Science Quiz #578
Science and Nature Quiz for 12 February 2020
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Q1.
What distance from earth does one have to get to qualify for NASA's definition of an astronaut?
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Q2.
The juvenile form of crane flies are called what?
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Q3.
What vitamin is retinol?
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Q4.
Which of these is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of (usually white) blood cells?
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Q5.
Symptoms of what disease include fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, anaemia, hemoglobinuria, retinal damage, and convulsions, with cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigour, fever and sweating?
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Q6.
After what or whom are the two classes of elementary particles named?
C
Two physicists (one Indian, one Italian)
D
The research centres where they were discovered
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Q7.
The common choko is what colour when ripe?
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