Science Quiz #502
Science and Nature Quiz for 29 August 2018
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Q1.
What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
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Q2.
If the two sides of a right-angled triangle which enclose the right angle are 3 and 4 units long respectively, what is the length of the other side?
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Q3.
Which small male marine animal incubates its eggs on the underside of its tail?
C
Seadragons and seahorses
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Q4.
Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
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Q5.
What name is given to a young lion?
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Q6.
What animal makes its home in a "drey"?
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Q7.
When Joseph Priestley isolated "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, what did he see as the phlogiston which he had removed from the air?
A
Particles of burnt matter
B
The constituent or principle in every burnable substance which enabled it to burn
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