Science Quiz #27
Science and Nature Quiz for 22 July 2009
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1
The fur ermine comes from which animal?
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2
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3
What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
Note: This question was updated in September 2015
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4
What is a more common name for the umbilicus?
A
Loose skin at the back of the throat
D
Sweat gland under the arm
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5
What term is applied to an animal or plant produced by crossing two different varieties?
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6
Which of these words is another name for a nose bleed?
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7
What can be defined as "the resistance to motion when two bodies in contact are moved away from each other"?
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