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| 1. | What 'M' describes this type of monkey? |
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Mandrill | |
| 2. | What 'A' is the most commonly used family of rockets launched by the European Space Agency? |
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Ariane | |
| 3. | What type of animal is a brown booby? |
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Bird | |
| 4. | What is a more common name for the medical term nocturnal enuresis? |
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Bedwetting | |
| 5. | Where, exactly, on the human body is the columella? |
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Nose (the fleshy external end of the nasal septum) | |
| 6. | What 6-letter word can be made using the chemical symbols for Tin, Iodine, Phosphorus, and Erbium? |
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Sniper | |
| 7. | Named after a French physicist, what 'C' is the fundamental unit of electric charge? |
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Coulomb | |
| 8. | How is the medical condition dyspepsia better known? |
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Indigestion or upset stomach | |
| 9. | What does this laundry care symbol mean? |
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Do not bleach | |
| 10. | What 'R' is a viral disease historically called Hydrophobia? |
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Rabies | |
| 11. | How many microseconds are there in one second? |
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1 million | |
| 12. | Sn is the chemical symbol for what metal element? |
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Tin (Latin: stannum) | |
| 13. | Would a strong acid have a pH value nearer to 0 or 14? |
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0 | |
| 14. | What is the SI derived unit of electric potential and electromotive force? |
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Volt | |
| 15. | What 'N' is the medical term for a chronic sleep disorder characterised by an excessive urge to sleep at inappropriate times? |
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Narcolepsy | |
| 16. | First defined in 1913 by radiochemist Frederick Soddy, what 'I' describes variants of a chemical element with the same proton number, but different neutron number? |
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Isotopes | |
| 17. | The world's highest-production dairy animals, what breed of cattle is this? |
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Holstein Friesian (often shortened as Friesians in Europe, and Holsteins in North America) | |
| 18. | How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 20? |
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4 (11,13,17,19) | |
| 19. | Native to North Africa and Gibraltar, and the only population of wild monkeys in Europe, what type of macaque is this? |
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Barbary macaque / Barbary ape / Magot | |
| 20. | At 20 °C, sound travels through air at how many metres per second? [±10] |
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343 | |
| 21. | What is the name of the world's first "test tube baby", born on 25th July 1978 in Oldham, England? |
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Louise Brown | |
| 22. | What type of creature is a cockchafer? |
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Beetle | |
| 23. | Deuteranopia, tritanopia, and protanopia are three forms of what medical condition? |
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Colour blindness (Colour vision deficiency) | |
| 24. | The essential clotting protein found in blood is called Factor what? |
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8 / VIII | |
| 25. | What 5-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Tungsten, Silver, and Erbium? |
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Wager | |
| 26. | Horology is the study and measurement of what? |
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Time (from Greek ὥρα hṓra "hour; time") | |
| 27. | What Greek scholar reportedly proclaimed "Eureka!" when he stepped into a bath and noticed the displacement of water? |
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Archimedes | |
| 28. | In reference to aircraft such as the Harrier Jump Jet, what does VTOL stand for? |
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Vertical Take-Off and Landing | |
| 29. | Originally from northern China, and noted for its characteristic blue-black tongue, what is the name of this dog breed? |
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Chow Chow | |
| 30. | Using higher temperatures than soldering, what 'B' describes a metal-joining process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint, without melting the work pieces? |
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Brazing | |
| 31. | What name is given to a positively charged ion? |
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Cation (an ion with fewer electrons than protons, giving it a positive charge) | |
| 32. | How many objects in our solar system are larger than the Earth? |
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5 (Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) | |
| 33. | If you leave hospital with gossypiboma, what went wrong? |
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Something was accidentally left inside a your body during surgery (from the Latin gossypium (“cotton wool, cotton”) and the suffix -oma, meaning a tumour or growth) | |
| 34. | In the International System of Units (SI), what is the unit of frequency? |
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Hertz | |
| 35. | What is the only species of penguin that lives north of the equator? |
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Galápagos | |
| 36. | What is the chemical symbol for the element named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus? |
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Cn (Copernicium) | |
| 37. | What is the common name for the chemical compound NH3? |
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Ammonia / Azane | |
| 38. | What 'D' is the medical term for any substance that promotes the increased production of urine? |
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Diuretic | |
| 39. | What is the acute angle between the hands of a clock at half past three? |
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75° (acute < 90° / obtuse > 90° and < 180° / reflex > 180° and < 360°) | |
| 40. | Mycology is the study of what? |
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Fungi (from the Greek μύκης, meaning "fungus") | |
| 41. | What 'V' describes the science, production and study of grapes? |
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Viticulture / Viniculture | |
| 42. | What is the chemical symbol for Titanium? |
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Ti | |
| 43. | What large animal can be White, Black, Indian, Javan, or Sumatran? |
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Rhinoceros | |
| 44. | Having been kept as pets by drug lord Pablo Escobar until his death in 1993; what native African mammal escaped captivity in 2009 and is now an invasive wild species in Columbia? |
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Hippopotamus | |
| 45. | What single unit of measure equals one-millionth of a metre or one-thousandth of a millimetre? |
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Micron (also Micrometre/Micrometer) | |
| 46. | What 5-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Tungsten, Arsenic and Tellurium? |
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Waste | |
| 47. | What 'D' describes a medical device used to apply electric shocks to restore the rhythm of an irregular heartbeat? |
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Defibrillator | |
| 48. | Native to Madagascar, what is this animal called? |
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Aye-aye | |
| 49. | What colour does litmus paper turn when immersed in a solution below pH 4.5? |
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Red (acidic) | |
| 50. | How many bones are there in an adult human hand? |
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27 | |
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