Q 01/05

Honey is sweet mainly because of high concentrations of which two sugars?

A) Fructose and glucose

B) Sucrose and lactose

C) Maltose and sucrose

D) Lactose and galactose

Answer · why

A) Fructose and glucose

Fructose and glucose make up 85-95% of honey's sugars, because enzymes the bees add split the sucrose in nectar into those two simpler sugars.

Q 02/05

Besides floral nectar, honey bees also make honey from the sugary secretions of which insects?

A) Ants

B) Aphids

C) Butterflies

D) Termites

Answer · why

B) Aphids

Aphids and other sap-sucking insects excrete a sugary liquid called honeydew, and ants prize it so much that they guard aphid herds from predators and...

Q 03/05

What shape are the cells of a honeycomb?

A) Octagonal

B) Triangular

C) Hexagonal

D) Square

Answer · why

C) Hexagonal

Hexagonal cells tile with no gaps and need the least wall for the space they enclose, an ancient hunch that mathematician Thomas Hales finally proved ...

Q 04/05

Properly stored honey resists spoiling mainly because of which two properties?

A) High wax content and low oxygen

B) High protein content and thickness

C) High salt content and alkalinity

D) High sugar concentration and acidity

Answer · why

D) High sugar concentration and acidity

High sugar concentration and acidity do it: with under 20% water, honey pulls moisture out of microbes by osmosis, and a pH of roughly 3.2 to 4.5 stop...

Q 05/05

Cuevas de la Araña, whose prehistoric rock art shows a figure raiding a wild bees' nest, is in which country?

A) Spain

B) Mexico

C) Peru

D) Argentina

Answer · why

A) Spain

Spain's rock shelters near Bicorp, Valencia, hold the scene, found in 1920; it was long dated to about 8,000 years ago, though some researchers now ar...