index in the central portion is slightly larger
than refractive index in the surrounding cladding.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Optical fiber
RIDDLE 400
1. I am the point of intersection of the medians to a
triangle.
2. I am a useful point of concurrency, especially in
Physics.
3. For a thin uniform triangular plate, I am the center
of mass of the triangle.
4. Such a triangular plate can be balanced at me.
5. I am often referred to as a center of gravity.
Who am I?
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RIDDLE 401 5. I am the bony structure that forms the head in
1. I am a sub–class of a broad class of reactions in the human skeleton.
chemistry Who am I?
2. I am quite often cited in connection with organic ANSWER: The Skull / Cranium
reactions RIDDLE 404
3. I usually proceed through polar intermediates 1. I am a type of number.
4. At the end of the reaction, careful inspection will
2. People think there is something logical about
reveal a new comer in the reactant molecule with
concurrent departure of some unit of the reactant. me because of my name.
5. In my sub–class of the reaction type, each reaction 3. I normally comprise of two integers with the
is initiated by a species with an electron pair second not being zero.
6. The reaction of a primary-alkylhalide with the 4. I am just a ratio hence my name.
hydroxide ion is a typical example of me. 5. I am the quotient of two integers.
Who am I? 6. I am simply a fraction.
ANSWER: Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction Who am I?
RIDDLE 402 ANSWER: Rational Number
1. I am a porous tissue consisting of cells with large RIDDLE 405
intercellular spaces 1. I am a chemical with a rather long name.
2. I am found as raised circular, oval, or elongated
2. Most chemistry students do not know that I
areas on stems and roots
can be used as a laxative; to them I am a kind
3. My shape is one of the characteristics used for tree
identification. of a dye.
4. My formation usually begins beneath stomatal 3. Like a chameleon I change my colour
complexes during primary growth preceding the depending on my environment.
development of the first periderm 4. Indeed I change my colour as pH changes.
5. I am also present on many fruits, quite noticeably 5. Obviously I am useful in Volumetric
on many apples and pears. Analyses.
6. I function as a pore, providing a pathway for the 6. I am pink in solutions of high pH and
direct exchange of gases between the internal colourless in solutions at pH 8 or lower.
tissues and atmosphere through the bark Who am I?
Who am I? ANSWER: Phenolphthalein
ANSWER: Lenticel(s)
RIDDLE 406
RIDDLE 403
1. You can say I am against logarithms.
1. I am an emission process.
2. I am in the opposition so far as logarithms are
2. I occur in the presence of photons,
concerned.
3. But I also occur when no photons are present.
3. For 1, I am 10 so far as common logarithms
4. I generate photons whose properties are not
are concerned.
correlated with those of photons already
4. For 2, I am 9 in base 3.
present.
5. I am the reverse process so far as logarithms
5. So my product is distinguishable from that of a
are concerned.
stimulated process.
6. For a given logarithm, I determine the
Who am I?
corresponding number.
ANSWER: Spontaneous emission
Who am I?
ANSWER: Antilogarithm
RIDDLE 403
RIDDLE 407
1. I am a complex structure.
1. I am a viscous, non-Newtonian fluid.
2. I am initially made up of many separate bony
2. Normally, I am clear, pale yellow, sticky, and
elements.
do not clot.
3. During development, many of these bony
3. I am an ultrafiltrate from blood plasma,
elements gradually fuse together into solid
4. I contain proteins derived from the blood
bone.
plasma and proteins that are produced by cells
4. I support the structures of the face and form a
within the joint tissues.
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 5. My principal role is to reduce friction between 1. I am a point of concurrency associated with a
the articular cartilages of synovial joints triangle.
during movement. 2. I am a meeting point of three lines associated with a
Who am I? triangle.
3. I am in a way a center of some sort.
ANSWER: Synovial fluid
4. I am not the in-center and neither am I the circum-
RIDDLE 408 center.
1. I am a gas giant. 5. I am the point at which the three altitudes of a
2. I am quite massive, triangle meet.
3. Though not as massive as my neighbor Who am I?
4. Who was the site of the spectacular encounter ANSWER: Ortho-Center
with Shoemaker-Levy in 1994. RIDDLE 413
5. I am home to Janus, Titan, and Phoebe. 1. I am always a ratio, constant at constant
Who am I? temperatures.
ANSWER: Saturn 2. If you guessed that I was a kind of equilibrium
RIDDLE 409 constant, you were not wrong.
3. My numerator is always made up of two terms.
1. The mystery about me is whether I am a gas or
4. One of the terms in the numerator is the hydroxide
a liquid. ion concentration.
2. Ideally I should be part of every home but in 5. The second term in the numerator and the only
Ghana I am not. denominator are directly related
3. While you have your freedom of movement, I 6. I am better known to be a measure of the strength
do not have that luxury. of weak bases.
4. I am stored in a limited space under extreme Who am I?
pressure all the time. ANSWER: Base Dissociation Constant, Kb
5. I am originally part of a liquid solution, dark RIDDLE 414
brown in colour. 1. I am a process that usually occurs as part of a
6. I am the first to be collected during fractional larger cell cycle.
2. For simple unicellular organisms, such as the
distillation of the liquid solution.
amoeba, one of me is equivalent to reproduction.
Who am I? 3. Regardless of the organism in which I occur, I am
ANSWER: Liquified Petroleum Gas or LPG preceded by a single round of DNA replication.
RIDDLE 410 4. My primary concern is the maintenance of the
1. I am a disturbance that transports energy. original cell's genome.
2. I am a type of wave. 5. I am the process by which a parent cell divides into
3. I am characterized by oscillations two or more daughter cells
perpendicular to the direction of propagation. Who am I?
4. I propagate through vacuum. ANSWER: Cell division
5. I am characterized by oscillating electric and Riddle 415
magnetic fields. 1. I am an inorganic substance made up of one
Who am I? atom of a metal and an atom of a non-metal.
ANSWER: Electromagnetic wave 2. I am a black powder
RIDDLE 411 3. When I am strongly heated I give out oxygen
1. Out of the many, a few. gas
2. That is who I am—a condenser you may say. 4. My metal component is the major constituent
3. I combine particles to form particles with larger of the alloy, bronze
mass than the starting ones. Who am I?
4. I can be accompanied by generation or absorption ANSWER: Copper (II) Oxide or CuO
of energy, depending on starting conditions. (Cu2O is orange-yellow)
5. If you knew my secrets, you could reconstruct the Riddle 416
entire periodic table:
1. I am the rule so far as partial fractions are
6. Hydrogen into deuterium into helium and on and
on and on. concerned.
Who am I? 2. I am used to obtain coefficients when a rational
ANSWER: Nuclear fusion expression is expressed in partial fractions.
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3. As the name suggests, unwanted coefficients are 3. The sum of my digits is 16.
literally covered up or hidden by an appropriate 4. My last 2 digits differ by 3 and my first digit is the
substitution. first natural number.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: Cover-up rule ANSWER: 169
Riddle 417 Riddle 423
1. I am a type of flying insect 1. The atomic number of my atoms is an odd
2. The first six letters my name signifies a legendary number but the atomic mass is an even
creature, typically with traits of reptiles, that number.
features in the myths of many cultures. 2. I am an element that exists in nature as
3. I belong to the order Odonata molecules
4. I am among the fastest flying insects in the world 3. I do support life of animals in a different way.
Who am I? 4. I do not encourage destruction the way my
ANSWER: Dragon fly next door neighbours does
5. If I hold the majority shares of about 80% of
RIDDLE 418 the atmosphere, then
1. I am a vector quantity. Who am I?
2. I am a property of a moving object. ANSWER: N2 or Nitrogen gas.
3. My rate of change tells the force on a moving Riddle 424
object. 5. I am an optical device.
4. I am the product of mass and velocity. 6. I have a curved reflecting surface.
Who am I? 7. I form virtual images of real objects placed
ANSWER: Linear momentum between me and my focal point.
RIDDLE 419 8. I am called concave.
1. When I am dissolved in water, my heptatomic Who am I?
molecules disintegrate into three units
2. Two of the units are friends of Arrhenius ANSWER: Concave mirror
3. My molecules are derived from three different .
elements
Riddle 425
4. Without me transportation in Accra would
1. I am a type of bone in tetrapod vertebrates
completely come to a halt
2. My head articulates with the acetabulum in the
Who am I?
pelvic bone forming the hip joint
ANSWER: H2SO4
3. My distal part articulates with the tibia and patella
RIDDLE 420
forming the knee joint
1. I am an odd 4 digit number.
4. I provide surfaces for the attachment of leg
2. All my digits are identical and each is a square.
muscles and support the thigh
3. I am the last of my kind.
5. In vertebrates with four legs such as dogs and cats,
4. The difference of any two of my digits is zero.
I am found only in the rear legs
Who am I?
Who am I?
ANSWER: 9999
RIDDLE #421
ANSWER: Femur
1. I am a catabolic process
2. My process is completely absent in plants
RIDDLE 426
3. I am often divided into two processes, mechanical
1. I am named for a famous physicist.
and chemical.
2. I am a law of nature.
4. I am the main process by which food is broken
3. I tell the magnitude and direction of forces acting
down into simple absorbable form
on interacting objects.
WHO AM I?
4. I am called third.
ANSWER: Digestion
Who am I?
Riddle 422 ANSWER: Newton’s third law
1. I am a three digit number between 100 and 200.
2. I am a square of an odd 2 digit prime number.
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RIDDLE 427
1. Of all sets I am definitely unique. RIDDLE 431
2. I am a subset of every set. 1. I am the stuff mathematical theorems and their
3. My cardinal number is zero and I am the identity proofs are made of.
for union of sets. 2. I am simply two statements with a connective.
4. Remember empty barrels make the most noise. 3. I am generally of the form “If P, then Q”.
Who am I? 4. You must be getting what I am implying.
ANSWER: Empty set or Null set Who am I?
RIDDLE 428 ANSWER: Implication
1. We belong to a family of mainly but not
exclusively organic compounds RIDDLE 432
2. Our formulae are usually big 1. The term desmology refers to the study of me
3. We have repeating units in our systems 2. I am found in the skeletal system of the human
4. We can be classified broadly as condensation body
or addition compounds. 3. I am the fibrous tissue that connects bones to other
Who are we? bones
ANSWER: Polymers. 4. Some of my types limit the mobility of
articulations, or prevent certain movements
RIDDLE 428 altogether.
1. I am a reproductive structure found in certain 5. I gradually shrink when under tension, and return
organisms to my original shape when the tension is removed
2. I normally consist of four kinds of structures WHO AM I?
attached to the tip of a short stalk ANSWER: Ligament
3. In addition to facilitating reproduction, I have
long been admired and used by humans to Riddle 433
beautify their environment 12. I am a constituent of an atom.
4. I am also an object of romance, ritual, religion, 13. There are as many of me in an atom as the atomic
medicine and as a source of food. number of the atom.
5. I give rise to fruits and seeds. 14. I have the smallest mass of all the constituents of
WHO AM I? an atom.
ANSWER: Flower 15. I am negatively charged.
Who am I?
RIDDLE 429 ANSWER: Electron
1. I was born in 1766 and lived for 78years. RIDDLE 434
2. My major aim in life was to understand the 1. I am a law of nature.
chemical nature of matter. 2. I am named for a famous physicist.
3. My thoughts did not receive the favour of my 3. I tell the rate at which a hot object loses heat.
contemporaries 4. I am a law of cooling.
4. After several experiments I suggested that matter Who am I?
was made up of small particles called atom. Newton’s law of cooling
Who am I? RIDDLE 435
ANSWER: (John) Dalton. 1. I am associated with a statement.
2. If a statement is true, then I am false and vice-
RIDDLE 430 versa.
1. I am an optical device. 3. Put simply, any statement and I cannot be true
2. I am transparent so light can pass through me. together or false together.
3. When light rays parallel to my axis pass through 4. Who am I?
me they are refracted to pass through my focal ANSWER: Negation of a statement
point. RIDDLE 436
4. I am called convex. 1. I am the name of a certain class of chemicals.
Who am I? 2. I can be moulded into all kinds of shapes and I do
ANSWER: Convex lens come in various colours.
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 3. Sand is my commonest raw material.
4. I cool from my molten state to give an amorphous RIDDLE 442
solid 1. I am made up of symmetrical molecules
Who am I? 2. I am a hydrocarbon
Ans: Glass 3. My formula suggests that I am unsaturated but I
RIDDLE 437 am not
1. I am a taxon in the hierarchy of taxa 4. If I have 5 carbons in a ring then who am I?
2. I am the only taxon with members that share Ans: Cyclopentane
only broad and general characteristics RIDDLE 443
3. My name refers to a monarchy ruled by a king 1. I am the basis of mathematical reasoning.
or queen 2. I am involved with statements, truth tables and
4. I am the first and largest rank among the seven rules of syntax.
ranks into which living organisms are 3. I am concerned with validity of mathematical
classified. arguments.
WHO AM I? Kingdom Who am I?
Riddle 438 ANSWER: Logic
1. I am a property of matter. RIDDLE 444
2. My value is large when a large mass occupies a 1. I am a molecular unit
small volume. 2. I am used extensively by the scientific community
3. I tell the mass of a unit volume of substance. as a name given to some stretches of
4. I am the ratio of mass to volume. deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA’s) and Ribonucleic
Who am I? acid (RNA)
Answer: Density 3. My existence was first suggested by Gregor
Mendel (1822-1884)
4. The total complement of me in an organism or cell
Riddle 439 is known as genome.
1. I was first prepared in the laboratory as far 5. I am the molecular unit of heredity of a living
back as 1818 organism
2. I am a colourless ,viscous liquid with a WHO AM I? Answer: Gene
freezing point of 4◦C
3. I am easily decomposed by heat or light to RIDDLE 445
produce an explosive mixture. 6. If I were time, I would be instantaneous.
