Science Quiz #521
Science and Nature Quiz for 9 January 2019
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Q1.
What is the sum of 2 + 2 squared + 2 cubed + 2 to the power of 4 - 2 to the power of 5?
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Q2.
What is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes, that were named in 1735 by Carolus Linnaeus?
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Q3.
Which of these was not one of the first three countries to receive an internationalised country code top-level domain (i.e. that employs a non Latin alphabet) in the Internet Domain Name System?
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Q4.
About how long does it take for the moon to make one orbit of the Earth?
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Q5.
Which is (very) slightly acid forming?
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B
Crewman stationed at the rear of a ship
C
Term applied by British lawyers to unsympathetic judges
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Q7.
Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where?
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