kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
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Question: What is the weight of the smallest known bird egg on the planet?
Choices: 2,5 grams; 5 grams; 0,5 grams; 1 gram
Answer: 0,5 grams
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Question: Eggs have a very high nutrition value. Which of the following substances is not present within an egg?
Choices: Chlorophyll; Phosphorus; Vitamin D; Choline
Answer: Chlorophyll
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Question: Which of the following is the Latin word for egg?
Choices: Ovum; Avis; Cancer; Rana
Answer: Ovum
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Question: The egg of this animal contains the largest existing single cell.
Choices: Ostrich; Komodo dragon; Platypus; Emu
Answer: Ostrich
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Question: Which of the following is not true about the bird eggshell?
Choices: The normal bird eggshell is porous.; The eggshell does not contain protein.; The eggshell consists of roughly 95% calcium carbonate crystals.; The bird eggshell is covered by a structure called cuticle.
Answer: The eggshell does not contain protein.
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Question: How many hours approximately does an eggshell formation take in an average laying hen?
Choices: About 48 hours; About 5 hours; About 20 hours; Less than 2 hours
Answer: About 20 hours
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Question: How long does it take for a platypus egg to develop completely and hatch?
Choices: 28 days of internal formation and 10 days of external incubation; 15 days of internal formation and 35 days of external incubation; 24 hours of internal formation and 15 days of incubation; The eggs develop within 7 days in the mothers uterus and the babies are hatched almost immediately after laying
Answer: 28 days of internal formation and 10 days of external incubation
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Question: Which of these expression does not refer to a yolkless egg?
Choices: Vain egg; Wind egg; Dwarf egg; Cock egg
Answer: Vain egg
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Question: Which of the following is not true about the egg yolk?
Choices: It contains 75% of the protein of the egg.; It is placed in a yolk sac.; Its usual color varies from pale yellow to deep orange.; It contains almost 100% of total amount of fat and cholesterol in the egg.
Answer: It contains 75% of the protein of the egg.
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Question: What is the main protein found in the egg white?
Choices: Ovalbumin; Fibrin; Gluten; Phosphoprotein
Answer: Ovalbumin
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Question: One famous analog computer was the water integrator, which functioned by manipulation of water through a room of pipes and pumps, where the water levels represented numbers, and the rate of flow represented mathematical operations.  Which country built the water integrator?
Choices: Soviet Union; Great Britain; USA; Germany
Answer: Soviet Union
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Question: This English mathematician, logician and cryptographer is widely regarded as the father of modern computer science.
Choices: Alan Turing; Max Newman; Ada Lovelace; John Atanasoff
Answer: Alan Turing
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Question: Which was the first implemented high-level general purpose programming language?
Choices: Cobol; BASIC; Fortran; Pascal
Answer: Fortran
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Question: In the 1950s, these electronic components replaced vacuum tubes in the production of computers.
Choices: diodes; chips; transistors; processors
Answer: transistors
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Question: In their third generation computers flourished, thanks Jack St. Clair Kilbys and Robert Noyces independent invention.  What did they invent?
Choices: the transistor; the first computer program; integrated circuit (or microchip); computer memory
Answer: integrated circuit (or microchip)
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Question: This computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Computer is often credited with developing the first mass-market home computers.
Choices: Steve Jobs; Bill Gates; John Vincent Atanasoff; Steve Woz Wozniak
Answer: Steve Woz Wozniak
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Question: Which was the first version of Microsoft Windows to support Plug and Play?
Choices: Windows 3.11; Windows 95; Windows XP; Windows 3.0
Answer: Windows 95
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Question: If the optimal body habitus for hot climates is tall and slender, what is one possible condition explaining pygmies?
Choices: Ice ages; Humidity; Rain; Low atmospheric preasure
Answer: Humidity
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Question: Which of the following is correct?
Choices: Primates include Gorillas, Monkeys and Humans.  Monkeys include Pro-Simians and Chimpanzees.; Primates include Monkeys, Pro-Simians, and Apes.  Apes include Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Humans.; Primates include Apes and Pro-Simians.  Pro-Simians include Humans.  Apes include Gorillas, Orangutans and Monkeys.; Primates include Humans, Pro-Simians and Apes.  Apes include Orangutans, Gorillas, and Monkeys.