4. My component atoms are derived from 7. I am a measure of the turning effect of a force.
hydrogen and oxygen in equal proportions. 8. The larger the perpendicular distance of a force
Who am I? from a point, the larger I am.
ANSWER: H2O2 or hydrogen peroxide. 9. I am called moment.
RIDDLE 440 Who am I? Answer: Moment of a force
1. I am a branch of biology
2. The first three letters of my name refer to a
financial charge or other levy imposed upon an Riddle 446
individual or legal entity by a state 1. I am a particle emitted by radioactive
3. The Greek philosopher and biologist Aristotle substances.
was one of the pioneers of my study 2. I am charged.
4. My study concerns the principle of 3. My range is small compared to other
classification emissions.
WHO AM I? Answer: Taxonomy 4. I contain two protons and two neutrons.
RIDDLE 441
1. I am an algebraic expression. Who am I? Answer: Alpha particle
2. I am a quotient of two polynomials.
3. I may be broken up into partial fractions. RIDDLE 447
4. My denominator is never zero. 1. So far as diagrams are concerned, I am quite
Who am I? ANSWER: Rational Expression famous.
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 2. I am used to solve problems. 3. The arms of my carbon-oxygen unit consist of a 2
3. I am used to represent sets, elements and carbon unit and a three carbon unit.
subsets. 4. I have no other functional group
Who am I? ANSWER: Venn Diagram Who am I? ANSWER: 3-Hexanone
RIDDLE 452
RIDDLE 448 6. I am a law of nature.
1. I am sometimes described as a rare element
but I am more abundant in the earth’s crust 7. I am named after a physicist.
than sulphur and lead
2. I am a soft transition metal and named after 8. I describe the interaction between a magnetic
the first mythical sons of the earth. field and a circuit.
3. I have a high strength/weight ratio and so I am
useful in the aircraft industry 9. I tell the direction of induced electromotive
4. I am the second element of the first d- forces.
transition series.
Who am I? ANSWER: Titanium. Who am I? ANSWER: Lenz’s law
RIDDLE 449
RIDDLE 453
1. I am a fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of
1. My type may be added, subtracted, multiplied but
an organism
never divided.
2. My name consists of eight letters
3. The first four letters of my name refer to a
2. I am a rectangular array of numbers.
thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled
in water or milk 3. In my square form I may have an inverse.
4. And the last four letters of name refer to any
distinguishable space within a structure that 4. I am characterized by the number of rows and the
has its own door. number of columns.
5. I am a member of the eukaryotic organisms
commonly referred to as fungi
WHO AM I? Mushroom Who am I? ANSWER: Matrix
Riddle 450
1. I am a metabolic pathway

2. My wide occurrence indicates that I am one of the

most ancient known metabolic pathways
RIDDLE 454
3. I am the first stage of the process of respiration 1. I am a solid solution and known for my
resilience
4. I occur in the cytosol or cytoplasm of the cell 2. Without carbon I would succumb to
any minute stress and weather
5. I am the metabolic pathway that converts glucose condition.
into pyruvate 3. I am malleable when I am red hot.
4. My strength and beauty are increased
6. My name literally means degradation of glucose when small amounts of other transition
elements are added to me.
Who am I?
Who am I? ANSWER: Glycolysis ANSWER: Steel.
RIDDLE 451 RIDDLE 455
1. I am a laboratory instrument.
1. I possess a carbon-oxygen double bond 2. I have arms, one of which is called the
2. I am not an acid or a derivative of an acid. ratio arm.

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 3. You might think of using me to cross a
river.
4. By me you can determine electrical
resistances.
Who am I? Answer: Wheatstone bridge
RIDDLE 456
1. You can say I am a function of a function.
2. I am a way of combining two functions to
create another function.
3. I am definitely associative but not generally
commutative.
4. When a function is combined with its inverse
under me, one obtains the identity function.
Who am I? ANSWER: Composition of functions
RIDDLE 457
1. I am a type of insect
2. I possess broad, flattened body and relatively
small head
3. Some my members are in close association
with human dwellings and widely found
around garbage or in the kitchen
4. The first four letters of my name refers to the
male fowl
WHO AM I? Cockroach
RIDDLE 458
1. My name is a big contradiction.
2. I am supposed to be hard but I am not even
a solid.
3. I am told I am hard simply because I am
harsh on soaps but not on detergents.
4. I am usually an aqueous solution
containing small amounts of multivalent
cations.
Who am I? ANSWER: Hard water
RIDDLE 459
1. I belong to the kingdom Plantae
2. I exhibit a range of morphology from
unicellular to multicellular
3. My largest and most complex forms are
known as seaweeds
4. I form a symbiotic association with fungus
to form a lichen
5. A gelatinous substance derived from some
of my members serves as a good medium
on which to grow bacteria and fungi
WHO AM I? Answer : Alga/Algae
RIDDLE 460
1. I am a device for measuring temperature.
2. Unlike many temperature measuring
devices, I can measure temperatures
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without being in contact with the object
whose temperature I measure.
3. I operate by measuring thermal radiation.
4. My name begins with the Greek word for
fire
Who am I? ANSWER: Pyrometer
RIDDLE 461
1. I am a two digit number between 25 and
45.
2. The sum of my digits is 10 and the
difference of my digits is a square.
3. I am a prime.
4. The number formed by reversing my digits
is also a prime.
Who am I? ANSWER: 37
Riddle 462
1. My aqueous solution is very colourful
and characteristic of me.
2. I contain a metal cation which does not
contribute to that purple colour.
3. I am a solid and good oxidising agent
with gram formula mass of 158.
4. My purple colour is attributed to the
presence of a transition metal in my
complex anion.
Who am I? ANSWER: KMnO4
RIDDLE 463
1. I am a membrane-bound organelle found in most
eukaryotic cells
2. My name literally means "thread granule”
3. My number in a cell varies widely by organism and
tissue type.
4. Many cells have only a single of me, whereas
others can contain several thousands of me
5. I am sometimes described as "cellular power
plants" because i generate most of the cell's supply of
adenosine triphosphate (ATP),
Who am I? ANSWER: Mitochondrion
RIDDLE 464
1. I am the mathematics of an unfair world.
2. Less than, greater than feature prominently in my
activities.
3. I can have an infinite number of solutions.
4. My nearest cousin is an equation.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Inequality
RIDDLE 465
11. I am a property of a substance.
 12. If I were a vessel, I would be how much it can
hold.
13. I am high if a large amount of heat is required
to change the temperature of a substance.
14. I describe unit mass of substance.
Who am I? ANSWER: Specific heat capacity
RIDDLE 466
1. I am a transformation in the plane.
2. I map a point onto a point.
3. I map a straight line onto another straight line,
hence my name.
4. I preserve vector addition and scalar multiplication
of a vector.
Who am I? ANSWER: Linear Transformation
RIDDLE 467
1. I have as many as 24 atoms from three elements in
my molecule.
2. I represent one of the contradictions of chemistry
because although I have the alkanone structure I
respond favourably to Fehling’s and Tollens’
reagents.
3. I am the sweetest member of our family.
4. If you really know who I am, you will probably
call me sweetheart or honey.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Fructose
RIDDLE 468
1. I am a phylum of organisms under the kingdom
animalia
2. Some of my members live in the sea, some in
freshwater and others on land
3. My members have a dorsal body mass known as
visceral hump, with a mantle cover which
commonly secretes a shell
4. Gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods belong to
me
Who am I? ANSWER: Phylum Mollusca
RIDDLE 469
1. I am a property of a concave spherical mirror.
2. I am a point on the principal axis of the mirror.
3. Rays parallel to the axis come to a focus as far
from the pole as from me.
4. I am twice as far from the mirror as the focus.
Who am I? ANSWER: Centre of curvature
RIDDLE 470
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1. I am a topic in Mathematics associated with forces
in mechanics.
2. My name suggests that I have nothing to do with
motion.
3. I am involved with forces generally in
equilibrium.
4. I determine components of a force and the resultant
of a set of forces.
Who am I? ANSWER: Statics
RIDDLE 471
1. I am a saprophytic fungus
2. I reproduce asexually by budding and fission
3. I am found on the surfaces of sugary substances
like fruit sugar cane and nectar of flowers
4. People have used me for fermentation and baking
throughout history
WHO AM I? Answer: Yeast
RIDDLE 472
1. I am a type of motion.
2. I can occur when objects move on a straight line
or when they move on a curve.
3. With me, acceleration is always proportional but
opposite to displacement.
4. I am simple.
Who am I? Answer: Simple harmonic motion
RIDDLE 473
1. I am an inorganic substance made up of three
different elements in the ratio 1 : 1 : 3
2. I am highly temperamental and I produce
brown fumes when I am agitated.
3. Though I am a member of the Brönsted –
Lowry family, in most of my reactions I am
acting as an oxidizing agent.
4. Nitrogen is one my elements in addition to
oxygen and hydrogen
Who am I?
Answer: HNO3 or trioxonitrate (V)
acid.
RIDDLE 474
7. Out of the many, a few.
8. That is who I am—a condenser you may say.
9. I combine particles to form particles with
larger mass than the starting ones.
10. I can be accompanied by generation or
absorption of energy, depending on starting
conditions.
 11. If you knew my secrets, you could reconstruct 8. I am in the opposition so far as logarithms are
the entire periodic table: concerned.
12. Hydrogen into deuterium into helium and on 9. For 1, I am 10 so far as common logarithms are
and on and on. concerned.
10. For 2, I am 9 in base 3.
Who am I?
11. I am the reverse process so far as logarithms are
ANSWER: Nuclear fusion concerned.
12. For a given logarithm, I determine the
RIDDLE 475 corresponding number.
6. I am a point of concurrency associated with a Who am I?
triangle. ANSWER: Antilogarithm
7. I am a meeting point of three lines associated
with a triangle. RIDDLE 479
8. I am in a way a center of some sort. 6. I am a viscous, non-Newtonian fluid.
9. I am not the in-center and neither am I the 7. Normally, I am clear, pale yellow, sticky, and do
circum-center. not clot.
10. I am the point at which the three altitudes of a 8. I am an ultrafiltrate from blood plasma,
triangle meet. 9. I contain proteins derived from the blood plasma
and proteins that are produced by cells within the
Who am I?
joint tissues.
ANSWER: Ortho-Center 10. My principal role is to reduce friction between the
RIDDLE 476 articular cartilages of synovial joints during
7. I am always a ratio, constant at constant movement.
temperatures. Who am I?
8. If you guessed that I was a kind of equilibrium ANSWER: Synovial fluid
constant, you were not wrong.
9. My numerator is always made up of two RIDDLE 480
terms. 6. I am a gas giant.
10. One of the terms in the numerator is the 7. I am quite massive,
hydroxide ion concentration. 8. Though not as massive as my neighbor
11. The second term in the numerator and the only 9. Who was the site of the spectacular encounter with
Shoemaker-Levy in 1994.
denominator are directly related
10. I am home to Janus, Titan, and Phoebe.
12. I am better known to be a measure of the Who am I?
strength of weak bases. ANSWER: Saturn
Who am I?
ANSWER: Base Dissociation Constant, Kb
RIDDLE 477
6. I am a process that usually occurs as part of a RIDDLE 481
larger cell cycle. 7. The mystery about me is whether I am a gas or a
7. For simple unicellular organisms, such as the liquid.
amoeba, one of me is equivalent to 8. Ideally I should be part of every home but in
reproduction. Ghana I am not.
8. Regardless of the organism in which I occur, I 9. While you have your freedom of movement, I do
am preceded by a single round of DNA not have that luxury.
10. I am stored in a limited space under extreme
replication.
pressure all the time.
9. My primary concern is the maintenance of the 11. I am originally part of a liquid solution, dark
original cell's genome. brown in colour.
10. I am the process by which a parent cell divides 12. I am the first to be collected during fractional
into two or more daughter cells distillation of the liquid solution.
Who am I? Who am I?
ANSWER: Cell division ANSWER: Liquified Petroleum Gas or LPG
RIDDLE 478 RIDDLE 482
7. You can say I am against logarithms. 6. I am a disturbance that transports energy.
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 8. I am characterized by oscillations perpendicular
to the direction of propagation.
9. I propagate through vacuum.
10. I am characterized by oscillating electric and
magnetic fields.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Electromagnetic wave

RIDDLE 483
6. I am an emission process.
7. I occur in the presence of photons,
8. But I also occur when no photons are present.
9. I generate photons whose properties are not
correlated with those of photons already
present.
10. So my product is distinguishable from that of a
stimulated process.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Spontaneous emission

RIDDLE 484
6. I am a complex structure.
7. I am initially made up of many separate bony
elements.
8. During development, many of these bony
elements gradually fuse together into solid
bone.
9. I support the structures of the face and form a
cavity for the brain.
10. I am the bony structure that forms the head in
the human skeleton.
Who am I?
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 RIDDLE 485
7. I am a type of number.
8. People think there is something logical about
me because of my name.
9. I normally comprise of two integers with the
second not being zero.
10. I am just a ratio hence my name.
11. I am the quotient of two integers.
12. I am simply a fraction.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Rational Number
RIDDLE 486
7. I am a chemical with a rather long name.
8. Most chemistry students do not know that I
can be used as a laxative; to them I am a kind
of a dye.
9. Like a chameleon I change my colour
depending on my environment.
10. Indeed I change my colour as pH changes.
11. Obviously I am useful in Volumetric
Analyses.
12. I am pink in solutions of high pH and
colourless in solutions at pH 8 or lower.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Phenolphthalein
RIDDLE 487
6. I am a transparent object
7. Which can carry radiation over very long
distances?
