Science Quiz #478
Science and Nature Quiz for 14 March 2018
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Q1.
What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
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Q2.
What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
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The following were influential in developing which subject in China: Liu Hui, Zu Geng, Li Chunfeng, Yang Hui, Shen Kuo, Liu Xin, Zhang Heng, Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi and Wang Xiaotong?
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Q4.
What apple-like fruit containing pulp covered seeds with a golden-red rind is formed from (usually scarlet) flowers?
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Q5.
What colour is cochineal?
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Q6.
The name of what product, also known as paraffin, a combustible hydrocarbon liquid, was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854?
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Q7.
The Berkshire, Australian Yorkshire, Danish Landrace, Mulefoot, Wessex Saddleback and West French White are breeds of what?
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