Science Quiz #108
Science and Nature Quiz for 9 February 2011
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Q1.
What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
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Q2.
What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
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Q3.
Where did the car manufacturer Saab originate?
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Q4.
What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
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Q5.
The name of what product, also known as paraffin, a combustible hydrocarbon liquid, was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854?
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Q6.
The Belgian Blue, British White, Canadian Speckle Park, Galloway, Lincoln Red, South Devon, Welsh Black and White Park are all types of what?
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Q7.
What is the dividend of 22 divided by 7?
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