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| 1. | What element has the highest melting point? |
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Carbon | |
| 2. | Laying down the the foundation for classical mechanics, how many laws of motion were compiled by Isaac Newton in his 1687 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy? |
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Three | |
| 3. | In geometry, what term describes a triangle that has two sides of equal length? |
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Isosceles | |
| 4. | What chemical element has the symbol Ir? |
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Iridium | |
| 5. | Worldwide, what is the most common human blood type? |
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O-positive (around 38%) | |
| 6. | What acid is also known as vitamin B9? |
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Folic acid / Folate / Folacin | |
| 7. | The anterior (ACL) and posterior (PCL) cruciate ligaments are located in what part of the body? |
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Knee | |
| 8. | An assessment of human intelligence, what does the 'Q' in IQ stand for? |
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Quotient (intelligence quotient) | |
| 9. | What name is given to the female reproductive organs of a flower, comprising the stigma, style, and ovary? |
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Pistil | |
| 10. | What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for sulphur, uranium, niobium, astatine, and helium? |
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Sunbathe | |
| 11. | Readily identified as the "organ grinder", what 'C' describes this New World monkey? |
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Capuchin | |
| 12. | What 'M' describes the part of a cell that generates its chemical energy? |
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Mitochondria | |
| 13. | Yellowcake is a concentrate powder of what metal element? |
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Uranium | |
| 14. | What 'M' is the product of the mass and velocity of an object? |
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Momentum | |
| 15. | Lupine is to wolf as vulpine is to what? |
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Fox | |
| 16. | The largest member of the weasel family, what 'W' describes this creature? |
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Wolverine (also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch) | |
| 17. | What does a dendrologist study? |
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Wooded plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas) | |
| 18. | What substance is secreted from glands in the heads of worker bees and used to feed bee larvae and adult queens? |
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Royal Jelly | |
| 19. | What simple name is given to the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound? |
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Acoustics | |
| 20. | Every second the sun converts about 4 million tons of matter to energy by fusing approximately 600 million tons of hydrogen, in the process producing what chemical element? |
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Helium | |
| 21. | What single unit of metric measurement is equivalent to 61.0237441 cubic inches? |
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Litre / Liter | |
| 22. | What 6-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for tin, iodine, technetium, and hydrogen? |
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Snitch | |
| 23. | Chromatics is the science of what? |
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Colour | |
| 24. | Native to Australia, what type of animal is this? |
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Wombat | |
| 25. | Also used to describe part of the human body, what 'C' is the waxy part of a leaf? |
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Cuticle | |
| 26. | What is the correct medical term for the disease commonly known as German measles? |
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Rubella | |
| 27. | What organ of the body is affected by Bright's Disease? |
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Kidney | |
| 28. | Naphthalene is the original primary ingredient of what household product? |
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Mothballs | |
| 29. | The second cervical vertebra of the spine (C2), what 'A' describes this bone? |
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Axis | |
| 30. | When you swallow food, should it travel down your oesophagus or your trachea? |
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Esophagus / Oesophagus (the trachea is your windpipe) | |
| 31. | Introduced in 1973, what is measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale? |
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Hurricanes (in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line) | |
| 32. | What is produced by the parotid gland? |
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Saliva | |
| 33. | To what group of animals do Chuckwallas belong? |
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Lizard / Iguana | |
| 34. | How many pairs of ribs does a human have? |
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12 | |
| 35. | What 7-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Beryllium, Carbon, Gold, and Selenium? |
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Because | |
| 36. | Dame Jane Goodall is considered to be the world's foremost expert on what animal? |
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Chimpanzee | |
| 37. | A regular dodecahedron has twelve faces. What shape is each face? |
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Pentagonal | |
| 38. | What 'M' is the device that generates microwaves in a microwave oven? |
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Magnetron (Cavity magnetron) | |
| 39. | How many limbs does a lobster have? |
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10 | |
| 40. | What three initials describe the human form of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE)? |
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CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) | |
| 41. | What 'B' describes an instrument used for measuring atmospheric pressure? |
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Barometer | |
| 42. | What does a dipsomaniac have an uncontrollable craving for? |
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Alcohol | |
| 43. | What famous astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564? |
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Galileo Galilei | |
| 44. | Native to the Americas, what type of bird is a Muscovy? |
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Duck | |
| 45. | Who is credited with the invention of the modern hovercraft in the 1950s? |
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Christopher Cockerell | |
| 46. | To the nearest 1 percent, what percentage of air is nitrogen? |
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78 (78.084%) | |
| 47. | Boats "roll" when rotating about their longitudinal axis. What are the other two rotations called? |
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Pitch and Yaw | |
| 48. | In computing terminology, what does BIOS stand for? |
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Basic Input/Output System | |
| 49. | What 'R' is the name of the psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and analysed? |
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Rorschach (created by Hermann Rorschach in 1921) | |
| 50. | How many pecks are there in a bushel? |
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4 (1 bushel = 8 gallons dry volume) | |
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