Science Quiz #675
Science and Nature Quiz for 22 December 2021
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Q1.
Where would you NOT find Fourier transforms being used directly?
B
Reconstructing a crystal structure from its diffraction pattern
D
Equalising audio recordings
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Q2.
Which plant genus, with species ranging from low deciduous shrubs to evergreen trees up to 18 m (59 ft) tall and native to areas of Eurasia and Africa, flowers prolifically with dense pink spikes?
A
Ceiba (silk floss tree)
D
Tamarix (tamarisk or salt cedar)
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Q3.
What name is given to the neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs?
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Q4.
The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Günther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown?
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Q5.
What is the name for a natural satellite that orbits a planet?
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Q6.
What is a Russian Blue?
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Q7.
What is the engineering term for the slope of a structure, slightly out of the vertical?
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