Science Quiz #488
Science and Nature Quiz for 23 May 2018
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Q1.
The first formal, patented, human use of sound to echo-locate under water was in relation to detecting what?
B
Submarines in World War I
D
Finding schools of fish
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2
Q2.
The ratio of the input voltage to the output voltage of a transformer is directly proportional to what?
A
The size of the container that it is in
B
The number of turns in the windings of the input and output coils
C
The humidity at the time
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3
Q3.
The sun is mostly made up of what material?
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4
A
An early stockmarket system
B
A remotely operated toaster
C
The first satellite to observe earth weather patterns from space
D
The first in a series of robot-made sculptures
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5
Q5.
Which of these is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy?
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6
Q6.
In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed?
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7
Q7.
What is the dividend of 22 divided by 7?
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