School Competition

Competition Answers

1. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

"I'm wearing a garment called a Cushma and my question is what do Peruvian women make this Cushma out of, what do they use to make it and what is it made from."

Cotton

2. NEIL HAYDOCK

"I'm the executive chef for Fifteen Cornwall, we've been making chocolate tart with 70% chocolate and my question to you is the famous explorer that first bought chocolate to Europe."

Christopher Colombus

3. GILLIAN KAY

"I work for the Met Office. I'm a climate impact scientist and I try to understand how our climate might change in the future and how that could affect things like our rainforests. My question for your today is, how much of the global fresh water is produced by rainforests, is it 2%, 5% or 20%?"

20%

4. LORRAINE MILLER

"I'm a keeper here at Paignton Zoo, I'm with our Brazilian Tapirs, Mischa and Ryan. They spend most of their time in the water and have prehensile noses but what does prehensile mean?"

Adapted to grasp or hold objects

5. DAN RYAN

"I'm a biologist at the Eden project. I'm standing inside our rainforest biome and what I want to know is which bit of the cocoa tree is turned into chocolate?"

Seed or bean

6. BENJAMIN MEE

"I'm the director of Dartmoor Zoological Park. Our cat Sovereign is the third largest big cat in the world and for my money he's one of the scariest animals we've got, even though we've got lions and tigers and bears and wolves. My question is who has the strongest bite of all the big cats. Is it the lion, a tiger, a cheetah or a jaguar."