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november autumn browns

The seasons have ticked over and now we are well and truly into Autumn we thought we'd celebrate that most autumnal of colours, brown.

It gets about, does brown, as you'll see from the ten questions below, but one of its most popular manifestations is of course chocolate, which is why we've chosen it for your prize!

20 lucky (well, clever) winners will receive a tooth decaying plethora of the stuff to cheer them up through the long evenings ahead.

Chocs away!


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01
 Which green chemical in tree leaves disappears in autumn and allows the brown, orange and red colours to become visable?
Chlorophyll
Polyfill
Grant'n'Phil

02
 Which of these is not a type of trout?
Brown trout
Rainbow trout
Golden-furred trout

03
 Which is the brown wire in an electrical plug?
Live
Neutral
Earth

04
 What is absent from white chocolate which stops it being brown?
There are no cocoa solids in it
There is no milk in it
There is no sugar in it

05
 Which of these is a brown gas?
Iron
Oxygen
Bromine

06
 What is rust?
Iron oxide
Sodium chloride
Sodium bicarbonate

07
 Botanist Robert Brown discovered that pollen grains move around randomly in water. Einstein used this as the final evidence that atoms existed. What is the random motion called?
Einsteinian motion
Brownian motion
Atomian motion

08
 How long will a brown bear generally live for in the wild?
5 years
30 years
160 years

09
 What is a brown dwarf?
The Pilot Episode of Red Dwarf
A failed star - one without enough hydrogen fuel to burn effectively
The core of any Earth-like planet

10
 Why do cut apples turn brown in the air?
An enzyme is released from the cut apple cells which reacts oxygen with other chemicals in the fruit turning it brown.
Brown juice from the core seeps out turning the whole fruit brown.
A fungus is released from the pips and this covers the fruit in a brown fungus layer.

Answers

1= Chlorophyll • 2= Golden-furred trout • 3= Live • 4= There are no cocoa solids in it • 5= Bromine • 6= Iron Oxide • 7= Brownian Motion • 8= 30 years • 9= A failed star • 10= An enzyme is released from cut apple cells...


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