Science Quiz #708
Science and Nature Quiz for 10 August 2022
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Q1.
What word is used to mean the dead skin at the base of a fingernail?
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Q2.
Apart from in zoos and breeding centres, where is the endangered pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, mostly found?
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Q3.
The small Atlas mountain viper (Vipera monticola) is native, and unique, to where?
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Q4.
What is the first on the list if these words are sorted based on the penultimate letter of each word?
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Q5.
What is a mosquito-borne virus, also known as breakbone fever, that is an acute febrile disease which occurs widely in the tropics, in Asia, South America, Australia and the Pacific and is now endemic in more than 100 countries?
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Kyasanur forest disease
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Q6.
Which is an example of a parallelepiped?
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Q7.
What is the name for the gaseous region of a star which emits light and which extends into a star's surface until the gas becomes opaque?
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