Science Quiz #134
Science and Nature Quiz for 10 August 2011
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Q1.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
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Q2.
Where would one find "Bachmann's bundle"?
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A book about set theory
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Q3.
About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
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Q4.
Phlebitis is a condition that affects what part of the body?
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Q5.
Which of these is a portable media player launched by Apple on October 23, 2001?
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Q6.
The "promession" technique, announced in May 2010, was proposed to be used for what?
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Q7.
What sign of the zodiac is represented by a goat?
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