Science Quiz #404
Science and Nature Quiz for 12 October 2016
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Q1.
What Three Laws were formulated by Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s?
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Q2.
As a crude population measure of obesity, what value of body mass index is considered to show obesity?
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Q3.
Who uses a petri dish?
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Q4.
What machine was invented by Professor Auguste Picard for scientific exploration?
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Q5.
A billion in short scale is 1 followed by 9 zeroes. What is it in long scale?
A
1 followed by 12 zeroes
B
1 followed by 10 zeroes
C
1 followed by 18 zeroes
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Q6.
What was the name of George Stephenson's first steam engine, which first ran on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway in 1830?
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B
Stray forceps after an operation
C
Matter grown round a mass of cotton or sponge left behind in a body cavity after an operation
D
A type of natural or organic yoga clothing
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