Science Quiz #83
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Q1. A United Nations report published in July 2007 placed which country first in the industrialised world in marijuana use, at 16.8% of the population?
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Q2. Which of these is a rodent?
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Q3. What bodily process breaks food down into nutrients?
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Q4. Which of these is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin B1, characterised by inflammation of the peripheral nerves with subsequent paralysis, dropsy and heart failure?
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Q5. In 2009, when it was suggested that doctors in the state of Queensland, Australia, were losing patients due to their shifts of 80 hours per week, what did Queensland health officials suggest that doctors do about it?
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Q6. What name is given to the liability of members of certain families or races to suffer from certain diseases?
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Q7. What was the principle laid down in Adam Smith's "Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" published in 1776?
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