Science Quiz #350
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Q1. Development of the iron lung with which Drinker and Shaw's names are associated, and which was used to aid polio victims, was first funded by which body?
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Q2. Which one of these flightless birds would be most likely to be tall enough to be able to walk over the others?
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Q3. In 2003 the unmanned Galileo spacecraft's mission was terminated how?
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Q4. The root of the word "carotid", as used for arteries carrying blood to the head, is the Greek for what?
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Q5. In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1,091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea?
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Q6. Ground-breaking research into American sexual habits was made by which couple?
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Q7. Which medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal, native to Africa, is the sole representative of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?
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