Loaded Questions 11/17/22 - Science
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Hope you’ve been having a good week! Eleven questions about science since next week might be a tryptophan-heavy week. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
1. Also called the gastrointestinal tract, what is the tube that begins at the mouth and ends at the anus?
2. Named for a genus named for a Greek goddess, what group of drugs are used to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize for?
3. In 1939, what Raytheon employee noticed that a candy bar had melted in his pocket, thus inventing the microwave oven?
4. The spleen is made up of red and white what?
5. What are the only externally-shelled members of Cephalopoda?
6. What Austrian physicist (1880-1933) names the paradox for special relativity, formulated in terms of a rigid rotating disc for which the circumference contracts but the radius does not?
7. What word follows "diabetes" in the name of the disorder? Its root comes from the Latin for honey.
8. What star in the southern constellation Carina is the second-brightest star in the night sky, after Sirius?
9. Sensors and actuators are examples of what type of device, which covert energy from one form to another?
10. What element, #114, is named for the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research found in Dubna, Russia?
11. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is often trasmitted by a type of tick named for what other animal?
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1. Also called the gastrointestinal tract, what is the tube that begins at the mouth and ends at the anus?
Alimentary canal
2. Named for a genus named for a Greek goddess, what group of drugs are used to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize for?
Artemisinins
3. In 1939, what Raytheon employee noticed that a candy bar had melted in his pocket, thus inventing the microwave oven?
Percy Spencer
4. The spleen is made up of red and white what?
Pulp
5. What are the only externally-shelled members of Cephalopoda?
Nautilus
6. What Austrian physicist (1880-1933) names the paradox for special relativity, formulated in terms of a rigid rotating disc for which the circumference contracts but the radius does not?
Paul Ehrenfest
7. What word follows "diabetes" in the name of the disorder? Its root comes from the Latin for honey.
Diabetes mellitus
8. What star in the southern constellation Carina is the second-brightest star in the night sky, after Sirius?
Canopus
9. Sensors and actuators are examples of what type of device, which covert energy from one form to another?
Transducer
10. What element, #114, is named for the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research found in Dubna, Russia?
Flerovium
11. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is often trasmitted by a type of tick named for what other animal?
Dog tick