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Q1. What word means walking using the whole sole of the foot?

A
Digitigrade
B
Facultative
C
Plantigrade
D
Ungulate
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Q2. What do the Harvard Plate Stacks hold?

A
A collection of 2,000 years of steles recording knowledge of astronomy at the time
B
A collection of geological shales
C
A century's worth of glass plate negatives of the night sky
D
A collection of two centuries of photographic portraiture in North America
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Q3. The following were influential in developing which subject in China: Liu Hui, Zu Geng, Li Chunfeng, Yang Hui, Shen Kuo, Liu Xin, Zhang Heng, Zu Chongzhi and Wang Xiaotong?

A
Medicine
B
Mathematics
C
Religion
D
Architecture
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Q4. Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?

A
Sewing machine
B
Microwave oven
C
Vacuum cleaner
D
Dishwasher
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Q5. What does the Euclid mission, launched by the European Space Agency in July 2023, aim to explore or to do?

A
To explore matter and radiation between stars
B
To shuttle astronauts to the International Space Ship
C
To explore dark matter and dark energy
D
To test a method of planetary defence against near-Earth objects
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Q6. Before the 21st century developments in AI, climate change and pandemics, traditionally accepted economic theory was broadly described as what?

A
Marxian
B
Keynesian
C
Platonic
D
Salamancan
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Q7. Bitumen is made to go onto or into what?

A
Ice cream
B
Roads
C
Feet
D
Garden plants
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