Science Quiz #707
Science and Nature Quiz for 3 August 2022
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Q1.
Which infectious disease is characterised by ulceration and inflammation of the bowel with generalised toxaemia and "wasting", usually caused via infection of food contaminated by flies?
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2
Q2.
What is a mathematical term for "one quarter"?
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3
Q3.
Cirrhosis is the name for what change in the liver?
A
The bile ducts have become inflamed and swollen
B
Healthy tissue has been replaced by scar tissue
C
Blood supply is reduced
D
An over-supply of blood
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4
Q4.
A potentially fatal haemorrhagic fever from a virus associated with Rousettus bat colonies was first detected in 1967 in simultaneous outbreaks in Belgrade in Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and Frankfurt, and where else in Germany?
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Q5.
Where would you go to see exposed one of the most complete sequences of rock anywhere, representing a period of nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history?
B
Huka Falls, New Zealand
C
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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6
Q6.
What is a state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, cancelling each other out?
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Q7.
Which of these does not directly involve trigonometric functions or calculations?
C
Relationship between triangle sides and angles, and cyclical phenomena
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