Answer: Primates include Monkeys, Pro-Simians, and Apes.  Apes include Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Humans.
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Question: Which of the following modern diseases evolved as a protection against malaria?
Choices: Asthma; Sickle Cell Anemia; Lactose Intolerance; Tay Sachs
Answer: Sickle Cell Anemia
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Question: Which of the following primates is the closest related to humans?  (That is, this primate has more DNA in common with humans than any other living creature does.)
Choices: Lemur; Chimpanzee; Gorilla; Orangutan
Answer: Chimpanzee
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Question: African Americans are more likely to suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure) than European Americans.  Why?
Choices: Enslaved individuals were transported from Africa in the holds of ships, and given very little water.  Those whose bodies conserved salt were more likely to survive the journey.  Salt exacerbates high blood pressure.; Rap music raises blood pressure.; African Americans eat more salty food than European Americans do.; In tropical climates, one sweats a lot.  This results in water loss, which lowers blood pressure.  Africans therefore conserve salt more efficiently than Europeans.  In the United States, however, where it is cooler, this characteristic leads to high bloo
Answer: Enslaved individuals were transported from Africa in the holds of ships, and given very little water.  Those whose bodies conserved salt were more likely to survive the journey.  Salt exacerbates high blood pressure.
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Question: Dark skin contains melanin, which is a dark pigment in the skin.  The purpose for melanin is to protect the skin from harmful effects of ultraviolet sunlight, which include skin cancer.  What evolutionary advantage does light skin have?
Choices: Light skin lets in more sunlight, which allows a person in colder climates to get warm more easily.; Light skin lets in more sunlight.  Sunlight catalyzes the formation of Vitamin D.; Light skin tans more easily.  This makes the person more attractive and therefore facilitates mating.; Light skin is more attractive, which makes the person better able to attract a mate.
Answer: Light skin lets in more sunlight.  Sunlight catalyzes the formation of Vitamin D.
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Question: Mitochondrial DNA has been analyzed to estimate the ancestral lineage of various species around the world, including primates.  Which of the following statements about mitochondria is true?
Choices: Mitochondrial DNA does not mutate.; Mitochondria function in the cell to break down waste products.; Mitochondria are descended from once-separate, single-celled organisms which invaded a cell, stuck around, then lost their ability to live independently.; Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited by males.
Answer: Mitochondria are descended from once-separate, single-celled organisms which invaded a cell, stuck around, then lost their ability to live independently.
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Question: The Arecibo Observatory, located approximately 12 miles south-southwest from Arecibo, Puerto Rico, is notable for owning the worlds largest single-aperture telescope of this type.
Choices: Dioptric telescope; Radio telescope; Catadioptric telescope; Catoptric telescope
Answer: Radio telescope
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Question: The main purpose of the observatory located on the north shore of Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains, California is studying what?
Choices: Pulsars; Black holes; The Moon; The Sun
Answer: The Sun
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Question: The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth has become one of the most important telescopes in the history of astronomy since its launch in 1990. It doesnt work in which one of these wavelength regimes?
Choices: Optical; Ultraviolet; Near-infrared; Radio
Answer: Radio
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Question: Which of the following historical sites did not serve as a kind of observatory in the past?
Choices: Abu Simbel, Egypt; The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt; Stonehenge, Great Britain; Kokino, Republic of Macedonia
Answer: The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt
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Question: Which of these islands is known as the location of numerous important world observatories?
Choices: Okinawa; Cyprus; Hawaii; Madagascar
Answer: Hawaii
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Question: This observatory, located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, uses two telescopes equipped with adaptive optics.
Choices: Paranal Observatory; W. M. Keck Observatory; Observatorio Nacional de Llano del Hato; Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Answer: W. M. Keck Observatory
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Question: The Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Augustin, USA, consisting of what number of separate radio antennae?
Choices: 35; 12; 27; 19
Answer: 27
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Question: NASAs Chandra space observatory launched on July 23, 1999 uses what type of telescopes?
