Science Quiz #50
Science and Nature Quiz for 30 December 2009
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Q1.
What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
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Q2.
What is the more common name for methylenedioxymethamphetamine?
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Q3.
Where in the body is the scapula?
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Q4.
Which of these birds can fly?
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Q5.
What is the next number in the sequence 0; 4; 36; 1,444?
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Q6.
What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square inches?
Note: This question was updated in May 2016
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Q7.
What was the name of the two spacecraft that photographed the planet Saturn in 1980 and 1981?
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