Science Quiz #287
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Q1. On 30 August 2012 NASA launched Radiation Belt Storm probes to look at the two doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts of high energy particles encircling the Earth. Three days after the launch they discovered what?
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Q2. In 1960 an international agreement defined the metre in terms of the wavelength of the light from which gas, when burnt?
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Q3. Why, during World War I, were some munition workers nicknamed "canary girls" or simply "canaries"?
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Q4. Which of these is the greatest angle?
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Q5. A study of bacterial DNA through the 1960s and 1970s isolated and identified a new branch of the tree of life many of whose members live in places extremely hostile to other forms of life. What is it called?
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Q6. In October 2010 it was announced that the longest genome (genetic code) of any organism belonged to what?
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Q7. Gynophobia is an abnormal fear of what?
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