Science Quiz #374
Science and Nature Quiz for 16 March 2016
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Q1.
What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
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Q2.
Granite is an example of what sort of rock?
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Q3.
Pi, a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is the same value as what other ratio?
A
GDP to GNP in a balanced economy
B
The hypotenuse to the sum of the other sides
C
The sum of the sides of a dodecahedron to one side
D
A circle's area to the square of its radius
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Q4.
What word is used to describe the situation where blood has pooled at the lowest point of a dead body?
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Q5.
Which of these is a disease affecting poultry?
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Q6.
What is the freezing point of water, in degrees?
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Q7.
Auditory refers to which of the senses?
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