Science Quiz #337
Science and Nature Quiz for 1 July 2015
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Q1.
Which is a definition of hardwood?
A
Wood from the heart of a tree
B
Wood from gymnosperm trees
C
Wood from dicot angiosperm trees
D
Particularly dense timber
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Q2.
What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?
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Q3.
Which model of car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company was introduced in April 1964 and created the "pony car" class of American automobile?
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Q5.
What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
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Q6.
Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
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Q7.
The pericardium is part of which organ?
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