Science Quiz #279
Science and Nature Quiz for 21 May 2014
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1
Which Apollo mission brought the first rocks and other material from the Moon?
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2
B
The thing that hangs down the back of your throat
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3
Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
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4
Which of these affects the eyes?
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5
What is one description of a lunar eclipse?
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6
Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
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7
Which of these is a type of vegetable?
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