Science Quiz #611
Science and Nature Quiz for 30 September 2020
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Q1.
What type of growth is a potato?
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Q2.
The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year?
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Q3.
Where is the pituitary gland situated?
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Q4.
Which of these was an American astronomer?
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Q5.
Which common and stable isotope is the standard against which the atomic weights of all other elements are measured?
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Q6.
What name is given to the concept that an animal hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare?
A
Infinite monkey theorem
D
The Concept of Literary Accident
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Q7.
What does it mean for an insect to be polyphagous?
A
It has a wide variety of foods
D
It has multiple almost transparent scales
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