Science Quiz #124
Science and Nature Quiz for 1 June 2011
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Q1.
Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
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Q2.
What is the difference between the sum of the prime numbers between 0 and 10 and the product of those numbers?
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Q3.
What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and describes the development of the forms of living organisms?
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Q4.
A lodestone or loadstone is a piece of the mineral magnetite which has what property?
B
It is naturally magnetised
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Q5.
Which of these is a chemical released by one or more cells that affects cells in other parts of the organism, only a small amount of which is needed to alter cell metabolism that, in animals, are often transported in the blood?
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Q6.
According to tradition, elephants have good what?
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Q7.
John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?
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