Science Quiz #273
Science and Nature Quiz for 9 April 2014
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Q1.
In which part of the body would you find the bone called the trapezium?
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Q2.
The Angus, Australian Lowline, Blue Albion, Florida Cracker, Hereford, Romagnola, Tasmanian Grey and Whitebred Shorthorn are all types of what?
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Q3.
What does a CD player use to read a CD?
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Q4.
What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
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Q5.
What are "chiroptera"?
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Q6.
What are Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic and Antimony?
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Q7.
What star is closest to the Earth?
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