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The easiest, least confrontational or controversial conversation starter is the weather. On this first day of the semester what better topic than these brain teasers supplied by Credo Reference. CTC Library subscribes to the over 570 reference books available through Credo

All these questions are about the weather, or things that have "weather" in their names.

1. What is a weather vane?
2. In which ocean does El Niño occur?
3. What is the difference between "weather" and "climate"?
4. What was the name of the jazz-rock group founded in 1971 by Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul?
5. In 1803, Luke Howard devised a classification of clouds into three primary types. Can you name two of these types?
6. The US terrorist group the Weathermen took their name from a line in a song by which writer?
7. What is measured by the Beaufort scale?
8. Is an anti-cyclone a region of high or low atmospheric pressure?
9. What is a "weather front"?
10. An anemometer is an instrument for measuring what?

Questions set by Tony Augarde (www.augardebooks.co.uk)

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