Loaded Questions 9/19/22 - Science
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A brand new week! Hope you are doing well this fine Monday, and hopefully fall weather is coming where you are. Here in Columbia, the high on Thursday is 97 degrees, so HOPEFULLY it’ll be autumnal after that. Enjoy some science questions!
1. How many legs does a woodlouse have? This is also the atomic number of silicon.
2. Equal to 6.626*10^-34 Joule-seconds, Planck's constant is equivalent to the energy of a photon divided by what?
3. Named for a Scottish physician, what type of facial paralysis where patients cannot control facial muscles on the affected side can stem from symptoms of Lyme disease and varicella zoster virus? Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien suffered from this condition.
4. A deviation from Raoult's Law, what substances cannot be broken down by simple distillation? Water can form one of these with ethanol, nitric acid, or hydrochloric acid.
5. From the Latin for "light-bringer", what generic term is used for compounds found in organisms that have bioluminescence?
6. The polysaccharides amylose and amylopectin are the two components of what?
7. What eight-letter word is used to describe a year which is the orbital period of Earth, and is the time scale that is base don Earth's rate of rotation measured relative to the fixed stars?
8. Computer scientist Alonzo Church created a system of computability theory that is Turing complete and is a form of "calculus" named for what Greek letter?
9. The most common type of hernia is what variety, about 66% of all hernias, and is named after the canals in the anterior abdominal wall where they persist?
10. Called the zunzuncito in its native home of the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, what is the smallest species of bird, measuring 2.2 inches?
11. Often associated with LSD, what drug occurring in psychedelic mushrooms has the technical formula C12H17N2O4P?
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1. How many legs does a woodlouse have? This is also the atomic number of silicon.
14
2. Equal to 6.626*10^-34 Joule-seconds, Planck's constant is equivalent to the energy of a photon divided by what?
Frequency
3. Named for a Scottish physician, what type of facial paralysis where patients cannot control facial muscles on the affected side can stem from symptoms of Lyme disease and varicella zoster virus? Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien suffered from this condition.
Bell’s palsy
4. A deviation from Raoult's Law, what substances cannot be broken down by simple distillation? Water can form one of these with ethanol, nitric acid, or hydrochloric acid.
Azeotropes
5. From the Latin for "light-bringer", what generic term is used for compounds found in organisms that have bioluminescence?
Luciferin
6. The polysaccharides amylose and amylopectin are the two components of what?
Starch
7. What eight-letter word is used to describe a year which is the orbital period of Earth, and is the time scale that is base don Earth's rate of rotation measured relative to the fixed stars?
Sidereal
8. Computer scientist Alonzo Church created a system of computability theory that is Turing complete and is a form of "calculus" named for what Greek letter?
Lambda calculus
9. The most common type of hernia is what variety, about 66% of all hernias, and is named after the canals in the anterior abdominal wall where they persist?
Inguinal
10. Called the zunzuncito in its native home of the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, what is the smallest species of bird, measuring 2.2 inches?
Bee hummingbird
11. Often associated with LSD, what drug occurring in psychedelic mushrooms has the technical formula C12H17N2O4P?
Psilocybin