Choices: Optical telescopes; Infrared telescopes; X-ray telescopes; Radio telescopes
Answer: X-ray telescopes
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Question: The Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, established in 1897 by George Ellery Hale, works with a 102 cm (40 inch) refracting telescope.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments, located on the territory of which country?
Choices: Peru; Chile; Spain; Brazil
Answer: Chile
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Question: All planets, comets and asteroids orbit around the Sun.  What percentage of the Solar Systems mass does the Sun account for?
Choices: around one-half; 99.8%; 86.2%; around 10%
Answer: 99.8%
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Question: This tasteless, colorless and odorless chemical element makes up most of the Suns volume (approx. 92%).
Choices: Chromium; Magnesium; Oxygen; Hydrogen
Answer: Hydrogen
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Question: The surface temperature of the Sun is 5,780 K, which makes it white.  Why does the Sun appear yellow from the surface of the Earth?
Choices: due to the electromagnetic radiation; because of the distance the light travels; because of the blue color of the sky; because of our eyes inability to see light  in that range
Answer: because of the blue color of the sky
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Question: The Sun was once regarded as a small and insignificant star, but is now believed to be brighter than approximately 85% of the stars in the galaxy.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The Sun is a main sequence star and as such generates energy by this process, joining hydrogen nuclei together into helium.
Choices: nuclear spallation; isomerisation; nuclear fusion; induced gamma emission
Answer: nuclear fusion
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Question: The Sun is located at the center of our galaxy.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This commercially available non-toxic gas makes up 25% of the Suns mass.  It is used in deep diving to reduce the effects of narcosis.
Choices: nitrogen; hydrogen; helium; carbon
Answer: helium
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Question: What is referred to as the solar apex?
Choices: the highest point the Sun reaches during the day; the warmest day of the year as measured on the equator; the direction the Sun travels through space; the highest UV reading taken from the earths surface
Answer: the direction the Sun travels through space
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Question: Ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first person to present the theory that the sun is at the center of the solar system (heliocentrism).  However in the 16th century, this Polish astronomer was first to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric study.
Choices: Giovanni Cassini; Thomas Harriot; Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
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Question: Most cultures have a solar diety, someone who represents the Sun.  Who is the chief solar diety in Hinduism?
Choices: Krishna; Brahman; Ishvara; Surya
Answer: Surya
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Question: This is the most diverse and abundant group of organisms on Earth. Its members reproduce so fast that they can double their number as quickly as every 10 minutes.
Choices: Bacteria; Viruses; Algae; Fungi
Answer: Bacteria
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Question: Which of the following is the natural habitat of the bacteria?
Choices: The air and sea water; All of these; Earths surface and fresh water; Underground and the icebergs
Answer: All of these
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Question: A virus is a unicellular infectious agent consisting of genetic material encapsulated in a protective protein coat.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The members of only one of these types of microorganisms have a cell nucleus. Which are they?
Choices: Algae; Viruses; Archaea; Bacteria
Answer: Algae
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Question: Name the longest bone in the body.
Choices: Femur; Fibula; Tibia; Humerus
Answer: Femur
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Question: The scapula is part of the spine near the hip.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Name the ligament that attaches to the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
Choices: Ligamentus Trigemini; Ligamentum Tores; Ligamentus Iliopsoas; Ligamentum Teres
Answer: Ligamentum Teres
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Question: The largest semilunar cartilages, also called the menisci, are located in this part of the body.
Choices: Knee; Jaw; Shoulder; Hip
Answer: Knee
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Question: What is the most common reason for water waste?
Choices: Washing Machines; Showers; Dish Washers; Brushing your teeth
Answer: Showers
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Question: In an average household, on a daily basis most people forget the fan or lights on?
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of these is an efficient way to save trees?
Choices: Using the washing machine; Using less water; Killing animals instead; Using less electricity
Answer: Using less electricity
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Question: Can you donate any electrical items to a recycling dump place?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: Which of these can help produce pencils, without cutting down trees?
Choices: leaves; benches; jeans; branches
Answer: jeans
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Question: The water bottle is the most popular type of drink container found in garbage cans.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Can you recycle food scraps?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
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Question: The planet Mars is named after which of the following?