8. I have a very small transverse dimension,
9. With optical properties that vary outward from the
centre.
10. In one embodiment, I am called step index
because refractive index in the central portion is
slightly larger than refractive index in the
surrounding cladding.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Optical fiber
RIDDLE 488
6. I am the point of intersection of the medians to
a triangle.
7. I am a useful point of concurrency, especially
in Physics.
8. For a thin uniform triangular plate, I am the
center of mass of the triangle.
9. Such a triangular plate can be balanced at me.
10. I am often referred to as a center of gravity.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Centroid
RIDDLE 489
7. I am a sub–class of a broad class of reactions
in chemistry
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8. I am quite often cited in connection with
organic reactions
9. I usually proceed through polar intermediates
10. At the end of the reaction, careful inspection
will reveal a new comer in the reactant
molecule with concurrent departure of some
unit of the reactant.
11. In my sub–class of the reaction type, each
reaction is initiated by a species with an
electron pair
12. The reaction of a primary-alkylhalide with the
hydroxide ion is a typical example of me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Nucleophilic Substitution
Reaction
RIDDLE 490
7. I am a porous tissue consisting of cells with
large intercellular spaces
8. I am found as raised circular, oval, or
elongated areas on stems and roots
9. My shape is one of the characteristics used for
tree identification.
10. My formation usually begins beneath stomatal
complexes during primary growth preceding
the development of the first periderm
11. I am also present on many fruits, quite
noticeably on many apples and pears.
12. I function as a pore, providing a pathway for
the direct exchange of gases between the
internal tissues and atmosphere through the
bark
Who am I?
ANSWER: Lenticel(s)
RIDDLE 491
7. I am an inorganic substance, sparingly soluble
in water.
8. I have a cation derived from a very important
metal, which is present in a lot of substances,
animate and inanimate.
9. I belong to the Lowry–Bronsted kingdom
10. My production from an oxide of my metal is
usually accompanied by evolution of large
amounts of heat.
11. In my raw form I am used in neutralizing
acidic soils
12. My nick–name suggests I am a modified citrus
fruit but I am not.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Slaked lime or calcium
hydroxide or Ca(OH)2
RIDDLE 492
 6. In nutrition I am a breakfast cereal
manufactured by Kellogg's Canada.
7. In computer science I am a one-dimensional
array.
8. In molecular biology I am a vehicle used to
transfer genetic material to a target cell.
9. I am also used to refer to any agent that carries
and transmits an infectious pathogen into
another living organism.
10. In Physics I am used to represent physical
quantities that have both magnitude and
direction
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vector
RIDDLE 493
7. I am a point in space.
8. I am not fixed in space as a casual observation
would suggest,
9. Because orbital precession causes long-period
periodic changes in my location.
10. My name reminds one of a fermented
beverage made from pears.
11. But I am always the closest to the Sun;
12. Earth only passes through me once a year.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Perihelion
RIDDLE 494
7. I am a number.
8. I am a natural number.
9. I and my siblings are the building blocks for
factorization of integers.
10. I have only two divisors, myself and the
multiplicative identity.
11. Numbers of my type are normally odd with
one notable exception.
12. You can say I am in the prime of my life.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Prime Number
RIDDLE 495
6. Scientifically, I am divided into lentic systems
and lotic systems.
7. I am a renewable and variable, but finite
natural resource.
8. I am an important natural resource necessary
for the survival of all ecosystems.
9. I create a hypotonic environment for aquatic
organisms.
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10. I can be defined as water with less than 500
parts per million (ppm) of dissolved salts.
Who am I? ANSWER: Freshwater
RIDDLE 496
6. I am a two digit number.
7. I am an odd number.
8. The sum of my digits is a cube of an even
prime.
9. My last digit is an identity for an arithmetical
operation.
10. I am just short of 6 dozens.
Who am I? ANSWER: 71
RIDDLE 497
7. I am a salt, comprising a simple cation and
a simple anion.
8. I am soluble in cold water but insoluble in
petroleum ether.
9. If a drop of my aqueous solution is
dropped into a colourless flame, the flame
will become intense golden yellow.
10. My anion is derived from an element in
Group 7 or 17.
11. The alcoholic aqueous solution of that
element can be used as an antiseptic.
12. That same element forms a blue complex
with starch.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Sodium iodide or
NaI
RIDDLE 498
7. I am one of the particles that make up matter.
8. I have mass so I can interact with other
particles via the gravitational force.
9. However, my principal interaction is
electromagnetic.
10. I have been described as the real object that
comes closest to a mathematical point.
11. But I am no mere point: a mass of order
1
10−30 kg , spin- , charge of order −10−19 C , and
2
extra nuclear in atoms;
12. I give electricity both its name and character.
Who am I? ANSWER: Electron
RIDDLE 499
6. I am an equation.
7. To be precise I am a quadratic equation.
8. I need not have real roots.
9. The sum of my roots is -5/3.
 10. The product of my roots is 1/3. 5. If you find me in my open chain form
Who am I? ANSWER: 3x2 + 5x + 1 = 0 you can easily trap my alkanal functional
RIDDLE 500 group
6. In modern-day human culture, I have often 6. Breakdown starch or cellulose by
come to be viewed quite negatively. hydrolysis and you would find me
7. But I am a vital process in nature, Who am I? ANSWER: Glucose
8. Without decay, and I, the world would RIDDLE 504
experience a decline in new growth, due to a 1. I am an empirical property
shortage of nutrients, 2. Used to characterize two surfaces in
9. I owe my existence to organisms that are contact.
commonly referred to as detritivores. 3. I am used to quantify the dissipative
10. I am the first stage in the recycling of nutrients force
that have been used by an organism to build its 4. That acts when two surfaces are in
body relative motion.
Who am I? ANSWER: Decomposition 5. I am dimensionless.
RIDDLE 501 Who am I?
7. I am a radioactive metal. ANSWER: Coefficient of kinetic friction
8. With a half-life greater than 700 million years. Riddle 505
9. I fission on neutron capture. 1. My name comes from Classical Latin
10. Into isotopes of barium and krypton. which literally means "obtained by digging"
11. Thereby producing three neutrons from one. 2. I vary in size from microscopic to very
12. I am the target isotope in enrichment plants. large forms
Who am I? ANSWER: Uranium-235 3. I range in age from the youngest to the
oldest
4. I may also consist of the marks left
RIDDLE 502 behind by the organism while it was alive
7. In my normal state, I am a gaseous organic 5. Precicely, I am the preserved remains
compound or traces of animals, plants, and other
8. I have six atoms, from two elements, in my organisms from the remote past.
molecules Who am I? ANSWER: Fossil
9. I have both sigma and pi – bonds in my RIDDLE 506
molecules 1. I am a quadrilateral
10. I can react with reagents such as HBr gas, 2. My diagonals are perpendicular
Bromine gas and water in the presence of 3. I fit my outline in two positions
concentrated H2SO4. 4. I have two pairs of congruent sides
11. My molecules and those of my cousins are 5. I have one axis of symmetry which is a
very sociable diagonal
12. With very little effort, thousands if not Who am I? ANSWER: KITE
millions of my molecules can join hands to RIDDLE 507
form giant molecules 6. I am a device for generating high potential
Who am I? differences.
ANSWER: Ethene 7. I produce such high potential differences I have
RIDDLE 503 been used in particle accelerators.
1. I am virtually everywhere on this 8. I only produce modest current levels.
planet 9. So you are not likely to be harmed if you were to
2. Though I am a stable compound it is touch the dome of the version of me you find in a
my polymeric form that you are most familiar student laboratory;
with 10. However, your hair may stand on end.
3. My polymers may or may not be edible Who am I? ANSWER : Van de Graaf
4. My molecules can exist in the open generator
straight chain form or in a heterocyclic form RIDDLE 508
6. I am a solid solution.
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 7. My solvent is a liquid of a kind, and my solute
is a solid.
8. My solvent bears the name of the planet in the
solar system nearest to the sun.
9. My solute belongs to Group 1.
10. My solute is the first metal of Group 1.
Who am 1? ANSWER: Lithium
amalgam
RIDDLE 509
6. I am a two-digit number.
7. I am a square.
8. I am also a square of a square.
9. I am an odd number.
10. The sum of my digits is an odd square.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 81
RIDDLE 510
6. I was first examined microscopically by
Robert Hooke.
7. I am an impermeable, buoyant material of
plant origin.
8. I am harvested for commercial use.
9. A tree continues to live and grow even when I
am removed.
10. I am used in a variety of products, the most
common of which is wine stoppers.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cork
RIDDLE 511
7. I am a three digit odd number between 700
and 800.
8. I am a square as well as a cube.
9. I am an odd number.
10. As a power, three plays a prominent role in my
base.
11. The number formed by my first two digits is
six dozens.
12. My last digit is an exact square.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 729
RIDDLE 512
6. I may be the disposition of an individual to
assert control in dealing with others.
7. In neurology i am the normal tendency for
one side of the brain to be more important
than the other in controlling certain functions
8. In ecology I am the degree of predominance
of one or a few species in an ecological
community
9. In genetics I am a relationship between
alleles of one gene,
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10. In the relationship the effect on phenotype of
one allele masks the contribution of a second
allele at the same locus
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Dominance
RIDDLE 513
6. I am a metal, and my origin is rather obscure
hence my name.
7. When I am pure I am shiny and bluish–white
in colour.
8. I am a confused citizen of the Periodic Table,
because though I live among the transition
metals. my chemistry mostly belongs to that of
the Main Group Elements.
9. I am a constituent member of an alloy, that has
served mankind since ancient times.
10. If all elements are arranged in alphabetical
order, I am surely among the last two.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Zinc
RIDDLE 514
7. I am the simplest in my family.
8. But I am not that simple to describe accurately,
9. Even though I am made up of only two particles,
10. One of which is fundamental.
11. The first somewhat successful model of me was
constructed by Niels Bohr
12. Who calculated my energy spectrum?
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hydrogen atom
RIDDLE 515
6. I am a dynamical property of a moving object.
7. I am associated with rotational motion.
8. I may be varying even when the net force on
an object is zero.
9. I am to rotational motion what linear
momentum is to rectilinear motion.
10. I am constant when net torque is zero.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Angular momentum
RIDDLE 516
6. I am the action or fact of carefully choosing
someone or something as being the best or most
suitable
7. In computing, I am a list of items on which user
operations will take place
8. I am also used to refer to the pressures on cells
and organisms to evolve
9. I do not guarantee that advantageous traits or
alleles become prevalent within a population
10. I only occur when the individuals of a population
are diverse in their characteristics
Who am I?
ANSWER: Selection
 13. I am useful in x-ray generators,
RIDDLE 517 14. Where I occur in the hot cathode.
6. I am a two-digit number. Who am I? ANSWER: Thermionic emission
7. I am a prime.
8. I am 3 short of a score.
9. The sum of my digits is a cube of an even prime.
10. I am five more than a dozen. RIDDLE 523
Who am I? 5. If I were a Minister of Finance, I would be
ANSWER: 17 commended for lowering taxes all the time
RIDDLE 518 6. But I am not a Minister, I am only a chemical
6.I am a type of motion 7. When I am in active service, no matter the
7.That can occur on a straight line duration, my character or integrity does not
8.As well as on a curve. change although my outward appearance may
9.My distinguishing feature is a linear relation change
between acceleration and displacement. I have no effects on heats of reaction
10. I am periodic. 8. My special gift is to lower the activation energy of
Who am I? ANSWER: Simple harmonic a system with which I am working
motion Who am I? ANSWER: Catalyst
RIDDLE 519 RIDDLE 524
6. I belong to a class of organic compounds 6. I am an array of numbers but I am not a sequence.
7. Despite the fact that I belong to a class of organic 7. To be precise, I am a rectangular array of numbers.
compounds, I am sometimes referred to as a 8. I am closely associated with linear simultaneous
derivative of another class of compounds equations.
8. I am sensitive to both mineral acids and alkali 9. I am made up of rows and columns.
9. I am hydrolyzed by mineral acids to give two 10. In my square form, I produce the determinant.
neutral molecules A and B; A gives effervescence Who am I?
with NaHCO3 and B evolves hydrogen with ANSWER: Matrix
sodium metal RIDDLE 525
10. While A has 4 carbons in a straight chain B has 6. I was an eminent Scottish botanist
only one carbon 7. I lived during the eighteenth and nineteenth
Who am I? ANSWER: Methyl butanoate centuries.
RIDDLE 520 8. After completing my studies in medicine at the
6. I have long played an important role in human University of Edinburgh in Scotland I joined the
societies. army as a surgeon at the young age of 22 years.
7. In object-oriented programming, I am the ability 9. I was the first person to use the term cell nucleus in
to derive new classes, from existing classes 1831
8. Mind you, I should not be confused with subtyping 10. I did not realize that the cell nucleus was present in
9. In law I am the hereditary succession to an estate, cells other than those belonging to plants.
title, etc.4 WHO AM I?
10. I am the process of genetic transmission of traits ANSWER: Robert Brown
from parents to offspring. RIDDLE 526
Who am I? ANSWER: Inheritance 15. I am a phenomenon associated with waves.
RIDDLE 521 16. I occur at the boundary between two material
6. I am a three digit number. media.
7. I lie between 100 and 200. 17. I only occur when the wave velocities in the
8. I am an exact square. media on each side of the boundary are
9. I am an even number. different.
10. The sum of my digits is 16. 18. When I occur, the direction of propagation of a
Who am I? wave changes
ANSWER: 196 19. In such a manner that the angle of incidence is
RIDDLE 522 different from the angle the outgoing wave
10. I am a phenomenon in which fundamental makes with the normal.
particles are emitted. Who am I?
11. I often occur with refractory metals, ANSWER: Refraction
12. But I am also known to occur with certain RIDDLE 527
compounds.

