Science Quiz #158
Science and Nature Quiz for 25 January 2012
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Q1.
Which of these numbers is closest to the number of hours in a leap year?
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Q2.
The "loop of Henle" is found where in the human body?
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Q3.
How many months are there in a century?
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Q4.
What name was given to the number 10 to the power of 100 (i.e. 1 followed by one hundred zeros) by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner?
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Q5.
Which of these was designed by Reginald Mitchell?
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The British Mark I tank
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Q6.
What is a group of jellyfish called?
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Q7.
What name is give to a tax minimisation deal whereby a profitable company makes a payment to a loss-making company in the same group?
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