Science Quiz #146
Science and Nature Quiz for 2 November 2011
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Q1.
What was the name of the last of NASA's five space shuttles to be built?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
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Q2.
What is the only native venomous spider in New Zealand (that is native only to New Zealand)?
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Q3.
What name is given to the group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine?
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Q4.
What name is given to the list of all the accounts contained in the ledger of a business and their values, from which most financial reports are produced?
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Profit and loss account
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Q5.
What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?
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Q6.
Which of these bones is the lowest in the human body (when it is standing up!)?
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Q7.
What is used in fireworks and flares to give off a brilliant red light?
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