Science Quiz #509
Science and Nature Quiz for 17 October 2018
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Q1.
Which of these is another word for the thumb?
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Q2.
Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s?
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Q3.
What are setts, lodges, nides and forms?
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Q4.
The spacecraft Cassini in the 20-year joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission was crash landed where in September 2017?
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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Q5.
If in a right angle triangle the lengths of the two sides including the right angle are 27 and 120 units long, how many units is the third side?
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Q6.
The electrically neutral particle known as a neutrino has three forms which partner with similar but charged particles. Which is NOT one of those charged particles?
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Q7.
Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebrae?
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