ANSWERS

1. Hybrid vehicle/car, such as the Toyota Prius.

2. Texaco (a reference to the lone star of Texas).

3. Malaysia (the Petronas towers have 88 floors, 451.9 m high - 1,482.6 feet high, to the top of the spire).

4. Norway.

5. Octane rating.

6. A Supanova.

7. Seacoal.

8. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

9. Rudolf Diesel - who else?

10. Ernest Rutherford.

11. Venezuela and Ecuador.

12. Olive oil.

13. Fusion.

14. Iran, China and Mexico. (Followed by Canada, UAE, Venezuela, Kuwait, Norway and Nigeria. Interestingly, Iraq comes in 15th place).

15. In order, starting with the biggest consumer: United States, China, Japan, Russia and Germany.

16. Exxon Valdez.

17. Water turbine (whilst being a student under Claude Burdin, who first coined the phrase Turbine).

18. BP or British Petroleum (In 1901, William Knox D'Arcy was granted a concession by the Shah of Iran to search for oil which he found in May 1908. This was the first commercially significant find in the Middle East. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated to exploit this. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company).

19. Biodiesel.

20. Mercedes Benz.