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 6. I am an elemental metal known to the ancient man
and woman
7. My scientific name from which my symbol is
obtained is in Latin
8. I do not occur in nature in the free state but as a
component of an ore known as CASSITERITE
9. Nigeria is one of the nations endowed with my ore
10. I am a constituent of the metal sheets used in
preparing the containers for canned food
Who am I? ANSWER: Tin
RIDDLE 528
11. I am as constant as the Northern star.
12. I am a function.
13. I am a one note Samba as my range has only one
element.
14. My graph is always parallel to the x-axis.
15. I have no x-intercept.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Constant Function
RIDDLE 529
6. I am an extremely important molecule
7. I was first isolated and named by two French
scientists, a pharmacist and a chemist
8. I am a term used for several closely related green
pigments
9. My molecules are specifically arranged in and
around photosystems that are embedded in the
thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts
10. I am vital for photosynthesis, since I allow plants
to absorb energy from light
Who am I? ANSWER: Chlorophyll
Riddle 530
6. If I were a nation, my currency would definitely be
electrons, nothing else.
7. But I am not a nation but only a kind of a chemical
process.
8. I hate electrons which move forward and
backward.
9. Physically I do operate in a single room most of
the time.
10. I need an external source of electrons, produced by
a device with two poles with a potential difference.
Who am I? ANSWER: Electrolysis
RIDDLE 531
6. In logic I am a class of objects or individuals that
can be divided into two or more groups.
7. In mathematics I am a number characterizing a
closed surface in topology.
8. In biology I am any of the taxonomic groups into
which a family is divided.
9. Specifically, I am a group of organisms ranking
above a species and below a family
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10. Generally, I consist of a group of species
exhibiting similar characteristics.
Who am I? ANSWER: Genus
RIDDLE 532
6. In my shortened form, I am a kind of hairstyle.
7. I am a one to one mapping of a set onto itself.
8. In music, I am an arrangement.
9. Normally I am an arrangement of objects in a set.
10. nPr is a common expression with me.
Who am I? ANSWER: Permutation
RIDDLE 533
6. I am a model of the atom.
7. Although I successfully describe atomic
energy levels,
8. This success is confined to one-electron atoms.
9. I fail to give an accurate account of atomic
angular momentum.
10. And my postulate of circular electron orbits of
definite radius is at odds with reality.
Who am I? ANSWER: Bohr model
RIDDLE 534
6. If I were of a biological disposition, I could be
a pathological swelling or enlargement;
7. Or a mass of one kind of tissue enclosed in a
different kind of tissue.
8. But I am only a zero.
9. A standing wave on a string fixed at both ends
has one of me in the first overtone;
10. And two of me in the second overtone.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Node
RIDDLE 535
6. I am a function.
7. Really as a function, there is nothing odd about
me.
8. Examples of me are y = x2 and y = cosx.
9. My graph is symmetric about the y-axis.
10. If my equation is of the form y = f(x), then f(-
x) = f(x).
Who am I? ANSWER: Even Function
RIDDLE 536
6. I am an organic compound with molecules
containing a line or plane of symmetry
7. I have no rings
8. My molecular structure can be likened to that of a
bird, a central body with two wings of equal length
on the sides
9. The carbonyl group constitutes the body of the bird
10. The wings are three sp3 carbons each on both sides
of the carbonyl
Who am I?
 ANSWER: 4–Heptanone
RIDDLE 537
7. I may be a unit of volume or capacity
8. I am used in dry and liquid measure, which is
equal to 1/4 of a British Imperial pint (142
millilitres).
9. I am also a respiratory organ found in many
aquatic organisms
10. I usually consist of thin filaments of tissue
11. In bony fishes, I lie in a branchial chamber covered
by a bony operculum.
12. Sharks and rays typically have five pairs of me in
the form of slits.
Who am I? ANSWER: (A) Gill
RIDDLE 538
10. I am a type of interaction.
11. Because I am an inverse square law force,
12. I am said to be long range.
13. If I had charges as does that other long range
force, they would all have only one sign.
14. I am always attractive.
Who am I? ANSWER: Gravitational
interaction
RIDDLE 539
6. We are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates
7. We inhabit a wide variety of habitats
8. We use our skin as a secondary respiratory surface
9. Our young ones generally undergo metamorphosis
from larva with gills to an adult air-breathing form
with lungs
10. Our name is derived from an Ancient Greek term,
which means "both kinds of life”.
Who are we? ANSWER: Amphibians
RIDDLE 540
6. I am a two-digit number.
7. My digits are identical.
8. The sum of my digits is 18.
9. I am the largest of my kind.
10. Each digit is the square of a prime digit.
Who am I?
ANSWER: 99
RIDDLE 541
6. You cannot touch me with your bare fingers
whether I am in my natural state or in an aqueous
solution
7. As a solid I am highly hygroscopic
8. I am usually prepared in Ghana and elsewhere in
West Africa in semi – large quantities using not so
sophisticated set – ups
9. In other parts of the world I am produced by
electrolysis
10. I am supposed to be caustic, though needed for
making soft soap
Who am I?
ANSWER: KOH or Caustic Potash
RIDDLE 542
5. I am a heavenly body.
6. I am visible in the night sky.
7. I am a solitary satellite.
8. I orbit the only presently known habitable
planet in the solar system.
Who am I? ANSWER: Moon
RIDDLE 543
6. I am a term of common parlance, but I have no
universally recognised precise definition.
7. I provide ecosystem services to humans and serve
as tourist attractions.
8. I account for 75% of the gross primary
productivity of the Earth's biosphere.
9. I am the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth.
10. I am a large area of land covered with trees or
other woody vegetation.
Who am I? ANSWER: Forest
RIDDLE 544
6. I am a process in chemistry and other related
fields.
7. I am usually very destructive but if properly
controlled can provide lots of benefits.
8. While my reactants are usually organic matter,
water vapour is formed as a product.
9. A poisonous gas or a greenhouse gas or both may
be formed in addition to the water vapour
depending on the circumstances.
10. I usually provide heat and sometimes light but it is
the former which is most useful to Ghanaians
especially the Ministry of energy.
Who am I? ANSWER: Combustion
RIDDLE 545
6. I am an element discovered in 1826
7. I am one of those elements whose smallest units
are not atoms but molecules
8. I have a boiling point of about 59oC
9. I am used in making fumigants, flame proofing
agents, water purification compounds, sanitizers
and many more useful products
10. I am the only liquid non–metallic element and my
colour is reddish–brown
Who am I? ANSWER: Bromine
RIDDLE 546
6. I am a composite organism
7. My properties are very different from the
properties of my component organisms
8. I come in many colours, sizes, and forms
9. I normally grow on the bark of trees, leaves,
mosses, bare rock, walls, gravestones, roofs and
exposed soil surfaces
10. I arise from algae or cyanobacteria living among
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 Who am I? ANSWER: Lichen
RIDDLE 551
7. I am a type of material frequently used in
RIDDLE 547 electronic devices.
6. I am a type of gas. 8. I am semiconducting.
7. I exhibit a tendency to condense. 9. I may contain two types of charge carriers—
8. So I am not an ideal gas. electrons and holes;
9. My equation of state is similar to that of an ideal 10. But I have a larger concentration of electrons than
gas; of holes.
10. But the volume term is smaller by a quantity that 11. Who am I? ANSWER: N type semiconductor
takes the actual volume of my molecules into RIDDLE 552
account. 6. My name suggests I sort out things.
Who am I? 7. At stationary points I yield zero.
ANSWER: van der Waals gas 8. I am used to derive.
9. I yield the gradient function.
10. I am the process for determining the gradient of the
tangent to a curve.
Who am I? ANSWER: Differentiation
RIDDLE 548 RIDDLE 553
6. I am a 2-digit number. 7. We live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water,
7. Both digits are prime. and on land,
8. I am an even number. 8. We are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton
9. My first digit exceeds the second digit by 5. and have a single pair of claws.
10. I am six dozens. 9. We are decapod crustaceans
Who am I? 10. We make up about 20% of all marine crustaceans
ANSWER: 72 caught, farmed, and consumed worldwide
RIDDLE 549 11. The mode of articulation of our legs makes a
6. In the scientific method, I am an empirical procedure. sidelong gait more efficient than forward
7. I am used to verify, refute, or validate a hypothesis. movement
8. I provide insight into cause-and-effect by 12. We typically walk sideways, a behaviour which
demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular gives us the word crabwise
factor is manipulated. Who are we?
9. I vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on ANSWER: Crabs
repeatable procedures and logical analysis of the RIDDLE 554
results. 6. Part of me can be found in a chemistry lab by
10. Researchers also use me to test existing theories or new combining different elements
hypotheses to support or disprove them. 7. I am a combination of two inequalities.
Who am i? ANSWER: Experiment 8. My solution set is the intersection or union of two
sets.
9. An example of me is ‘2x + 1 > 5 and 3x - 5 <
25’.
10. To solve me, solve the component inequalities and
find their intersection or union as appropriate.
RIDDLE 550 Who am I? ANSWER: Compound Inequality
6. I am a collection of some basic statements. RIDDLE 555
7. These are described as postulates by scientists. 6. I am a hydrocarbon
8. For gases at ordinary temperatures and pressure, I do 7. My carbons are in a ring
not acknowledge the presence of their units, molecules 8. My molecular formula would also suggest a
or atoms. straight chain hydrocarbon with one triple bond
9. I am able to explain why gases exert pressure. 9. My number of carbons is a product of two prime
10. If I only begin to see the sizes of the molecules or numbers
atoms of gases when the gases are under very high 10. I have something in common with benzene
pressures or at very low temperatures, then Who am I? ANSWER: Cyclohexene
Who am I? RIDDLE 556
ANSWER: Kinetic Theory of Matter/Gases or 10. I am a field.
Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter/Gases. 11. I am described by field lines.

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 12. My field lines are closest together where my 10. My middle digit is the average of my first and last
field strength is greatest. digits.
13. My field lines originate and terminate on point Who am I? ANSWER: 357
sources and point sinks. RIDDLE 562
14. My point sources are positive and my point 6. I am an organic compound
sinks are negative electric charges. 7. My molecules have only carbon and hydrogen
Who am I? ANSWER: Electric field atoms
RIDDLE 557 8. My shape can be used to illustrate the perfect
6. If I and my friends were boxers, we would belong tetrahedral shape
to the heavy weight division. 9. I am a hydrocarbon with only one carbon in my
7. We are mainly organic substances with big molecule
molecules. 10. I am a gas obtained from natural sources and
8. Our bodies do not hate repeated units, in fact we therefore called Natural Gas
love them. Who am I? ANSWER: Methane
9. We are formed from the combination of many (CH4)
small units.
10. We may be classified as Addition or Condensation RIDDLE 563
depending on the chemistry of the combination of 6. I am a type of magnetic material.
the units. 7. I am a linear material;
Who are we? ANSWER: Polymers 8. That is, my magnetization varies linearly with
RIDDLE 558 magnetic field.
7. I am a trigonometric ratio. 9. I have negative susceptibility.
8. To be precise I am the reciprocal of a trigonometric 10. I am repelled by the poles of a strong magnet.
ratio. Who am I? ANSWER: Diamagnetic material
9. I am the co- of a trigonometric ratio.
10. For 45°, I am 1. RIDDLE 564
11. For 0°, I am undefined. 7. I am a material of natural or synthetic origin.
12. For 90°, I am nothing. 8. I may be applied as a solid or liquid.
Who am I? ANSWER: Cotangent 9. I am applied to soils or to plant tissues (usually
RIDDLE 559 leaves) to supply one or more plant nutrients
7. I am a sub-cellular structure. essential to the growth of plants.
8. I am found predominantly in protists and in 10. I am classified according to whether I provide a
unicellular algae. single nutrient or provide two or more nutrients.
9. My number per cell varies, depending on the 11. I am commonly used for growing all crops, with
species. application rates depending on the soil fertility.
10. I was previously known as pulsatile. 12. I am known to be the main contributor to the
11. I act as part of a protective mechanism that eutrophication of fresh water bodies.
prevents the cell from absorbing too much water WHO AM I? ANSWER: Fertilizer
and possibly lysing through excessive internal RIDDLE 565
pressure. 7. My name is in two parts.
12. As my name suggests, I expel water out of the 8. The first part represents a tall punctuation mark
cell by contracting. typically used in matched pairs within text, to set
Who am I? apart or interject other text.
ANSWER: Contractile vacuole 9. The second part refers to a type of decomposer.
RIDDLE 560 10. I am mainly found on trees (living and dead) and
5. I am a property of a solid material. coarse woody debris.
6. I operate by Hooke, never by crook. 11. Characteristically, I produce bracket-shaped or
7. I characterize elastic deformations. occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks.
8. I am quite Young. 12. I often grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like
Who am I? ANSWER: Young’s modulus trees or wood.
RIDDLE 561 Who am I? ANSWER: Bracket Fungi
6. I am a three digit number between 300 and 400.
7. The sum of my digits is 15. RIDDLE 566
8. All my digits are prime numbers. 7. Perpendiculars are my dwelling place.
9. My digits are consecutive odd numbers. 8. It seems there is something right about me.

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9. I am formed from two perpendicular line segments or
rays with a common vertex.
10.When a straight angle is bisected there are two of me.
11.Of course I am an angle.
12.My radian measure is half of a pie. Who am I?
ANSWER: Right Angle
13. RIDDLE 567
9. I am a property of a substance.
10. I characterize phase changes.
11. My SI unit is joule per kilogram.
12. I am the thermal energy required for the
isothermal phase change of unit mass of
substance.
Who am I? ANSWER: Specific latent
heat
RIDDLE 568
6. While my father’s ancestors were all farmers, I
decided to stay in the classroom and lecture
rooms.
