Science and Nature Quiz for 11 March 2009
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1
What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
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2
What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
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3
What is another name for ultra-violet light?
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4
What is the name of the widely accepted model for the formation and evolution of the Solar System, first developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace?
A
Gravitational collapse exposition
C
Giant molecular cloud theory
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5
What was the name of the enterprise, directed by J Robert Oppenheimer, to develop the first US nuclear weapon?
C
The Brooklyn Experiment
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6
Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
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7
The pericardium is part of which organ?
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