Science Quiz #555
Science and Nature Quiz for 4 September 2019
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Q1.
What does an anthropologist study?
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Q2.
Macular degeneration affects what part of the body?
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Q3.
Historically, lead poisoning was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions?
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Q4.
Where does kapok, use for stuffing mattresses and cushions, come from?
B
Birds (It is down, from particular birds )
C
It is mined, only in South America
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Q5.
Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?
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Q6.
What name is given to the earth's crust?
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Q7.
What kind of animal is a Turkish Van?
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