7. I was born in Sweden.
8. My love for mathematics ended me in
University of Uppsala to study physical
sciences.
9. I worked under a Professor in the Swedish
Academy of Sciences.
10. Though I wrote a thesis on electrolytes I am
better known for a Theory of acids and bases.
Who am I? ANSWER: (Svante)
Arrhenius
RIDDLE 567
7. I am found in warm habitats that range from rain
forest to desert conditions
8. I belong to a family that was divided into two
subfamilies, by Klaver and Böhme in 1986.
9. My skin has a superficial layer which contains
pigments,
10. I have two superimposed layers within my skin
that control my colour and thermoregulation.
11. If my tongue was a car, it could accelerate from 0
to 60 mph in 1/100th of a second
12. My species come in a range of colours, and many
of my species have the ability to change colours.
Who am I? ANSWER: Chameleon
RIDDLE 568
6. I am a property of a substance that is known to
and used by all
7. I hate temperatures higher than ambient
temperatures
8. I am attributed to certain non–organic ions present
9. My name suggests I can hardly be persistent
10. I can cause you to spend on soaps for your laundry
and other related activities.
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Who am I? ANSWER: Temporary
Hardness of water
RIDDLE 569
6. I am a line segment.
7. I connect two points on a curve.
8. I am more popularly associated with a circle.
9. You can strike me.
10. I am also a harmonious combination of musical
notes.
Who am I? ANSWER: A Chord
RIDDLE 570
13. I am an element.
14. I exist as molecules.
15. In the earth’s atmosphere or crust you would
hardly find me in the free state.
16. The irony is that I am the most abundant element
in the entire universe.
17. I form an explosive mixture with the second most
abundant gas in the earth’s atmosphere.
18. My atomic number is 1 and it is believed most
elements are derived from me..
Who am I? ANSWER: Hydrogen (gas or
element)
RIDDLE 571
7. Owing to my size and distinctive structure, I was
one of the first organelles to be discovered and
observed in detail
8. I am found in most eukaryotic cells
9. I was discovered with the help of special staining
techniques.
10. However, my structure was only revealed by the
electron microscope
11. I consist of a stack of flattened membrane-bound
sacs called cisternae
12. I was discovered by an Italian physician, Camillo
Golgi, during an investigation of the nervous
system
WHO AM I? ANSWER: Golgi Apparatus/
Golgi Body/Golgi complex/Dictyosome
RIDDLE 572
6. I operate on the basis of an effect that is
sometimes undesirable.
7. I am however very useful
8. You may find me in electronic appliances
and electrical installations.
9. I use mutual inductance to desirable effect.
10. I transform voltages in alternating circuits.
Who am I? ANSWER: Transformer
RIDDLE 573
6. I am an inorganic substance
 7. I may be produced when a certain metal is
burnt in excess air
8. I dissolve in water to give a solution which
turns red litmus blue
9. The metal from which I am formed is never
found in nature in the uncombined state
10. That metal is the eighth most abundant
element in the earth’s crust with atomic
number 12
Who am I? ANSWER: Magnesium
oxide (MgO)
RIDDLE 574
19. I am a property of geometrical figures.
20. Two figures with me fit exactly on each other.
21. As an example, two circles with the same radius
satisfy me.
22. Two line segments with same length satisfy me.
23. I represent equality in size and shape.
24. For triangles, recall ASA, SSS, SAS.
Who am I? ANSWER: Congruence
RIDDLE 575
16. I am an integer.
17. My smallest value is 1.
18. My largest known value is relatively small,
less than 120.
19. I describe a nuclide.
20. I distinguish hydrogen from helium from
lithium from beryllium and so on.
Who am I? ANSWER: Atomic number
RIDDLE 576
6. I am Greek in origin.
7. Among my proponents are Aristotle, Plato,
Euclid and Pythagoras.
8. My name suggests I have something to do with
the earth by way of measurements.
9. I am a branch of Mathematics.
10. In my basic form, I am concerned with points,
lines and planes.
Who am I? ANSWER: GEOMETRY
RIDDLE 577
6. I am a hydrocarbon.
7. I am fully saturated.
8. I have a straight backbone.
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9. The number of carbons in my molecule is an odd
number which is also a square of an odd prime
number.
10. If the number of hydrogens in my molecule is an
exact multiple of 10, then
Who am I? ANSWER: Nonane (C9H20)
RIDDLE 578
7. I am a globe shaped structure.
8. I am surrounded by a socket.
9. My name means to measure or estimate roughly by
sight.
10. I am also used to refer to an overhead light fixture
that is mounted on a swivel in a recessed socket so
the light can be directed in any direction.
11. I am covered externally by the eyelids
12. I am the ball-shaped capsule containing the
vertebrate eye
WHO AM I? ANSWER: Eyeball
RIDDLE 578
Q. I am emitted by atomic nuclei but I am never found
inside the nucleus. When I am emitted from a nucleus,
the mass number of the nucleus remains unchanged
although I do have mass. If I were traveling at
constant speed perpendicular to a magnetic field, my
path would be circular. I am deflected by an electric
field in a direction opposite to the field. Although I
am not found inside a nucleus, I am always found
outside the nucleus of a neutral atom, where I am
known by another name. Who am I? (C)
A. Beta particle (or electron).
RIDDLE 579
Q. I am a hydrocarbon, not very stable. My instability
is not due to the presence of a labile functional group.
My chemical formula would suggest that I do react
with hydrogen in the presence of metal catalyst but I
do not. I have four planes of symmetry. I have a lot in
common with a square. If I have four carbons in my
molecule, who am I? (C)
A. Cyclobutane (C4H8)
RIDDLE 580
Q. I am a naturally occurring polymer. The orientation
of the bonds in me makes me suitable as a structural
compound. The name of my monomer units in Greek
means “full of sweet”. Most animals including
humans cannot digest me. In spite of that, I am
recommended as part of the diet of humans because I
provide roughage. Ruminants store bacteria in their
rumen to enable them digest me. Who am I? (C)
A. Cellulose
RIDDLE 581
Q. I am a rate of change associated with motion. To
be precise I am a rate of change of a rate of change. In
a way I determine the force on a moving body. Force
is a product of mass and me. When a body is at rest or
moving with a uniform velocity I am zero. Who am I?
(P)
A. Acceleration
RIDDLE 582
Q. I am a force of nature. I am considered a feeble force,
but my influence extends very far indeed. I have no power
over charge—I leave that to a force described by Charles
Coulomb. I am always attractive, and all that which has
mass cannot escape my action. I was first described by Sir
Isaac Newton, whose name is carried by the law that
describes me. Who am I? (P)
A. Gravity
RIDDLE 583
Q. My atomic number is an even number. I am lightweight
but full of life. I am a great supporter of life, if you doubt
this, go to the nearest hospital to see. I am one of the few
molecular elements in the Periodic Table. Surprisingly I
also support destruction on a massive scale—for without
me, fires will not last even for a second. Metals love me as
they combine with me to form acidic or basic compounds.
Who am I? (C)
A. Oxygen/Oxygen gas/O2
RIDDLE 584
Q. I am an organelle. Unlike many organelles I am found
in both Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. I am the basis for
distinction between the two types of endoplasmic
reticulum. I contain both RNA and protein. In fact, I am the
site for the synthesis of protein in the cell. Who am I? (B)
A. Ribosome
RIDDLE 585
Q. I am a number in the twenty first century. You can say I
am a pair of twins. The sum of my digits is a square of an
even prime number. My first and third digits are an even
prime and my second and last digits amount to nothing. I
am supposed to have some vision about me as trumpeted
all over the place. Remember my first two digits are the
same as my last two digits. Who am I? (M)
A. 2020
RIDDLE 586
Q. I am a process encountered both in the laboratory and in
industry. I join many small molecules together to form
giant molecules. In nature, formation of natural rubber is a
carbon copy of my industrial process. I charge no fees so
nothing is taken away from the constituent molecules. One
of my industrial end-products has turned out to be a major
pollutant. Nylon is made not through me. Who am I? (C)
A. Addition Polymerisation
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RIDDLE 587
Q. I am a member of a phylum that is characterised by
having jointed appendages. I am a nocturnal animal and
inhabit freshwater streams, ponds and rivers. My body has
two distinct regions – cephalothorax and abdomen. The
first five abdominal segments possess a pair of Pleopods
for swimming. My sixth and last abdominal segment has a
pair of uropods for backward spring in water. Who am I?
(B)
A. Prawn
RDDLE 588
Q. I am an electrical device. I can store electric charge,
which I can then release to extraordinary effect as in a
photoflash. I am usually made with a pair of conductors
and an insulator between them. Increase the distance
between the conductors, and the charge I store for a given
voltage decreases. Increase the area of the conductors, and
the charge I store for the same voltage increases. Who am
I? (P)
A. Capacitor
RIDDLE 589
Q. I am the modern oracle. I can tell you whether a
statement is true or false. With me there are only two
possibilities - True or False. I can determine whether two
statements are logically equivalent or not. You can say that
I am the altar of truth. I am the Venn diagram of logic.
Who am I? (M)
A. Truth Table
RIDDLE 590
Q. I am a dye but not of vegetable origin. I am not used for
dyeing textiles like most other dyes. Like a chameleon I
change colour with my environment. I am sensitive to
changes in pH in my environment. pH 7 is magical to me; I
am red below it and yellow above it. I am used for certain
types of volumetric analyses. Who am I? (C)
A. Methyl orange (indicator)
RIDDLE 591
Q. I am part of a structure in living organisms. I absorb
water from undigested materials and concentrate it into
faeces. My inability to absorb water will lead to severe
diarrhoea, and dehydration in an individual. I am the first
part of the large intestine. In everyday English I am
represented by two dots, one on top and the other directly
below. Who am I? (B)
A. Colon
RIDDLE 592
Q. I am associated with electrical devices and appliances.
Unlike current and voltage, I always evaluate to a number
whose magnitude is never greater than 1. To save your
electric power bill, make sure I am as close to 1 as you can.
This can be done by ensuring the reactance of your
electrical device is minimal. Without me, you cannot tell
the actual power an alternating current electrical appliance
consumes, even if you know both voltage and current. But
if you know the actual power you find me by dividing by
the product of current and voltage. If you do not know the
actual power, find me by the cosine of the phase difference
between current and voltage. Who am I? (P)
A. Power factor
RIDDLE 593
Q. I am an arithmetic of some sort. I am often termed clock
arithmetic. I am involved with congruence of numbers.
Remainders after division are my main products. I reduce
every number to a remainder after division by a fixed
number. I am the arithmetic of circular events. Who am I?
(M)
A. Modular Arithmetic
RIDDLE 594
Q. I am an organ that lies deep in the abdominal
cavity. I normally rest on the posterior abdominal
wall. I am elongated and somewhat flattened. I
produce digestive enzymes and hormones. In fact I
produce the hormone insulin which regulates the
glucose level in the blood. Who am I? (B)
A. Pancreas
RIDDLE 595
Q. I am of the dark, though not completely dark as the
other whose name I share. This other and I are both
shadows, but I am only almost a shadow. Who am I?
(P)
A. Penumbra
RIDDLE 596
Q. I am a geometric figure. I am not a polyhedron but
I am a pyramid. My volume is a third of the product
of my height, π and base area. I sit on a circular base.
My net is a sector of a circle, and I am formed when a
sector of a circle is folded for the two boundary radii
to coincide. Who am I? (M)
A. Cone
RIDDLE 597
Q. I am an inorganic compound. More appropriately I
may be referred to as a salt. In water I easily break up
to give two species, with opposite charges. One of my
elements belong to group I A and the other group VII
A. My solution will impart a yellowish colour to a
colourless flame. My component from group VII A is
the 3rd lightest in weight. Who am I? (C)
A. Sodium Bromide (NaBr)
RIDDLE 598
Q. I am a force. Although my effects do not appear electric
or magnetic, I can be traced to the electromagnetic force.
My presence is often associated with energy loss. If I did
not exist, you could not walk or remain seated, vehicles
could not be driven, a ladder could not be propped against
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a wall, and a freely moving object would never come to
rest. Who am I? (P)
A. Friction
RIDDLE 599
Q. I have the unique characteristic that I change nothing. I
am associated with binary operations. I am content with
maintaining the status quo. You will find me with addition
and multiplication of numbers but not with subtraction or
division. For addition of numbers I am nothing and for
multiplication I am the first natural number. Who am I?
(M)
A. Identity
RIDDLE 600
Q. I am a binary organic compound, soluble in ethanol and
diethyl ether. I should be classified as a salt but with so
much anionic character, I wonder if that classification is
correct. One of my components is the smallest and the
lightest from its original community. My other component
is the second biggest and second heaviest in its community.
My so-called cation is reputed to have the strongest
polarising power. My anion is probably the most easily
polarised simple anion. Who am I? (C)
A. Lithium Iodide (LiI)
RIDDLE 601
Q. I am a nine letter word. The first five letters of my name
represent a musical instrument. My name is used to
describe small bodies in the cytoplasm, each with a specific
function. Most, but not all of my members are enclosed by
membranes. Some of my members include mitochondria
and chloroplast. Who am I? (B)
A. Organelle
Q. I am a popular rule in mathematics. I am in a way,
a modification of Pythagoras theorem. For the right
type of triangle, I am Pythagoras theorem. I am
applied to triangles. To be precise I can be used to
find the angles of a triangle with given sides. My
name begins with a trigonometric ratio. Who am I?
