Science Quiz #295
Science and Nature Quiz for 10 September 2014
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Q1.
Entomology is the study of what?
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Q2.
What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor?
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Q3.
Which of these is not a member of the onion family?
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Q4.
How many legs has an arachnid?
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Q5.
Which of these is a technical word for blood poisoning?
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Q6.
Fossilised remains of a member of which extinct paleolithic race with heavy brow ridges and receding forehead were discovered in 1856?
Note: This question was updated in October 2017
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Q7.
What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on?
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Carbon dioxide and water
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