Science Quiz #332
Science and Nature Quiz for 27 May 2015
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Q1.
All snowflakes are geometric figures with how many sides?
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Q2.
Which of these is not a fish?
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Q3.
When was observational evidence first accepted by the scientists of the time that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe?
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Q4.
In astrophysics and physical cosmology, what is Olbers's paradox, named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758-1840).
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The dark night sky paradox
B
The faint young Sun paradox
C
The paradoxical reaction of a comet's tail as it passes a star
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Q5.
What, if decreased, will lower the boiling point of water?
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Q6.
What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate?
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Q7.
What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
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