Science Quiz #52
Science and Nature Quiz for 13 January 2010
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Q1.
Which planet weighs more than all the other planets of our solar system combined?
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Q2.
What ampihibia are native to Europe and Asia, with 4 fingers and five toes, one species of which ejects a white poisonous fluid from the glands in the skin?
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Q3.
What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
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Q4.
Which of these is an instrument in the diagnosis of certain heart disorders?
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Q5.
How many metatarsal bones are in each human foot?
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Q6.
From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
Note: This question was updated in January 2018
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Q7.
Which of these animals cannot retract its claws fully?
Note: This question was updated in November 2016
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