Science Quiz #537
Science and Nature Quiz for 1 May 2019
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Q1.
What is a cantaloupe?
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Q2.
Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
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Q3.
Which of these is a type of cow?
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Q4.
Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
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Q5.
What is the common name for "lentigo"?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
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Q6.
What is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to Canada, much of the United States, and parts of northern Mexico that constructs homes out of sticks, twigs, and mud in lakes or streams?
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Q7.
What is the common name for Herpes Zoster?
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