Science Quiz #620
Science and Nature Quiz for 2 December 2020
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Q1.
What vitamin is thiamine?
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Q2.
An aster is a type of what?
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Q3.
Mescaline comes from what plant?
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Q4.
What was the life expectancy of someone who contracted the bubonic plague, the most commonly seen form during the Black Death that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, which had a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent?
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Q5.
Which of these is a perennial thistle originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean, the flowers of which develop in a large head from an edible bud?
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Q6.
Which of these is not a type of newt found in Britain?
Note: This question was updated in September 2023
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Q7.
Marie Curie named which element in homage to her homeland?
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