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| What is the lightest metal? |
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| What chemical element has the atomic number 18? |
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| Which element has the highest melting point? |
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| Carbon (3,527 degrees centigrade) |
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| What is the most common gas in the earth's atmosphere? |
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| Pb is the symbol for which chemical element? |
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| Lead (derived from the Latin 'plumbum', from which the word plumber also derives - because the first plumbers used lead for pipes, etc.) |
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| What element is mixed with Iron to make cast iron? |
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| What is the chemical symbol for diamond? |
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| P is the symbol for which chemical element? |
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| What is ascorbic acid commonly known as? |
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| Trinitrotoluene is better known as what? |
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| TNT (the chemical explosive) |
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| Which common chemical element has the atomic number 20? |
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| Calcium (Calcium is a silvery soft metal with the chemical symbol Ca) |
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| Deoxyribonucleic acid is commonly known as what? |
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| What is the common name for solid carbon dioxide? |
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| What commonly occurring gas has the chemical formula CH4 ? |
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| What does PVC (the plastic) stand for? |
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| Who discovered and opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922? |
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| Howard Carter (English archaeologist and Egyptologist, 1874-1939) |
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| What American explorer is generally regarded as the first to reach The North Pole in 1909? |
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| What did Tim Berners Lee invent? |
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| The Internet (or the World Wide Web) |
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| Who invented the mercury thermometer? |
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| Who invented the thermometer in 1593? |
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| What scientist and inventor was responsible for the Decibel unit of measurement? |
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| Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922, inventor of the telephone in 1876 - incidentally, a decibel is one tenth of a bell) |
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| Who was the 'father of medicine' to whom a code of medical ethics is attributed and which bears his name? |
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| Hippocrates (Hippocrates, c.460-370BC, is regarded first to have defined the principles of the Hippocratic Oath, hence its name.) |
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| Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing? |
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| Who was the first pilot to break the sound barrier? |
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| Who invented the first traffic light? |
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| Who invented the microwave? |
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| What is the Fahrenheit boiling point of water? |
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| How many miles per second does light travel? |
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| What is the unit of measurement of wind speed? |
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| What number does 'storm' equate to on the Beaufort Scale of wind force? |
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| What number is a hurricaine on the Beaufort Scale? |
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| How many sides does a rhombus have? |
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| What does the c stand for in the equation E=mc2 ? |
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| The speed of light (in a vacuum, i.e., 299,792,458 metres per second, or 300,000km/sec or 186,000miles/sec) |
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| What is the fourth root of 81? |
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| What is the white of an egg called? |
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| What type of cloud is normally associated with thunderstorms? |
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| What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin set sail on his voyage around the world in 1831? |
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| How many bones are in the human skull? |
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| In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as? |
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| A human-being has how many pairs of chromosomes? |
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| What is the technical term for the collar bone? |
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| In the human body what is the Axilla commonly known as? |
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| An orchidectomy is the surgical removal of what? |
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| What is the largest gland in the human body? |
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| In anatomy what is the technical term for the kneecap? |
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| What is the medical term for the shoulder blade? |
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| In anatomy what is the outer layer of the skin called? |
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| Where in the human body is the thyroid gland? |
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| In which part of the human body would you find the talus? |
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| Which acid is produced in the muscles during strenuous exercise? |
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| Metachrosis is the ability of some animals to do what? |
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| What is a baby oyster called? |
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| What type of animal comes from the caprine family? |
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| Australia’s most dangerous spider? |
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| The Red Back spider (similar to the black widow) |
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| What is the collective name for a group of peacocks? |
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| Where do hydrophytic plants grow? |
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| The pistil is the reproductive organ of what? |
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| How old is a horse when it changes from a filly to a mare? |
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| If a creature is 'opodous', what has is not got? |
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| If a creature is edentulous what has it not got? |
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| How many teeth does an elephant have? |
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| How many tentacles does a squid have? |
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| If cats are feline, what are sheep? |
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| The llama belongs to the family of animals commonly called what? |
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| What is the alternative common name for a Black Leopard? |
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| What is the projecting piece of a sundial called which shows the time by its shadow? |
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| Constellation ‘Crux’ is better known as what? |
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| What percentage of mammals are monogamous? |
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What is the oldest, largest
High IQ society? |
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93 million miles
or in scientific terms 1 AU = average distance sun to earth |
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What is the rarest
blood type? |
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In which part of the
body would you find
the ulna bone? |
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What type of hair is
the fastest growing hair
on the human body? |
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What type of hair is
the fastest growing hair
on the human body? |
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What’s the female
version of tomcat? |
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| What type of insects are emeralds, darts, hawkers, clubtails, and skimmers? |
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| What did John Pemberton invent in 1886? |
