Science Quiz #13
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Q1. What event affecting television happened in the United States on 8 September 2008 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
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Q2. 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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Q3. 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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Q4. Which of these is not a species of Chipmunk?
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Q5. Which of these is a condition which, by depriving the body of oxygen, results in choking or suffocation?
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Q6. 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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Q7. What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
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