Friday Quiz Answers 05/09/2025

1. What scale is used to measure the intensity of tornadoes?
   Answer: Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale.

2. Which country holds the record for the highest officially recorded temperature on Earth?
   Answer: USA (Death Valley, California) – a sizzling 56.7°C in 1913.

3. What name is given to the line on a weather map that connects points of equal pressure?
   Answer: Isobar – those pressure lines on a weather map.

4. In the UK, what kind of weather condition is officially named by the Met Office when it poses a threat to life?
   Answer: A named storm (e.g., Storm Eunice) – issued by the Met Office.

5. What weather phenomenon causes a “double rainbow”?
   Answer: Light reflecting and refracting twice inside raindrops – hence the double rainbow.

6. What is the term for rain that freezes on contact with surfaces, forming a layer of ice?
   Answer: Freezing rain – turns everything into a skating rink!

7. What cloud type is most associated with thunderstorms?
   Answer: Cumulonimbus clouds – the towering thunderstorm makers.

8. What colourful-sounding jet stream occurs near the equator?
   Answer: The Equatorial Jet (sometimes called the Tropical Easterly Jet) – a colourful-sounding stream.

9. In folklore, what is said to happen when there's a "red sky at night"?
   Answer: “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight” – it usually means good weather is coming.

10. Which planet in our solar system experiences the most extreme weather, including 1,000 mph winds?
    Answer: Neptune – wild 1,000+ mph winds.

Bright Source Bonus Question

Q. What does the term "IP rating" on a lighting product stand for, and what does it measure?
Answer: IP rating stands for Ingress Protection rating.
It measures how well a lighting product is protected against solid objects (like dust) and liquids (like water).