Science Quiz #514
Science and Nature Quiz for 21 November 2018
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Q1.
What name is given to the syndrome which involves a delusion that the affected person can transform or has transformed into an animal?
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2
Q2.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
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Q3.
Hearing sound when no external sound is present, possibly a ringing, clicking, hiss, sizzle or roar, is described as what?
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Q4.
Animals which are ovoviviparous, such as some vipers and other snakes, frogs, toads, iguanas and lizards, sharks, and fish, do what?
A
Lay non-fertile eggs for their developing young to eat
B
Hatch their young in eggs inside their body and give birth to them live
C
Guard their eggs until hatched
D
Hatch their young in pouches
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Q5.
Who or what lives in a vespiary?
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Q6.
What is one of the functions of flavonoids?
A
Assisting plant roots to grow
B
Determining intensity of flavour in wine
C
Producing yellow or red/blue pigmentation in flower petals
D
Assisting photosynthesis
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Q7.
What is the term for the joints between the bones of the cranium?
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