Science Quiz #121
Science and Nature Quiz for 11 May 2011
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Q1.
Burning methane in the presence of oxygen produces water and what gas?
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Q2.
What number do you get if you add all of the 7 Roman numerals?
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Q3.
What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab?
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Q4.
What equipment puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying a force perpendicular to the axis, and uses the sedimentation principle to cause heavier particles to move out along the radius?
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Q5.
Which of these is a type of camera lens?
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Q6.
What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960?
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Q7.
After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
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