Science Quiz #735
Science and Nature Quiz for 15 February 2023
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Q1.
How many bones are there in the human backbone, including the five that are fused to form the sacrum and the coccyx?
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Q2.
What is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behaviour of materials at those temperatures?
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Q3.
What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
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Q4.
Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
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Q5.
How far away from Earth is the nearest star which is approximately the same size as the Sun?
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Q6.
Steel is made mainly of iron, but although the alloy can include other elements like nickel, molybdenum, manganese, titanium, boron, cobalt, or vanadium, what element must it also have in order to be steel?
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Q7.
What are "Phragmites australis"?
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A species of African mammal
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Islands off the coast of Australia
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