Science Quiz #581
Science and Nature Quiz for 4 March 2020
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Q1.
The lumbar region of the human body contains how many vertebrae?
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Q2.
What chemical element, a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal, was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, who named it after an asteroid ?
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Q3.
In 1979, a World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of which human infectious disease, the first (and only) one to be completely eradicated from nature?
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Q4.
What name is given to the death of tissue due to failure of the blood supply?
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Q5.
Which of these is a genus of armoured dinosaur with distinctive tail spikes and plates from the Late Jurassic period, once found in western North America and Europe?
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Q6.
What is pognophobia the fear of?
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Q7.
A "Wobbegong" is a type of what?
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