Science Quiz #586
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1
What did the 1975 Viking programme aim to do?
A
Resurrect ancient Scandinavian languages
B
Salvage the Swedish warship, Vasa
C
Study the Scandinavian origins in depth of areas in Estonia, the Ukraine and Sicily
D
Observe the planet Mars, in orbit and on the surface
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2
A set square is designed to be used in which of these?
B
Engineering and technical drawing
D
Creating Christmas decorations
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3
In a paper published in "Physical Review Letters" in 1964, British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs proposed a theory in physics. What was it?
A
A mechanism for an all-pervasive energy field which interacts with its environment to give mass
B
Force-carrying particles in the electroweak force
C
A theory of molecular vibrations
D
Mechanism in the formation of topological defects
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4
What has been seen as one of the intermediate vectors of the coronavirus, Covid-19, which appeared in 2020?
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5
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in what year?
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6
The "phylloxera epidemic" affects what?
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7
For what is the RSA algorithm used?
A
To determine delivery of content on social media, based on calculated preferences
C
To calculate a fixed-size bit string value from a data file
D
Multimodal optimisation
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