Science Quiz #711
Science and Nature Quiz for 31 August 2022
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Q1.
A constellation whose three main bright stars are called, sometimes, the Three Maries, the Three Kings, or Hap (mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep), was known in Scandinavia as Freyja's distaff and now more generally as what?
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Q2.
The abacus was designed as a what?
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Q3.
The American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, is an endangered member of a family of insects which unusually for beetles do what?
B
Lay their eggs in a bubble with a toxic coating
C
Care, as a pair, for the young from the egg until the larvae are mature
D
Live permanently under water
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Q4.
What is a unit of spatial measurement that is 10 to the power of -9 of a meter, or one billionth of a meter?
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Q5.
What shape are the 4 faces of a tetrahedron?
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Q6.
The "venae cavae" are found in what part of the body?
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Q7.
Where is Husband Hill?
A
Near Hammersmith, London, England
C
Near Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA
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