Science Quiz #259
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Q1. According to John Aubrey in "Brief Lives", Sir Francis Bacon's death was caused after he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia after an experiment to do what?
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Q2. The Richter scale was used to measure the magnitude of what?
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Q3. The secretary bird is native to which continent?
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Q4. Which of these is a dog developed and bred solely in the former USSR by the state owned Red Star Kennel until 1957 for use as a military/working dog?
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Q5. 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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Q6. Which of these does not directly involve trigonometric functions or calculations?
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Q7. What is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, which is used as an extraction, cleaning and degreasing solvent, and as a solvent in aerosols, paints, wood preservatives, lacquers, varnishes, and asphalt products?
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