Science Quiz #716
Science and Nature Quiz for 5 October 2022
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Q1.
Which of these, normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odour, contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to foodstuffs and fertilisers?
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Q2.
What attaches muscles to bone?
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Q4.
Who won the 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry for their work in the 1960s & 1970s to find ways to bond carbon atoms (such as palladium-catalysed cross coupling)?
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James D. Watson, Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins
B
Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood
C
Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi & Akira Suzuki
D
Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant & John Bonham
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Q5.
in 1853 while working on the synthesis and properties of various acid anhydrides, French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt made acetylsalicylic acid by mixing acetyl chloride with a sodium salt of salicylic acid (sodium salicylate). He called the resulting compound "salicylic-acetic anhydride". What was this preparation later marketed as?
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Q6.
Which of these foods is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids?
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Q7.
Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
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