Science Quiz #263
Science and Nature Quiz for 29 January 2014
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Q1.
What process concerns the passage of food through the human body?
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2
Q2.
In the 3rd millennium BCE the Indus Valley civilisation was using distance measurements precise to a unit of what?
B
4.7 mm (approx. 1/5 inch)
C
2 cm (approx. 4/5 inch)
D
2.5 mm (approx. 1/10 inch)
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3
Q3.
What describes a variable signal that is continuous in time and amplitude, that can be seen as the opposite of "digital"?
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4
Q4.
What do anthropologists study?
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5
Q5.
Which of these animals has the longest average life span?
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Q6.
Which of these is the only vertebrate to have been discovered so far to have lungs but no windpipe (trachea)?
Note: This question was updated in May 2023
A
A brackish water fish called calamoichthys
B
A freshwater fish genus called polypterus
C
A freshwater fish called lungfish
D
A seawater fish called coelacanth
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Q7.
Which of these is a home video game console launched in 2006 by Nintendo that has a wireless controller for use as a handheld pointing device, and detects movement in three dimensions?
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