(M)
A. Cosine Rule
Q. I am a member of a group whose name in Greek
means “before a nucleus”. I am adapted to living in
any kind of environment. I am just visible with the
light microscope but I am more metabolically
competent than even human beings. My metabolic
capability is exploited by humans to produce a wide
variety of chemicals. Mu name means rods. A
complex molecule called peptidoglycan is associated
with my cell wall. Who am I? (B)
A. Bacteria
Q. I make drops of mercury as round as can be. The
surface of a liquid in a small tube is curved because of
me and you use me to cause a steel needle to float on
water. If I did not exist, mosquitoes could not walk on
water. Who am I? (P)
A. Surface Tension
Q. My neutral compounds have everything in
common with an item in the Egyptian landscape. But I
am only an element. The difference between the shape
of my compounds and that of the Egyptian item is that
one has a trigonal base and the other a square base.
My atoms at the elemental stage know nothing like
independence. They are always in association in fact,
in twos. The number 7, 14 and 28 are very important
to me. Who am I? (P)
A. Nitrogen (gas)
Q. I was a Swedish naturalist. I lived from 1708-1778. In
school I was nicknamed the ‘Little botanist’. I inherited my
passion for plants from my father who was a minister and a
gardener. I set out to classify all known organisms
according to their genera. In fact my system of
classification of organisms, that is, binomial nomenclature
is now used throughout the entire world. Who am I? (B)
A. Carolus Linnaeus
Q. I am an event in the life of a liquid. When I occur
temperature comes to a dead stop: it can neither increase
nor decrease; but heat takes flight all the same. In the end I
transform the liquid into a shapely mass whereas before me
it had no shape of its own. Who am I? (P)
A. Freezing
Q. I am a 2 digit decimal number. The sum of my digits is
a two digit square. The difference of my two digits is
nothing to write home about. I am a pair of twins. Each of
my digits is an exact cube. In factorisation, I am a product
of a cube and a number one short of a dozen. Who am I?
(M)
A. 88
Q. Though I am plentiful in the earth’s crust, you would
hardly find me pure. Once I am found in the combined
state mankind would do everything possible to put me back
into my elements. But I wonder why they would purify me
at a piggery of all places. Then they would add impurities
of their choice to me just to obtain solids of varying
properties. With a bit of chromium I become a shining
example. With a bit of manganese I become hard enough to
be able to support heavy train coaches with all the
passengers. Who am I? (C)
A. (Pig/Cast) Iron
Q. I am a quantitative method in Chemistry and in
scientific analysis in general. Some of my lieutenants
are crucibles, beakers and glass filter. To execute me
well, you need to prepare a solution and add another
reagent to cause precipitation. Filtration and drying
are also a necessity. I am a reliable way of
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determining cheaply the amount of chloride in a solid
sample. Who am I? (C)
A. Gravimetric analysis
Q. I am a type of cell in plants. I always occur in pair.
I am typically shaped like a bean, sausage or
dumbbell. My name signifies a protector or security. I
regulate most of the water and air entering the leaf
through the stomata. Who am I? (B)
A. Guard cell
Q. I occur when temperature changes. Because of this,
I have been used to measure and regulate temperature.
When I do occur, the sizes of objects change. Because
of me, long bridges are made in sections with a gap
between them so that the bridge does not buckle on a
hot day. Who am I? (P)
A. Thermal expansion
Q. I am in the comparison business. I may be
represented as a fraction. There are times I am in my
simplest form. For two numbers a and b I am the
a
fraction . Mind you I am not a proportion or a rate.
b
Two of me are equivalent if their corresponding
fractions in simplest form are the same. Who am I?
(M)
A. Ratio
I am a multicellular freshwater organism. I attach myself to
aquatic vegetation in ponds and streams. I have a radially
symmetrical cylindrical body. My body wall is composed
of an outer ectoderm and an inner endoderm with jelly-like
mesoglea in between. Are you still wondering who I am?
Well, my mouth is encircled by a number of hollow
tentacles. Who am I? (B)
A. Hydra
Q. I am a light emitter. I absorb light just as well as I emit
it. My mood depends on temperature: I am red when
somewhat hot, orange when quite hot, and white when very
hot. Who am I? (P)
A. Blackbody
Q. I unite or join together as in marriage. You can say I am
a binary operation. I unite collections of objects. When I
combine any set with itself, I produce the same set. As a
binary operation, I am closer to addition of numbers. Who
am I? (M)
A. Union
Q. I am a ternary compound made up of heptaatomic
molecules. I tend to dissolve and disintegrate easily in
water, otherwise I am quite stable. My atoms are from the
1st, 2nd and 3rd periods of the Periodic Table in the
increasing order of atomic mass. All internal combustion
engines need some kick from me. This kick comes from a
chemical reaction in which I play a significant role. I am
also used in the laboratory as a reagent for qualitative and
quantitative analyses. Among the mechanics, I am the only
acid known. Who am I? (C)
A. (conc.) Sulphuric acid/ H2SO4
Q. I am associated with fluids. There are instances
when I am not welcome, but you might prefer me to
what you get when two solids rub against each other.
Because of me, objects falling from large distances
attain a terminal velocity. I am given a high value for
thick oils and lower value for water. Who am I? (P)
A. Viscosity
Q. I am a solid figure. In a way I am a measure of
volume. Regularity is my main characteristic. I have
six regular faces, six pairs of parallel regular sides or
edges and eight vertices. Each of my face is a square.
You can say I am a regular cuboid. Who am I? (M)
A. Cube
Q. I am a unique manufacturing process. I am not only
the principal means of keeping all forms of humanity
functioning, but I am the sole means of sustaining life
at any level, except for a few bacteria. Directly or
indirectly, I give rise to almost all the carbon
compounds in living organisms. I utilize the portion of
electromagnetic spectrum known as visible light. Who
am I? (B)
A. Photosynthesis
Q. The Greeks named me after the sun. I have two
natural isotopes. I am found everywhere in the
universe except in the biosphere where I exist in trace
amounts. I have the lowest melting point of all
elements. My liquid cannot be turned into solid
simply by lowering temperature. It has to be done
under pressure. I am used as an inert gas for arc
welding. I am also used extensively in flying balloons.
Who am I? (C)
A. Helium/He
Q. I am the inverse of an exponential. I bring down mighty
powers. Mind you I am a power unto myself. I am another
word for an index or an exponent. I reduce a product into a
sum. I am a tool for computation. I was invented by a
Scottish gentleman by name John Napier. I am a log with a
rhythm. Who am I? (M)
A. Logarithm
Q. I am a time machine. I can take you to an early time in
the history of the universe. This I do by showing you light
from distant parts of the universe, light that carries images
of the universe at an earlier time. I am usually made of
mirrors or lenses or both. There is one of me in space
which goes by the name Hubble. Who am I? (P)
A. Telescope
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Q. I am a parasitic organism. I am a hermaphrodite. My
name signifies a measuring instrument. Even though I have
a head, I possess neither a circulatory system, nor a
digestive tract. I depend on diffusion for exchange of gases
and nutrient absorption. I infect humans when they eat
improperly cooked infected pork. Who am I? (B)
A. A tapeworm
Q. I am a sparingly soluble inorganic substance. I am made
of only 2 elements. One of my elements is a metal, found
in two important alloys. My other element, a non-metal
belongs to group VI of the periodic table. I am associated
with one of the popular organic qualitative tests. My colour
is reddish brown or brick-red as some scientists would
prefer to describe me. My metal belongs to the community
where silver and gold are close neighbours. Who am I? (C)
A. Copper (I) oxide [Cu2O]
Q. I am a graph of some sort. Rectangles are my main
feature. Associated with me are class boundaries and
class marks. I am used to represent data and to be
precise I am a graph of a frequency distribution. My
name suggests I am part of history and part of a
diagram. Who am I? (M)
A. Histogram
Q. I am a type of organelle. I normally appear as a
group of flat roundish sacs. Even though I am
bounded by branching tubules that originate from the
endoplasmic recticulum, I am not directly connected
to it. Complex carbohydrates are assembled within
me. These carbohydrates are collected in small
vesicles that pinch off from my margins. One might
describe my components as collecting, packaging and
delivery centres. Who am I? (B)
A. Golgi Body/Dictyosome
Q. I am nothing, yet I have a name. Where I am, no
breathing creature can be. I simplify many Physics
problems, because in my presence, there is no such
thing as air resistance. It has been said that nature
abhors me, but I still exist all the same. I am
emptiness. Who am I? (P)
A. Vacuum
Q. I am a hydrocarbon. My molecules are as flat as
pancakes. I am also an aromatic compound with a
high degree of unsaturation. Indeed there are more
carbons than hydrogens in my molecules. At home, I
am a good substitute for camphor. We both sublime
and we are pesticides. While camphor is obtained
from plants, I am obtained from petroleum. Who am
I? (C)
A. Naphthalene (C10H8)
Q. All scientists, especially chemists either love me or hate
me. I am not an insurance agent or a political party agent.
But I am an agent for change. Like a bank I always give
away my valuable currency. When I do so, I reduce the
indebtedness of my clients towards the community. If the
electron is my currency then who am I? (C)
A. Reducing agent
Q. I am an organism described as having a flattened body.
In spite of that, I am active and feed on insects, worms and
other small animals. My body is divided into segments, and
from each segment arises a pair of walking legs. Don’t play
with the pair of legs on my front segment, because it is
modified into a poisonous claw. Who am I? (B)
A. Centipede
Q. I am an electrical device. I do not obey Ohm’s Law. I
am now commonly made with two types of materials
joined together. One of those is called N but it has nothing
to do with “north”. I allow the flow of current in one
direction but not the other, so I am used to construct
circuits that convert alternating current to direct current.
Who am I? (P)
A. Diode
Q. I am a diagram. I am a set of points in the plane. Each
point represents a pair of measurements. As my name
suggests, my points are scattered all over the plane.
Associated with me are correlation and linear regression.
Mind you I am a diagram of points scattered in the plane.
Who am I? (M)
A. Scatter diagram
Q. I am a heavy, silvery white metal slightly softer
than steel. When I am finely divided, I am attacked by
water. Generally I dissolve in acids but I am not
affected by alkali. I have as many as 14 isotopes
which are all radioactive. My most abundant isotope
has a half-life of 4,500 million years. I have an atomic
number of 92 and almost 1.5 times as many neutrons.
I am named after a planet. I am an important basic
nuclear fuel. Who am I? (C)
A. Uranium
Q. I am one of the youngest of the biological sciences.
As a science, I originated about a generation before
my significance became appreciated in the scientific
community as a whole. I am fully developed after the
details of meiosis and mitosis became understood. To
a large extent, I am based on the laws of an Austrian
monk. I am concerned with the study of heredity and
variation. Who am I? (B)
A. Genetics
Q. I am associated with an electromagnetic
phenomenon. I am important enough to be a separate
law of nature and I am named for a physicist of old.
Wherever you find changing magnetic fields, there
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you can find me. I describe the direction of the
electromagnetic phenomenon which accompanies
changing magnetic fields. Who am I? (P)
A. Lenz’s law
Q. I have a linguistic association with a polytechnic. I
am a solid with polygonal faces. With me two
intersecting faces end up in an edge or side. Examples
of me are cube, cuboid, pyramid and prism. You can
say I am the union of vertices, edges and polygonal
faces. Who am I? (M)
A. Polyhedron
Q. Usually I am nobody until or unless my partner is
around. The funny thing is that the moment my partner
turns up I hide him. My partner and I can sometimes
exchange our identity. When I am forcibly removed from
where I am, my partner may be discovered. My removal
from my partner takes a bit of effort and requires heat
energy or refrigeration. I come in all forms but my most
familiar and favourite form is the liquid form, with my
partner being in the solid form. I am generic but water and
ethanol can represent me well. Who am I? (C)
A. Solvent
Q. I am a specialised protoplasmic body. I exist in various
forms, but can change from one form to another. I am
absent in animal cells but most plant cells have several
kinds of me. One of my members is mostly present in the
petals of flowers, and in fruits. My members occur in a
variety of shapes and sizes. The Chloroplast is my most
conspicuous member. Who am I? (B)
A. Plastids
Q. I am a transformation in the plane. I preserve size and
shape. You can say I a rigid body motion. With me I have
nothing to do with mirrors or a mirror line. I am involved
in sliding along a line segment. I have associated with me a
vector. The vector completely determines my
transformation. Who am I? (M)
A. Translation
Q. I am a phenomenon associated with waves. Unlike
polarisation, I am associated with both longitudinal and
transverse waves. I am named for an Austrian physicist
who first described me in the 18th century. Astronomers are
fond of me, because I can tell the speed of stars. If you
need to find the speed of a vehicle I can be of service. If
you have ever heard the siren of a speeding ambulance,
you undoubtedly have witnessed an occurrence of me. If
you still wonder which effect I am, my name starts with D.
Who am I? (P)
A. Doppler effect
Q. In the 20th century, geneticists who were interested
in determining the chemical nature of the genetic
material began to work with me. I have two types of
life cycles, termed lytic and lysogenic cycles. Even
though my name sounds like bacteria I am rather a
virus. My name literally means ‘eater of bacteria’,
because I attack bacteria. One type of bacteria readily
infected by me is E. coli which lives in the
mammalian large intestine. Who am I? (B)
A. Bacteriophage/Phages
Q. I am part of computer programming. With me I am
mainly interested in optimised values namely
maximum and minimum. Associated with me are
objective function and constraints. My objective
function is normally a linear function of two or more
variables. My constraints are linear inequalities. I am
a process for finding maximum or minimum value of
an objective function subject to some constraints.
Who am I? (M)
A. Linear programming
Q. I am a phenomenon associated with sound. To find
me you need two sound waves. Though I emerge from
your two waves, I have a rhythm all my own. It is best
if the waves have the same amplitude, but they must
have somewhat different frequencies. My rhythm is
just the difference of your two frequencies. You could
say I march to a different drum beat. Who am I? (P)
A. Beats
Q. I studied in Canada and lectured in the United
Kingdom. I did not discover radioactivity but results
of some of my experiments confirm some of the
principles of radioactivity. I directed my research
students to bombard a thin gold foil with α-particles.
