Science Quiz #260
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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 term was coined by publisher Henry Holt to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy, such as distorting or moving an object and influencing the output of a random number generator?
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Q3. A drake is the adult male of which bird?
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Q4. The left and right ventricles and the left and right atriums are found where in the human body?
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Q5. What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
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Q6. Which of these is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly pine trees?
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Q7. Which of Galileo's achievements brought him into conflict with the church, resulting in his being confined to his house for the last years of his life?
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