Science Quiz #6
Science and Nature Quiz for 25 February 2009
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Q1.
Making a U-turn results in a change of direction of how many degrees?
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Q2.
What is the name for a nutritional disease caused by a lack of vitamin c?
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Q3.
What was believed to be a hemisphere above the ground, carrying the fixed stars and surrounding the seven spheres of the planets, through which the Sun and Moon moved in and out through a series of openings?
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Q4.
What word best describes a triangle where all sides are different lengths?
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Q5.
What is the common name for a soft dull greenish brown or grey variety of clay that falls to a powder in water?
Note: This question was updated in March 2015
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Q6.
What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
Note: This question was updated in May 2015
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Q7.
What instrument was designed to measure variations in temperature by the expansion or contraction of a liquid or gas?
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