Science Quiz #508
Science and Nature Quiz for 10 October 2018
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Q1.
What is or are the mandible(s)?
B
Sand used for creating a religious symbol
C
Tool for peeling citrus fruit
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Q2.
What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted?
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Q3.
Although it had a number of variably practical predecessors what was invented, and is still in use, in 1913?
Note: This question was updated in February 2019
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Q4.
What is the next in the series H, He, Li, Be, B ...?
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Q5.
The yellow-brown South American fruit maracuya is more widely known in Europe and Australasia as what?
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Q6.
What do the pika who live on the high dry cold Tibetan plains most closely resemble?
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Q7.
Jiggers, or chigoe or sand fleas (Tunga penetrans), are a small parasite found mostly where on the body?
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