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Science Quiz #829

Science and Nature Quiz for 4 December 2024

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Q1. Which of these is a dog breed originating in Yorkshire, England, sometimes used in England as a police dog, that is also called the Waterside Terrier, and was called the "King of Terriers" because it was the largest of the terrier breeds (before the creation of the Black Russian Terrier)?

A
Airedale
B
Clydesdale
C
Wensleydale
D
Homedale
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Q2. The school of thought known as diffusionism is a study in which field?

A
Chemistry
B
Anthropology
C
Oceanography
D
Cuisine
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Q3. The function of the human lymphatic system includes stimulating immune response, taking white blood cells to and from bones, removing interstitial fluid from tissues and what else?

A
Regulating the body's excretory system
B
Generating white blood cells
C
Absorbing and transporting fatty acids and fats from the digestive system
D
Mitigating extreme nerve responses
Select from the options above.

Q4. What are marram, fescue, and rye?

A
Types of grass
B
Beers
C
Ceramic designs
D
Frogs
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Q5. Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the prize for, among other things, determining the chemical structure of what in 1945?

A
DNA
B
Benzene
C
Penicillin
D
Vitamin B12
Select from the options above.

Q6. The fraction of the total incident solar radiation reflected by a planet back to space would be measured as its what?

A
Bond albedo
B
Lambertian reflectance
C
Reflectivity
D
BRDF
Select from the options above.

Q7. Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage in a perpendicular magnetic field, causing them to spiral and encounter the accelerating voltage many times?

A
Centrifuge
B
Cyclotron
C
Gravimeter
D
Accelerometer
Select from the options above.
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