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| 1. | What is the medical term for the largest bone in the human body? |
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Femur (thigh bone) | |
| 2. | An engineered wood product, what does MDF stand for? |
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Medium-Density Fibreboard | |
| 3. | What 'D' is used to describe the nest of a tree squirrel or flying squirrel? |
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Dray / Drey | |
| 4. | What is the main diet of xylophagous insects? |
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Wood | |
| 5. | What boy's name is also the SI derived unit of electrical inductance? |
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Henry | |
| 6. | What is the chemical symbol for Arsenic? |
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As (Ar is the symbol for Argon) | |
| 7. | More than any other letter of the alphabet, twelve chemical symbols in the periodic table begin with what letter? |
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C (C, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cf, Cl, Cm, Cn, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu) | |
| 8. | What type of animal is a California sheephead? |
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Fish | |
| 9. | What person is the result of multiplying Alessandro Volta by André-Marie Ampère? |
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James Watt (volts x amps = watts) | |
| 10. | In 1982, Barney Clark became the first human recipient of an artificial what? |
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Heart | |
| 11. | What is the name of the scale that classifies wind speed based on observed conditions on sea or land. |
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Beaufort Scale | |
| 12. | In the human body, cerumen is a substance produced by the ceruminous glands. By what name is it better known? |
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Earwax | |
| 13. | Nitrogen and Oxygen make up 99% of the Earth's atmosphere. At 0.934%, what is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere? |
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Argon (followed by carbon dioxide at 0.04%) | |
| 14. | In what century was Sir Isaac Newton born? |
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17th (1643) | |
| 15. | What is the name of the cartilage in the nose that separates the nostrils? |
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Septum | |
| 16. | Chinese for "sand skin", what breed of dog is this? |
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Shar-Pei (Cantonese: shā pèih or Mandarin: 沙皮 shā pí) | |
| 17. | What type of tree is the most common source of resin distilled to produce turpentine? |
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Pine | |
| 18. | What does this laundry care symbol mean? |
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Do not bleach | |
| 19. | How is the number 9 represented in the octal numeral system? |
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11 | |
| 20. | What is the most commonly used name for a compound with the chemical formula H2O2? |
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Hydrogen Peroxide | |
| 21. | The force that makes hurricanes rotate in different directions on either side of the Equator is is known as the ______ effect? (fill in the blank) |
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Coriolis | |
| 22. | What is the name given to young geese? |
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Goslings | |
| 23. | How many pounds are there in a long (US) or imperial (UK) hundredweight? |
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112 (a short hundredweight or cental is 100 pounds) | |
| 24. | When the acronym EHF is used to describe the Ebola disease, what does the 'H' stand for? |
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Hemorrhagic (Ebola hemorrhagic fever) | |
| 25. | What 'H' describes an organism with both male and female reproductive organs? |
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Hermaphrodite | |
| 26. | What is the second planet from the Sun? |
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Venus | |
| 27. | To one decimal place, in m/s2, what is the acceleration of objects under the influence of Earth's gravity? |
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9.8 (9.80665 m/s2) | |
| 28. | What is a more common name for the medical term myopia? |
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Near/Short-sightedness | |
| 29. | Iron disulfide (FeS2) or iron pyrite is a brass-yellow mineral with a bright metallic luster. By what other name is it well known? |
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Fool's gold | |
| 30. | Native to the deserts of North Africa, what 'F' describes this species of fox? |
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Fennec (Vulpes zerda) | |
| 31. | To what organ of the body is the gallbladder attached? |
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Liver | |
| 32. | What 'W' describes the loose red fold of skin that hangs from the neck of a rooster? |
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Wattle | |
| 33. | The SETI Institute's mission is to "explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe". What does SETI stand for? |
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence | |
| 34. | What term is used to describe the result of dividing mass by volume? |
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Density | |
| 35. | What is the main constituent of Nickel silver? |
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Copper (usually 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc) | |
| 36. | What colour head does a male Mallard have? |
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Green | |
| 37. | What 'D' is used to describe indehiscent fleshy fruits with a central stone containing the seed? |
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Drupe | |
| 38. | Hyperopia is a medical term for what? |
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Far-sightedness / Longsightedness (Myopia is nearsightedness / shortsightedness) | |
| 39. | What is the atomic number of Oxygen? |
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8 | |
| 40. | What 'C' is an adjective applied to any disorder you are born with? |
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Congenital | |
| 41. | What large object in our solar system was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory, Arizona in February 1930? |
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Pluto | |
| 42. | After the femur, what is the next largest bone in the human body? |
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Tibia (Shinbone) | |
| 43. | The most common form of anaemia is caused by a deficiency of what? |
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Iron | |
| 44. | In computing, what two-letter abbreviation is the SI unit representing one billion bytes? |
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GB (Gigabyte) | |
| 45. | In arithmetic and number theory, what does LCM stand for? |
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Least/Lowest common multiple | |
| 46. | What is the medical term for the breastbone? |
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Sternum | |
| 47. | What 'W' describes the intermediate phase when the Moon's apparent size is increasing from new moon toward full moon? |
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Waxing (Waning when the size is apparently decreasing) | |
| 48. | What single unit of metric measurement is equivalent to 61.0237441 cubic inches? |
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Litre / Liter | |
| 49. | Sometimes called a "living fossil", what name is given to this rare species of deep-sea shark? |
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Goblin shark | |
| 50. | What disease gets its name from the Latin word for crab? |
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Cancer | |
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