Loaded Questions 3/24/22 - Science
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1. About half the mass of the asteroid belt consists of just four bodies: Ceres, the largest and the only dwarf planet in the group, and what three other asteroids?
2. What programming language first created in 1987 is named for an object mentioned in Matthew 13:46?
3. Discovered by Marguerite Perey in 1939 who purified samples of lanthanum that contained actinium, what element with atomic number 87 was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered?
4. Diverse phyla began to rapidly appear in what event starting 542 million years ago, which may have been caused by a "methane burp" and is named for the first period of the Paleozoic Era?
5. What do the letters DSM stand for in DSM-5?
6. What name is given to an ideal vapor power cycle (possibly more practical than the Carnot cycle) used for steam power installations, and also the fourth-most common temperature scale, equal to Fahrenheit minus 459.67 degrees?
7. A lowercase form of which Greek letter is the symbol for the photon?
8. What anticoagulant is secreted from leeches, which is why leeches were used to reduce clotting back in the non-science days?
9. While humans have XY sex-determination chromosomes, birds and butterflies have a sex-determination system named for what two letters?
10. In fluid dynamics, there are two words that describe smooth flow and rough flow, which can act independently of the viscosity?
11. Containing magnesium and corundum, what mineral variety similar to rubies but does not contain chromium? The Black Prince's Ruby of the Crown Jewels is actually this mineral.
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1. About half the mass of the asteroid belt consists of just four bodies: Ceres, the largest and the only dwarf planet in the group, and what three other asteroids? Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea
2. What programming language first created in 1987 is named for an object mentioned in Matthew 13:46? Perl
3. Discovered by Marguerite Perey in 1939 who purified samples of lanthanum that contained actinium, what element with atomic number 87 was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered? Francium
4. Diverse phyla began to rapidly appear in what event starting 542 million years ago, which may have been caused by a "methane burp" and is named for the first period of the Paleozoic Era? Cambrian explosion
5. What do the letters DSM stand for in DSM-5? Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (of Mental Disorders)
6. What name is given to an ideal vapor power cycle (possibly more practical than the Carnot cycle) used for steam power installations, and also the fourth-most common temperature scale, equal to Fahrenheit minus 459.67 degrees? Rankine
7. A lowercase form of which Greek letter is the symbol for the photon? Gamma / γ
8. What anticoagulant is secreted from leeches, which is why leeches were used to reduce clotting back in the non-science days? Hirudin
9. While humans have XY sex-determination chromosomes, birds and butterflies have a sex-determination system named for what two letters? ZW
10. In fluid dynamics, there are two words that describe smooth flow and rough flow, which can act independently of the viscosity? Laminar flow, turbulent flow
11. Containing magnesium and corundum, what mineral variety similar to rubies but does not contain chromium? The Black Prince's Ruby of the Crown Jewels is actually this mineral. Spinel