Science Quiz #260
Science and Nature Quiz for 8 January 2014
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Q1.
Which of these, normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odour, contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to foodstuffs and fertilisers?
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Q2.
What term was coined by publisher Henry Holt to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy, such as distorting or moving an object and influencing the output of a random number generator?
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Q3.
A drake is the adult male of which bird?
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Q4.
The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
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Q5.
What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
A
Bi-Sexagesimal System B
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Q6.
Which of these is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly pine trees?
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Q7.
Which of Galileo's achievements brought him into conflict with the church, resulting in his being confined to his house for the last years of his life?
A
He attempted to measure the speed of light
B
He invented the thermometer
C
He said that the Copernican view of the universe was correct
D
He attempted to measure the weight of air
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