Science Quiz #218
Science and Nature Quiz for 20 March 2013
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Q1.
In 1846, using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe which planet?
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Q2.
Castoreum, which comes from a beaver, is used as an ingredient in what?
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Q3.
What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
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Q4.
What is a lemniscate?
Note: This question was updated in February 2021
C
The mathematical symbol for infinity
D
A pair of green-coloured roller blades
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Q5.
Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Janský and William Moss worked on the classification of what?
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Q6.
What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others?
B
Von Neumann's examination of mixed strategy equilibria
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Q7.
What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s?
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