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| 1. | What 'R' describes an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC)? |
| 2. | How is the medical condition dyspepsia better known? |
| 3. | What name is given to the 800+ species of crab who've adapted to scavanging empty shells to protect their soft exoskeleton? |
| 4. | Which of the 8 major planets in our solar system comes third alphabetically? |
| 5. | What is a more common name for the complicated medical term "Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"? |
| 6. | What 'P' describes an artificial device that replaces a missing body part? |
| 7. | What name is given to a straight line that touches a curve but does not pass through it? |
| 8. | What is the only moon in our solar system known to have a dense atmosphere? |
| 9. | The disease scurvy is caused by a deficiency of what? |
| 10. | Fulminology is the scientific study of what naturally occurring phenomena? |
| 11. | What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for rhenium, cerium, nitrogen, thallium, and yttrium? |
| 12. | A group of gases banned in the late 1970s because of their impact on the ozone layer, what is CFC an abbreviation of? |
| 13. | What 5-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Sulphur, Protactinium, and Rhenium? |
| 14. | Which of the 8 major planets in our solar system comes fourth alphabetically? |
| 15. | A silkworm's preferred food are white ______ leaves. (fill in the blank) |
| 16. | What 'P' describes several different carnivorous plants with modified leaves known as pitfall traps? |
| 17. | What word is used to describe an infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to a human? |
| 18. | What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for indium, selenium, copper, and rhenium? |
| 19. | What planet in our solar system orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days? |
| 20. | Which scientist was dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"? |
| 21. | What is the name of the world's first "test tube baby", born on 25th July 1978 in Oldham, England? |
| 22. | What does a dipsomaniac have an uncontrollable craving for? |
| 23. | What chemical element was historically called brimstone? |
| 24. | Endemic to Africa and largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot, what 'S' describes this bird of prey? |
| 25. | Found across Afro-Eurasia, and notable for its distinctive "crown" of feathers, what 'H' describes this bird? |
| 26. | What process is being described in this equation? CO2 + H2O + photons → [CH2O] + O2 |
| 27. | Composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners, what 'T' describes this shape? |
| 28. | How many feet are there in a fathom? |
| 29. | What type of animal can be ringed, bearded, hooded, spotted, and ribbon? |
| 30. | From what continent do Guinea Pigs originate? |
| 31. | What highly contagious disease is caused by infection with the varicella zoster virus? |
| 32. | How many wings does a bee have? |
| 33. | What is the only native marsupial to be found north of Mexico in North America? |
| 34. | What animal's name is Afrikaans for "earth pig"? |
| 35. | What is the SI unit of electrical resistance, and what symbol is used to represent it? |
| 36. | Rigel, Betelgeuse and Bellatrix are the brightest stars of what constellation? |
| 37. | From what type of tree is nearly all the world's natural cork obtained? |
| 38. | A set of internationally open standards for television, what does DVB stand for? |
| 39. | What English inventor (1937-2018) is best known for the wind-up radio? |
| 40. | To what family of amphibians do mudpuppies belong? |
| 41. | What is the common term for a female ass or donkey? |
| 42. | What 'C' describes a timepiece tested and certified to meet certain precision standards? |
| 43. | One of the most valuable raw materials in perfumery, what 'A' describes the solid waxy substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales? |
| 44. | What 'P' describes rocks composed solely or primarily of volcanic materials? |
| 45. | In computing, what does PDF stand for? |
| 46. | Native to Europe and parts of Asia, and named after the yellow tuft on its head, what small bird is this? |
| 47. | Rhinotillexis is the medical term for what bad habit? |
| 48. | What planet in our solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? |
| 49. | Rickets is often caused by a lack of what vitamin, preventing the body absorbing or depositing calcium? |
| 50. | Salicylic acid, one of the ingredients of Aspirin, can be obtained from the inner bark of what tree? |
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