Science and Nature Quiz for 15 April 2009
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1
What event affecting television will happen in the United States on 17 February 2009 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
A
Cessation of analog transmissions
B
Deregulation of broadcasting organisations
D
Legislation requiring broadcasts in ethnic languages
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2
What is a hereditary disease of the blood in males, characterised by excessive bleeding and lack of ability of the blood to clot?
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3
What is a navigation instrument used until the 18th century to measure the angles between heavenly bodies, or between them and the horizon?
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4
Which of these is not a species of Chipmunk?
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5
Which of these is a condition which, by depriving the body of oxygen, results in choking or suffocation?
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6
Of which species of plant found on the floors of east Asian forests from eastern India, Indochina, China and Japan have 93 species been formally described, and, it is speculated, there may be 200 to 300?
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7
What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
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