Science Quiz #192
Science and Nature Quiz for 19 September 2012
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Q1.
What is the name for a squirrel's nest?
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Q2.
The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature?
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Q3.
What name is given to sympathetic pregnancy?
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Q4.
Which of these is the name for a group of magpies?
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Q5.
What is the largest species of whale?
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Q6.
What device, invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and obsolete by 1975 with the introduction of devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor, converts alternating current to direct current by means of putting electricity through vapor?
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Manganese current exchanger
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Q7.
Which of these is not a flatfish?
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