Science Quiz #798
Science and Nature Quiz for 1 May 2024
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Q1.
Which is a method for calculating the height of a geological feature?
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Q2.
"Aegrotocatellus jaggeri", an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom?
D
A native American tribe from the Florida coast
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Q3.
A study at the University of Portsmouth, England, by astrophysicist Dr Or Graur traces a relationship in human thought between the Milky Way and what?
B
Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
C
The ride of the Valkyries in Scandinavian mythology
D
The role of the Goddess Nut in Egyptian mythology
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Q4.
Fossilised remains of a member of which extinct paleolithic race with heavy brow ridges and receding forehead were discovered in 1856?
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Q5.
When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P)?
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A
The union of polo horsemen
C
Use of radar pulses to create an image of land subsurface
D
Gaelic language teaching
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Q7.
A swallowtail is a type of what?
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