The unexpected results led to an important discovery
about the structure of the atom. I showed that the mass
of the atom si concentrated at its nucleus. Who am I?
(C)
A. Ernest Rutherford
Q. I am a phenomenon associated with periodic systems. I
am an instrument by which the small can conquer the
mighty, because by me small changes can lead to large
effects. By means of me a soft sound can become so
powerful it can cause a glass jar to shatter. Because of me,
a marching column always breaks step when a bridge is
crossed. If none of this resonates with you, think of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Who am I? (P)
A. Resonance
Q. I have a positive attitude so far as numbers are
concerned, I leave some numbers unchanged and at worst,
I reverse the sign of some numbers. I always produce non-
negative numbers. I merely remove the sign of a number.
Mind you, with me 2 is 2 but -2 is also 2. I am absolute in
my evaluation of number. Who am I? (M)
A. Absolute value
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Q. My name comes from a Swedish phrase which means
‘heavy stone’. I am a d-transition metal with atomic
number 74. My familiar valencies are 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I do
not occur in nature in the pure uncombined state. However
in my pure state I am grayish-white. I am reputed to have
the lowest vapour pressure and the highest melting point
among members of my community. If you really do not
know me, you cannot identify me from my symbol because
the two are as far apart as Tumu and Worawora. I am used
extensively for electrical filaments and heating elements
for furnaces. Who am I? (C)
A. Tungsten (W)
Q. I was raised on a farm and therefore was aware of
agricultural principles and their applications. At the
University of Vienna, I studied Mathematics, Physics and
Botany. My ambition was to be a teacher but I repeatedly
failed the necessary examinations and had to content
myself with a job as a substitute Science Teacher. I taught
between 1853 and 1868 in what became the
Czechoslovakia city of Brno. Today, I am best known for
studies I conducted with a number of varieties of pea
plants. Who am I? (B)
A. Gregor Mendel
Q. Although in reality I do not exist, I am fully
described by four variables and one constant, even
though with three variables you would still do a good
job. Three famous laws describe my behaviour, and
yet I obey one simple equation. If you plot the right
kind of graph, I will lead you to the absolute zero of
temperature. Who am I? (C)
A. Ideal gas
Q. I am organic compound. My carbon atoms always
move about in a single file. I am also a binary
compound so you can guess which elements are
present in my molecules. The population of my other
element is twice as many as carbons present. This
really means I am unsaturated. The missing elements
are on the 3rd and 4th carbons. If I have a total of 7
carbons, then who am I? (C)
A. 3 – Heptene
Q. I am a nine letter word. The first four letters of my
name refers to a pennant which is unique for each
country. I am considered as hair-like extension of
certain cells. Indeed I am involved in locomotion and
transport of some free living eukaryotic cells. Unlike
cilia, I am long; occur singly or in small groups. Who
am I? (B)
A. Flagellum
Q. I am a numerical expression. I am part of
absurdity. I am an irrational number. I usually involve
a root sign. I have a partner or conjugate and the
product of me with my conjugate gives a rational
number. My simplification sometimes involves
rationalisation of the denominator. Who am I? (M)
A. Surd
Q. My name is in two parts. One part is the name of fruit
but the other one is as dead as the Dead Sea. You would
find me in any factory where Portland cement and glass are
manufactured. I am also an important raw material in the
Blast Furnace. I am a member of a set of triplets. I am the
only one used to harsh conditions as the others stay with
the rich or the educated. Who am I? (C)
A. Limestone
Q. I am a phenomenon of nature. When I appear all
darkness disappears, and night becomes as bright as day. I
am created by electricity. My arrival is usually presaged by
a radio pulse. At times I am accompanied by a thunderous
sound. When you here that thunderous clap, seek shelter,
because I come in a fiery electric column, in whose path
nothing stands. Who am I? (P)
A. Lightening
Q. I am a strong but flexible nitrogenous polysaccharide. I
am found in many places throughout the natural world. In
terms of structure, I may be compared to cellulose and, in
terms of function, to the protein keratin. My properties as a
flexible and strong material make me favourable as
surgical thread. I am a structural material of arthropod
exoskeletons and fungal cell walls. Even though I am a
polymer of glucose, I am not digestible by humans. Who
am I? (B)
A. Chitin
Q. I am a geometrical figure. I am like a segment
determined by two points but I am not a line. As the
expression goes I am a quantum of hope or light. I am half
of a line. I am more like a vector but I have a starting point
but no endpoint. Two of me with the same initial point
form an angle. Who am I? (M)
A. A ray
Q. I am a molecule that functions as the secondary
long-term energy storage in animal and fungal cells. I
am a suitable storage substance due to my insolubility
in water. Marathon runners go through a phenomenon
known as “hitting the wall” when my stores are
depleted after long periods of exertion. I am normally
referred to as animal starch. Who am I? (B)
A. Glycogen
Q. I am a storage collection of objects so you can say
I am a set. However my objects cannot be listed. I am
a subset of every set. Like the empty barrel, I make no
sound. I am the complement of the universal set. I am
the identity in the operation of union of sets. Two sets
are disjoint if their intersection is me. Who am I? (M)
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A. Null set or empty set
Q. I am a transformer. Unlike the ordinary transformer
which changes one voltage into another, I change else
into voltage. I work best on a sunny day. I can only
give a small voltage, but that should not worry you,
because you can connect several of me into a module
which can give you as much electricity as you want.
Who am I? (P)
A. Solar cell
Q. Some of us are man-made. There are many of us
too who are made by nature. We all play very
important roles in man’s life. Surprisingly, those of us
made by man have eventually become man’s enemies.
Man would want to get rid of us the man-made but
does not know how. Enzymes, polythene, starch and
PVC are just a few representatives of us. Who are we?
(C)
A. Polymers
Q. I have associations in Chemistry, Biology and
Mathematics. In Mathematics I am an answer to a problem.
In Chemistry I am a solution of no specific description. In
Biology, I am part of a plant normally hidden from view.
More specifically, I am a solution of an equation. Who am
I? (B)
A. Root
Q. I am an electrical phenomenon. I convert electricity into
heat but I am not the same phenomenon that produces heat
in an electric resistance heater. Whenever I produce a high
temperature, I also produce a cold temperature. I can also
produce electricity from a temperature difference. Who am
I? (P)
A. Thermoelectric effect
Q. I am an indispensable tool of most biologists. I trace my
origins to a family of Dutch spectacle makers, in the year
1590. While experimenting with several lenses in a tube,
they discovered that nearby objects appeared greatly
enlarged. I have made visible the fascinating details of
worlds within worlds. I enable the human eye, by means of
combinations of lenses, to observe enlarged images of tiny
objects. Who am I? (P)
A. (Light) Microscope
Q. As an element I am found both free and in the combined
state in nature. My fourth allotrope is a synthetic one. I can
be white or black or glassy depending on which allotropic
form you find. With hydrogen alone I form thousands of
compounds. I have as many as 7 isotopes, some of which
are radioisotopes. One of the radioisotopes has an
equilibrium concentration in all living things. It is therefore
widely used to date archaeological specimen. Who am I?
(C)
A. Carbon (C)
Q. I was a German medical doctor and a
microbiologist. I became known for my investigations
of anthrax and tuberculosis. I discovered the bacteria
responsible for tuberculosis and cholera. As a result of
my work, I formulated the rules of proving that a
particular microorganism is the cause of a disease. My
rules with minor modifications are still followed
today. Who am I? (B)
A. Robert Koch
Q. If I were an animal I would be regarded as a
hermaphrodite. But I am not an animal, I am an
inorganic substance. I am both an acid and a base. My
molecules are made up of three elements, one of them
a Group II B metal. The others are non-metals. I
dissolve in water to give two ions, a cation derived
from the metal and an anion made up of the two non-
metals. One of the non-metals is derived from the
lightest element. My metal part forms a useful and
popular alloy with copper. Who am I? (C)
A. Zinc hydroxide [Zn(OH)2]
Q. Without motion, I do not exist. I am always
conserved. I am named in a famous law of motion
which bears the name of a famous scientist. You
cannot determine my value just from the mass of an
object because without motion I am nothing. A force
always causes a change in me. My rate is just the
force. Who am I? (P)
A. Momentum
Q. I operate in pairs. I may be commutative or
associative. A set may be closed under me.
Occasionally, I may even have an identity. Examples
of me are addition and union. I combine two at a time,
hence my name. Who am I? (M)
A. Binary operation
Q. I was born in Germany in 1879. As a physicist, I have
many accomplishments. I was the first to solve the problem
of electron emission from illuminated surfaces. For this
achievement I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
However, I am better known for my formula which relates
mass and energy E=mc 2 . Who am I? (P)
A. Albert Einstein
Q. I am a multifunctional nucleotide present in cells. I am
present in the cytoplasm as well as the nucleoplasm of
every cell. I am considered by biologists as the energy
currency of life. This is because I am consumed in the cell
by energy-requiring processes and can be generated by
energy-releasing processes. I am the main energy source
for the majority of cellular functions. Who am I? (B)
A. Adenosine Tri-phosphate (ATP)
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Q. I am concerned with points, lines, circles and curves in
a plane. I am geometry of some sort. I am an application of
algebra to plane geometry. I involve coordinates of a point,
equation of a line and generally equations of the locus of a
point in the coordinate plane. Who am I? (M)
A. Coordinate Geometry
Q. I am a binary, inorganic compound. I have only
covalent bonds, although very soluble in water. My two
elements are both non-metallic. My aqueous solution turns
red litmus blue. My central atom has sp3 hybridised orbitals
but my molecule is not the shape usually associated with
such hybridization. If Nitrogen and Hydrogen are my
elements, then who am I? (C)
A. Ammonia [NH3]
Q. I am two in one. I belong to the couples group. If
you are single, you cannot join us. I have a nickname
which seems to suggest that I like on the largest man-
made lake in Africa. The surprising thing is that my
two halves are not allowed to share a bedroom. I
convert chemical energy into electrical energy. Who
am I? (C)
A. Primary/Voltaic/Photochemical cell
Q. I was invented in the 1960s. I am well known for
the light I produce. My light is monochromatic and
coherent. It has high intensity and low divergence.
Because of these properties, it is used in cutters, dvd
players/theodolites and even surgery. Who am I? (P)
A. Laser
Q. In a way, I am a ratio. Thus I am classified as
being a proper or an improper fraction. I am a ratio of
two polynomial functions. I am often resolved into
partial fractions. My domain is determined from the
zeros of my denominator. My name indicates I am the
ratio of functions. Who am I? (M)
A. Rational Function
Q. I am a network of flattened sacs and tubes. I
normally form channels throughout the cytoplasm. In
section, I appear as a series of parallel membranes.
My presence normally creates sub-compartments
within a cell. The nucleus which directs the various
activities of the cell is connected to me. The word
rough, is added to my name when I have ribosomes
attached to my surface. Who am I? (B)
A. Endoplasmic Recticulum
Q. I was a French soldier, a naturalist, and an academic. I
developed a particular interest in botany, and later,
published a three-volume work called Flora francaise. I
am an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred
and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Today, I
am mostly remembered for the theory of inheritance of
acquired characteristics. Who am I? (B)
A. Jean Lamarck
Q. I am so strong that I can change the shape of even big
molecules. I am a relationship that involves elements to the
right of the Periodic Table. But that is not enough; I need
the participation of the lightest element in the Periodic
Table. I relate better with liquids and solids and to a limited
extent with gases. I am responsible for the relatively high
boiling point of water compared to its siblings. Who am I?
(C)
A. Hydrogen bonding
Q. I am electronic device. I am made with transistors and
other electronic components. I usually have two inputs and
one output. A voltage at one of my inputs results in an
output with opposite sign so that input is called inverting. I
can amplify a small voltage difference at my inputs to give
a large output voltage. How much amplification you get
depends on what feedback resistors and other components
you connect to me. Who am I? (P)
A. Operational amplifier
Q. For a function, there are two of us, like a pilot and a co-
pilot. I determine whether a function makes sense or not.
To be precise, I am a set. I consist of independent values of
a variable. For the function y=f ( x ), I am the set of all
values of x . For any polynomial function, I am the set of
real numbers. Who am I? (M)
A. Domain (of a function)
Q. I am a unicellular organism, but I occasionally
occur in chains. My cell wall consists of two silica-
impregnated valves. I occur in both fresh and marine
water but I am particularly abundant in colder marine
waters. In fact as a rule, the colder the water, the
greater my numbers. I am a popular tool for
monitoring environmental conditions, past and
present, and commonly used in studies of water
quality. My fossil deposits can be processed to give a
hard powder used in filtration processes and as an
abrasive. Who am I? (C)
A. Diatom
Q. I am an electrical instrument. Although I can be
used for quantitative measurements, I am frequently
simply used as a detector. I am made of two
conductors. One of the conductors is usually very thin
so it is called a leaf. I can tell you the sign of charge
on an object. Who am I? (P)
A. Electroscope
Q. I am a constant. I do not associate with the strong
and rich in my society but with the weak. I remain a
constant only at a constant temperature. I measure
some equilibrium processes of some compounds in
water. The compounds must have an electron pair. By
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looking at my size you can tell if the compound
involved is a good team player or not. Who am I? (C)
A. Base Dissociation constant, Kb.
Q. There are two of us like a pair of fraternal twins.
One of us is an array of numbers. If you add the term
of one, you get the other. Examples of us may be
described as linear and exponential or AP and GP.
