Science Quiz #479
Science and Nature Quiz for 21 March 2018
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Q1.
Carcinoma is a type of what?
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Q2.
Which of these was viewed as an antidote to poison, and a general panacea?
A
Theriaca, or Venice Treacle
B
A mixture of mercury, sulphur and arsenic
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Q3.
Where is Grissom Hill?
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Q4.
The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was stereo-typical of milliners making felt hats, who used what chemical to separate the fur from the pelt and matt it together?
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Q5.
What branch of biology, dating from the discovery of blood corpuscles by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, classifies and describes the development of the forms of living organisms?
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Q6.
What is the principal diet of the osprey?
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Q7.
What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
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