Science Quiz #551
Science and Nature Quiz for 7 August 2019
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Q1.
Which tuber of the nightshade family was cultivated by the Incas, was taken to Spain from Peru in the 16th century and to Ireland from Virginia in the 16th century?
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Q2.
What are the South American yapok, Condor caenolestid, and monito del monte?
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Q3.
What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?
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Q4.
In the human body which has more nerve endings?
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Q5.
What is the next in the series 1, 4, 25, 676?
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Q6.
In 1960 an international agreement defined the metre in terms of the wavelength of the light from which gas, when burnt?
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Q7.
Which of these is a medical term for coughing up blood, associated with lung and heart disease?
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