Dealing with us involves finding a general term and
sum of a number of terms. Who am I? (M)
A. Sequences and series (Give one mark for just one
of them)
Q. I am an organ with several functions. Many of my
functions are accomplished by simple mechanisms of
filtration, re-absorption, and secretion. I serve essential
regulatory roles in most animals, including vertebrates and
some invertebrates. I serve the body as a natural filter of
the blood, and remove wastes which are diverted to the
urinary bladder. I occur in a pair with one on each side of
the spine. Who am I? (B)
A. Kidney
Q. I am an expansion of an algebraic expression. The basic
expression is the sum or difference of two terms raised to
some power. My expansion in some cases can be
performed using a triangle of members popularly called
Pascal’s triangle. In a nutshell, I am an expansion of a
binomial. Who am I? (M)
A. Binomial Expansion
Q. I am a particle. Like all particles, I have energy and
momentum. You cannot tell how much energy I carry by
my mass or my speed. My mass tells you my energy
should be zero, but it is not. My speed tells you my energy
should be very large, but it is not always large. I have the
largest speed any material object can have. I am created
when an atom makes a transition from one energy state to a
lower energy state. Who am I? (P)
A. Photon
Q. I am black and beautiful. Unfortunately I am not well
known in Ghana. When hydrocarbons are mentioned it is
the gaseous and liquid compounds that come to mind; I am
an exception. I am a solid hydrocarbon. I was formed a
million years ago. When I am destructively distilled I give
out a number of gaseous and liquid substances. I used to be
taken for granted in Newcastle in UK. Who am I? (C)
A. Coal
ROUND 4
Q. My name is in two parts. One is that of a container
and the other in chemistry refers to the basic
substances that make up matter. I am typically found
in angiosperms but absent from most gymnosperms
such as the conifers. At maturity, my protoplast dies
and disappears, but my lignified cell walls persist. I
am one of the cell types found in xylem which is the
water conducting tissue of plants. Who am I? (B)
A. Vessel element
Q. I am not a substance, even though I can be
transferred from one body to another. I cannot be said
to be contained in the bodies. When two bodies are in
contact, I am spontaneously transferred from one of
them to the other. But I can also be transferred in the
opposite direction. For this to happen, work must be
done. I am associated with energy, which I transfer in
3 modes: conduction, convection and radiation. Who
am I? (P)
A. Heat
Q. I am an operation on functions. From any given
function, I produce another function. I am used to find
the gradient of a function as well as finding turning
points of a curve. I turn distance into speed and speed
into acceleration. I am a process for determining rates
of change. Who am I? (M)
A. Differentiation
Q. I am an element. I am black. I do not occur free in
nature. I am hard, harder than metals but I do not
pretend to be a metal. I am not malleable I am not a
conductor of electricity. I am an important raw
material for the manufacture of pyrex glass. I am the
first member of group III A of the periodic table. Who
am I? (C)
A. Boron
ROUND 4
Q. My name is in two parts. One is that of a container
and the other in chemistry refers to the basic
substances that make up matter. I am typically found
in angiosperms but absent from most gymnosperms
such as the conifers. At maturity, my protoplast dies
and disappears, but my lignified cell walls persist. I
am one of the cell types found in xylem which is the
water conducting tissue of plants. Who am I? (B)
A. Vessel element
Q. I am not a substance, even though I can be
transferred from one body to another. I cannot be said
to be contained in the bodies. When two bodies are in
contact, I am spontaneously transferred from one of
them to the other. But I can also be transferred in the
opposite direction. For this to happen, work must be
done. I am associated with energy, which I transfer in
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3 modes: conduction, convection and radiation. Who
am I? (P)
A. Heat
Q. I am an operation on functions. From any given
function, I produce another function. I am used to find
the gradient of a function as well as finding turning
points of a curve. I turn distance into speed and speed
into acceleration. I am a process for determining rates
of change. Who am I? (M)
A. Differentiation
Q. I am an element. I am black. I do not occur free in
nature. I am hard, harder than metals but I do not
pretend to be a metal. I am not malleable I am not a
conductor of electricity. I am an important raw
material for the manufacture of pyrex glass. I am the
first member of group III A of the periodic table. Who
am I? (C)
A. Boron
Q. I am a type of ecological interaction. My name
literally means ‘sharing the table together’. In my type
of relationship one species benefits and the other
neither benefits nor harms. Often, the host species
provides a home and/or transportation for the other
species. The small remora fish enjoying a free ride by
the shark is a typical example of my type of
association. Who am I? (B)
A. Commensalism
Q. My name contains an essential ingredient of bread.
Do not look for me in a bakery or in a kitchen. My
name contains stone. I am not a rock, but a bridge. I
have arms, in which I carry resistors. Who am I? (P)
A. Wheatstone bridge
Q. With polynomials I produce polynomials of higher
order. I turn a sine function into a cosine function and
vice versa. I am used to obtain the area under a curve
and volume of a solid of rotation. I turn a constant into
a linear function, a linear function into a quadratic
function and a quadratic function into a cubic
function. My name suggests I bring things together.
Who am I? (M)
A. Integration
Q. I am useful both at home and in the chemistry
laboratory. I am an ionic, inorganic compound with
four different elements in my cation and anion. My
cation is derived from a group I element. My anion is
from 3 non-metallic elements, present in the ration
1:1:3. In the laboratory, I am an acid salt that produces
alkaline solution in water. At home I am useful to
those who bake. Who am I? (C)
A. Sodium hydrogen trioxocarbonate IV OR NaHCO3
OR Baking Soda
Q. I am a band of cell wall material but am chemically
different from the rest of the cell wall. I was first
recognized as a wall structure by a German botanist who
lived from (1818–1887). My width is often much narrower
than the wall in which I occur, but am typically located
closer to the inner tangential wall than the outer. I form a
barrier at which the apoplastic flow is forced to pass
through the selectively permeable plasma membrane into
the cytoplasm. I am normally deposited on the radial and
transverse walls of the endodermis. Who am I? (B)
A. Casparian strip
Q. You can say I am some kind of triangle. I am in a way
an isosceles triangle. To be precise, I am a symmetric
arrangement of numbers. I consist of various rows of
numbers each of which begins and ends with the first
natural number. My numbers are the coefficients in a
binomial expansion. I am somebody’s triangle. Who am I?
(M)
A. Pascal’s triangle
Q. I am a phenomenon of nature. I am usually associated
with waves, but you can also observe me using
microscopic particles. What I do depends on wavelength. I
cause a parallel light beam to spread out. I can help you
hear around corners. Who am I? (P)
A. Diffraction
Q. I am a solid, insoluble in water but soluble in ethanol
and other organic solvents. In spite of this, I am not an
organic compound. I was discovered in 1812. My melting
point is about 113°C but I’d rather sublime. My ethanolic
solution is a good antiseptic at home. I am a compound
element belonging to Group 7 of the Periodic Table. I am
told that my dark violet colour is beautiful. Who am I? (C)
A. Iodine/I2
Q. I am a class of organisms. The study of my
members is called batrachology. Though my members
typically have four limbs, some are noted for being
limbless. There is a dramatic decline in the population
of my members which is perceived as one of the most
critical threats to global biodiversity. My name
literally means life on both sides. My members are
superficially similar to reptiles. Some of my members
include the salamanders, toads, and frogs. Who am I?
(B)
A. Amphibia
Q. I was born in Warsaw in 1867. As a scientist, I
have many accomplishments—I won the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1911. My last name is associated with a law that
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describes how the properties of certain magnetic
materials vary with temperature. You probably best
know me for my work in radioactivity, for which I
shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with my husband
Pierre and another physicist. I was the first woman to
win the Nobel Prize and the only one to win in both
physics and chemistry. Who am I? (P)
A. Mme Marie Curie
Q. In a plane I am an ordered pair of numbers. In
space I am a triplet. In a plane I am associated with
points. The first number in the pair measures distance
from the y-axis and the second number measures
distance from the x-axis. With me, the origin in a
coordinate plane is given by (0, 0). Who am I? (M)
A. Coordinates (of a point)
Q. I am an organic compound made up of three
obvious elements. There are as many as 24 atoms in
my molecule. I have a sibling with an equal number of
atoms, but who is more stable than I am. We are both
reducing agents. My sibling is very sociable because
he is everywhere but his friends tell me I am sweeter.
We are both present in honey but I give honey its
sweetness. Who am I? (C)
A. Fructose
Q. You may be stronger and harder but not as malleable as
I am. There is no civilization that can do without me. I am
a solution normally made up of a solvent which is a
transition metal and a non-metal solute. My ductility
depends on how much of the solute is present. Despite my
strength I am extremely allergic to heat as I soften and
glow. If I was born at a piggery, then who am I? (C)
A. Steel
Q. I am a plant cell, with a large number of ribosomes and
mitochondria. I am more metabolically active than a
'typical' plant cell. My name is in two parts, the first
signifies a friend and the other represent the smallest unit
that displays properties of life. The survival of sieve-tube
members depends on a close association with me. In fact I
am a component of the phloem tissue that carries
photosynthetic products to all parts of the plant where
needed. Who am I? (B)
A. Companion cell
Q. I am a measure of a region or a geometric figure. I am
in the base-height business. My least unit of measure is a
square. For polygons such a s a triangle or rectangle I am a
base and height affair. For a circle I am obtained by
squaring the diameter. For a cylinder I am a product of
radius and height. My simplest unit is cm2. Who am I? (M)
A. Area
Q. I am an optical device. I can change the direction of
light. I cause light to spread out. I can cause an inverted
image to become erect. I am not a lens although you can
think of lenses as made up of me. My ability to deviate
light is used to determine the refractive index of optical
materials. Who am I? (P)
A. Triangular prism
Q. What I am is a mystery. No one yet knows how I
came to be, but I exist all the same. I am all around
you. You think of me when you think of matter. You
think of me when you think of inertia. I connect force
and acceleration. Who am I? (P)
A. Mass
Q. I am a type of reproduction in certain lower
organisms. I am also a convenient means for
transferring genetic material to a variety of targets.
But I am not limited to the biologists alone
In English grammar I am used to signify the
modification of a verb from its basic form. In
chemistry, I signify the way unsaturation is
manifested in a compound. In biochemistry I signify
the turning of substances into a hydrophilic state in
the body. In mathematics I produce the conjugate of a
surd. Who am I? (M)
A. Conjugation
Q. I am a gear with geometrical connections. For a
cone, I am a sector of a circle. For a cube, I am like a
cross. In a way I am the shell or outline of a
geometrical figure. In more practical terms I am used
to entrap aquatic creatures. Who am I? (M)
A. Net
Q. To the chemist, I am a white solid. To the botanist,
I am a tree with heart shaped leaves. To our mothers, I
am a fruit very useful in the home. I could also be a
drink, especially for those who love the cocktail. I am
obtained in commercial quantities simply by heating
some rock, a natural deposit. With water I undergo a
violent exothermic reaction. The product of this can
sometimes be used in place of white emulsion paint.
Who am I? (C)
A. Lime/CaO
Q. I could be a phenomenon; I could be a process. I could
also be associated with procreation. I am a force to reckon
with. I am not seen but like the wind, when I have an
encounter with any mass, you would feel my presence. I
am so versatile that I could transform myself into light
energy and others. I am a form of energy transferred from
one body to another body when there is a temperature
difference. Who am I?
A. Heat (energy) (P)
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Q. I am some kind of transformation in the plane. I map a
point into another point and in general I map a straight line
into a straight line. I am closely associated with matrices. I
am used in rotations and reflections but not in translations.
Since I map a straight line into another straight line, my
name suggests I am a transformation of a line. Who am I?
A. Linear Transformation (M)
Q. I am a phenomenon of nature. I am associated with
electricity. Because I am also associated with magnetism, I
am called electromagnetic. I have the power to convert
motion into electricity. Generators operate because of me.
Who am I? (P)
A. Electromagnetic induction
Q. I am a small reproductive structure usually consisting of
a single cell. My name in Greek means seed sowing. I am
capable of developing independently into a much larger,
mature and often multicellular body. Compared with seeds,
I have little food storage, and thus require more favourable
conditions in order to successfully germinate. I am
therefore produced in large numbers to increase my
chances of surviving. Fungi are often classified according
to the structures in which I am produced. Who am I?
A. Spore (B)
Q. I am an instrument. I have a cousin. We are often
used together, my cousin and I. I have a sock. My
cousin does not have a sock. I never give a higher
reading than my cousin. I give a lower reading than
my cousin does when the ambient air is dry. We give
the same reading when the ambient air is saturated
with water vapour. Who am I? (P)
A. Wet-bulb thermometer
Q. I am a form of reproduction. In cell biology, I
denote the breaking apart of cells or cell organelles
into smaller parts. As a process of reproduction, I do
not produce genetic diversity in the offspring. I am a
form of reproduction in many organisms such as
moulds, algae, liverworts and mosses. To the ecologist
I describe the emergence of discontinuities in an
organism's preferred environment (habitat). To the
chemist I am a type of chemical dissociation. To the
computer scientist, I am a phenomenon in which
storage space is used inefficiently, thereby reducing
storage capacity and in most cases the performance.
Who am I? (B)
A. Fragmentation
Q. I am associated with sets and I am some kind of
notation. My name suggests I am in the building
business. I am a way describing a set by stating a
property of the elements of the set. In a way I am a
builder of sets. Who am I? (M)
A. Set-builder notation
Q. Chemists keep on believing that I am only a
perception. If I were, how come I enable them to
describe structures so accurately? I am associated with
the homes in which electrons in an atom reside. Like a
good architect, I combine various shapes to come up
with composite shapes. If you have eyes for shapes,
you would notice that when I operate, the composite
shape has the characteristics of the contributing
shapes. If you know one and understand the way I
work, you could virtually describe the shape of any
complex molecule or ion. Who am I? (C)
A. Hybridization

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