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What kind of animal
lives in a warren? |
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Substances that conduct
very little electricity
is called what? |
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| Generally what color are sapphires? |
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| When did NASA’s Apollo 11 land on the moon? |
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| How long does it take for the suns light to reach earth? |
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| What does ADHD stand for? |
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Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder |
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| What gland regulates metabolism? |
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| What year was the 1st space shuttle launch? Shuttle name? |
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What gives green plants
their color? |
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What are the hill(top) and
Valley(bottom) of a wave called? |
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Hill – crest
Valley - trough |
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What element has the
chemical symbol I? |
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What bodily substance is
also known by the
name ‘cerumen’? |
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| What is a group of bears called? |
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| What is the name given to a person who shoes horses? |
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| What is the circumference of the Earth? |
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| What is a more common term for a person who is ‘Myopic’? |
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| What part of the body would you find the ulna bone? |
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| Name for the old-fashioned bike with a large wheel in front and a smaller on in the rear? |
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Penny-farthing
Aka – High Wheeler or
Ordinary |
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| Mg is the symbol of which chemical element: |
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| A monorchid has one what? |
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| Who invented the first electric telegraph in 1837? |
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| Who started the American Red Cross? - |
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| How many space shuttles are there? And name them? |
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| 6 Shuttles. Enterprise(never went to space), Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor |
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| How many Shuttle accidents? And name the Shuttles? |
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| 2 accidents. Challenger – 1986 launch Columbia – 2003 re-entry |
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| In scientific terms, 'Pulmonary' refers to what organ? - |
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| What scale is used to classify wind strength? - |
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| Beaufort Scale. Devised by Francis Beaufort in 1805 |
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| How many noble gases are there? Name them? - |
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| 6 Noble gases. Helium(He), Neon(Ne), Argon(Ar), Krypton(Kr), Xenon(Xe), Radon(Rn) |
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| What Atmospheric layer do we live in? - |
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| Who invented penicillin? - |
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| In which time period did the dinosaurs mainly live? - |
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| How much money is in a Monopoly game? - |
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| What is the term used for the fear of the number 13? |
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| What is the line called dividing the light and dark portions of the Moon? - |
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| What type of animal has a breed called Charbray? - |
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| Most common blood type? - |
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| What gemstone melts in vinegar? |
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| What is the Fahrenheit boiling point of water? |
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| What number does 'storm' equate to on the Beaufort Scale of wind force? |
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| How many miles per second does light travel? |
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| How many yards are in a furlong? |
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| Launched in 1960, what was the name of the first US communications satellite? |
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| What is the name of the space station first launched by the Soviet Union in 1986? |
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| What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957? |
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| What Apollo 13 astronaut contacted Mission Control with the words, "Houston, we've had a problem here.." ? |
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| What was the name and call-sign of the Apollo Eleven lunar module? |
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| Who was the first person in space? |
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| Yuri Gagarin (in Vostok 1, on 12th April 1961) |
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| How many astronauts have walked on the moon? |
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| The NASA spacecraft Messenger reached what planet destination in 2008? |
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| What type of animal has a breed called Charbray? - |
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| What gemstone melts in vinegar? |
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| What is the name of our nearest galaxy? |
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| Andromeda (2.5m light-years way) |
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| Which is the hottest planet in our solar system (based on generally accepted average surface temperatures)? |
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| Venus (Mercury is closest to the sun and is subject to the highest irradiation from the Sun, but Venus, due to its cloud cover and atmospheric density has a hotter 'mean' temperature than Mercury, and is generally regarded as the hottest planet in our solar system) |
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| According to today’s definition of a planet, which is the smallest planet in the solar system? |
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| Mercury (Pluto is no longer defined as a planet) |
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| Titan and Ganymeade are what in our Solar System? |
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| Moons (of Saturn and Jupiter) |
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| What planet takes 248 years to orbit the sun? – |
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| What is the line called dividing the light and dark portions of the Moon? - |
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| What ‘word’ does K stand for in the CMYK colour model used in printing? |
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| Key (Usually black, so called from the key printing plate, used to outline or contrast in the images created with the other colours: cyan - blue, magenta - pinkish red, and yellow.) |
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| What is a line on a map called which connects points of equal temperature? |
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| What is the line called on a ship which is the limit to which it may be loaded? |
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| Plimsoll line (aka International load line - it was brought into force in 1876 by coal merchant and politician Samuel Plimsoll.) |
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| What is the name of the largest and oldest high-IQ society? |
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| What does a vexillogist study? |
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| Dendrology is the scientific study of what? |
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| Entomology is the study of which creatures? |
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| What does an onomast study? |
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| What is Oenology the study of? |
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| What does the c stand for in the equation E=mc2 ? |
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| The speed of light (in a vacuum, i.e., 299,792,458 metres per second, or 300,000km/sec or 186,000miles/sec) |
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| How many sides does a rhombus have? |
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| What is the fourth root of 81? |
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| What does AM & FM stand for in regards to radio? |
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AM - Amplitude Modulation
FM - Frequency Modulation |
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