Science Quiz #457
Science and Nature Quiz for 18 October 2017
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1
What is a description of the process of frying an egg?
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2
German measles, characterised by a rash, malaise, headache, fever and conjunctivitis, is otherwise known as what?
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3
What colour is a male Eurasian blackbird's beak?
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4
Which of these is the chief constituent of bronze?
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5
What is the name of the principle that "if two explanations account equally well for a particular phenomenon, the one to be chosen is the one with the fewer assumptions"?
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6
To which areas is the Magellanic woodpecker native?
B
Chilean Andes, Tierra del Fuego, south-western Argentina
D
The Moluccas, or "Spice Islands"
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