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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?

A
Typhus
B
Typhoid fever
C
Measles
D
Whooping cough
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Q2. What is a mathematical term for "one quarter"?

A
Fraction
B
Integer
C
Logarithm
D
Numerator
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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Healthy tissue has been replaced by scar tissue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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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?

A
Freiburg
B
Köln
C
Bonn
D
Marburg
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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?

A
Mt Eiger, Switzerland
B
Huka Falls, New Zealand
C
Kakadu National Park, Australia
D
The Grand Canyon, USA
Select from the options above.
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Q6. What is a state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, cancelling each other out?

A
Stasis
B
Monotony
C
Blandness
D
Statuesque
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Q7. Which of these does not directly involve trigonometric functions or calculations?

A
Accurate mapping
B
Fourier analysis
C
Relationship between triangle sides and angles, and cyclical phenomena
D
Lénárt Sphere
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