Science Quiz #88
Science and Nature Quiz for 22 September 2010
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Q1.
An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body?
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Q2.
A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what?
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The hardness of materials
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Q3.
What word means the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time?
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Q4.
Which of these is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass?
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Q5.
What shape are the 12 faces of a regular dodecahedron?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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Q6.
What name is given to a positive whole number that can only be divided by 1 or itself?
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Q7.
In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
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