The team comprised of the captain Joseph Meagher (a Politics postgraduate), Gareth Aubrey (who is studying for a Masters in Physics), Chris Holmes (a Material Science undergraduate) and Adrian Anslow (a Maths undergraduate).
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But we’d like to know if a regular Mancunian could have been any help to them? So here are some of the questions that they faced. See how you do… Your starters for ten - Born in Huddersfield in 1963, which poet is noted for collections such as ‘Zoom!’, ‘Xanadu’ and ‘Cloud Cuckooland’ and for the novel ‘Little Green Man’? - “Those Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do” is a mnemonic for what scale, used in materials science? - What four letters link a commercial aphorism suggesting that narrow margins maximise turn-over, with the inscription on both the man-hole covers of present-day Rome and the military standard of ancient Rome? - What number is produced if the following are multiplied together: the atomic number of lithium, the number of noble gases and the number of halogens? Your bonus questions Three questions on museums: - In which Cornish town is the National Maritime Museum located on Discovery Quays, overlooking Carrick Roads?
- In which Scottish city is the Discovery Museum, also on Discovery Quay, including the ship on which Scott sailed to the Antarctic in 1901?
- In which English city does another Discovery Museum contain Turbania, the world’s first steam-turbine-driven ship, which was in 1897 the fastest vessel in the world? Three questions on a household product: - Born in Minnesota in 1920, Edward Lowe made his fortune from the invention and marketing of what absorbent household product, which he made from granulated Fuller’s earth?
- Developed by the biochemist Thomas Nelson, what name is given to cat litter made from granulated bentonite clay which, when wet, forms a solid mass separate from the other litter in the box?
- Diatomaceous earth, the main ingredient of a further type of cat litter, is primarily composed of which chemical, with the formula SiO2? | 