Choices: A Candy Bar; Roman God of Peace; Roman God of War; Greek God of the Sea
Answer: Roman God of War
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Question: Mars has two natural satellites. What are their names?
Choices: Phobos and Deimos; Vulcan and Apollo; Tom and Jerry; Zeus and Hara
Answer: Phobos and Deimos
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Question: Mars takes about how many Earth days to travel once around the Sun?
Choices: 243; 687; 466; 890
Answer: 687
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Question: The atmosphere of Mars is mostly composed of what element?
Choices: Methane; Oxygen; Hydrogen; Carbon Dioxide
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
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Question: What was the name of the first spacecraft to study Mars?
Choices: Viking 1; Mars 2; Viking 2; Mariner 4
Answer: Mariner 4
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Question: Mars has the tallest known mountain in the Solar System. What is its name?
Choices: Arsia Mons; Syrtis Major; Olympus Mons; Tharsis
Answer: Olympus Mons
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Question: Located along the Martian equator, Valles Marineris is a canyon much bigger than the Grand Canyon on Earth. How long is it?
Choices: 4,000 km long.; 750 km long.; Just under 500 km long.; 2,500 km long.
Answer: 4,000 km long.
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Question: What type of weather pattern on Mars can obscure the surface from view?
Choices: Thunder Storms; Dust Storms; Hurricanes; Snow Storms
Answer: Dust Storms
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Question: What astronomer was the first to see canali on the surface of Mars?
Choices: Sir Isaac Newton; Giovanni Shiaparelli; Galileo; Percival Lowell
Answer: Giovanni Shiaparelli
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Question: When was fibromyalgia recognized as an illness by the American Medical Association?
Choices: in the 1990s; in the 1960s; in the 1970s; in the 1980s
Answer: in the 1980s
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Question: Fibromyalgia is most common in women.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which of the following is not a common symptom of fibromyalgia?
Choices: Fatigue; Sleep disturbances; Pain; Low red blood count
Answer: Low red blood count
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Question: Fibromyalgia can be diagnosed with a simple blood test.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Fibromyalgia is a disorder of the central nervous system.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Low doses of antidepressants can be used to treat fibromyalgia patients.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: There is no generally accepted cure for fybromyalgia.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of the following areas of the body is not considered a tender point in the diagnosis of fibromyalgya?
Choices: Knees; Shoulder Blades; Ankles; Hips
Answer: Ankles
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Question: May 13th is the National Fibromyalgia Associations Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: People suffering from fibromyalgia may be genetically predisposed.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: The United States had 50 deaths from the Ebola Virus in the period from 1976 to 2006.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What disease took many lives in Russia, Poland and Romania during World War I ?
Choices: Malaria; Typhus; Smallpox; Cholera
Answer: Typhus
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Question: The Spanish Flu took the lives of over 40,000 people between 1918 and 1920.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: From what disease did former U.S. President James K. Polk die in 1849?
Choices: Cholera; Chicken Pox; Malaria; Flu
Answer: Cholera
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Question: In 1655 the Bubonic Plague hit India and China causing mass casualties.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In 1952, this disease struck the U.S. and became the worst epidemic in the nations history at that time.
Choices: Small Pox; Malaria; Whooping Cough; Polio
Answer: Polio
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Question: Which one of these objects does Perseus contain?
Choices: M45; M101; NGC 1499; PSR 0329+54
Answer: NGC 1499
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Question: What kind of Galaxy is the Milky Way?
Choices: Elliptical; Spiral; Barred Spiral; Irregular
Answer: Barred Spiral
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Question: Which of these will our Sun eventually become?
Choices: Neutron Star; Black Hole; Emission Nebula; Planetary Nebula
Answer: Planetary Nebula
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Question: What is the most distant object you can see unaided under the best possible conditions?
Choices: Triangulum Galaxy(M33); Andromeda Galaxy(M31); The Large Magellanic Cloud; The Whirlpool Galaxy(M51)
Answer: Triangulum Galaxy(M33)
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Question: Ophiuchus is on the ecliptic.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which ancient Greek astronomer cataloged 48 of the constellations?
Choices: Plato; Aristotle; Ptolemy; Aristarchus
Answer: Ptolemy
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Question: What is a fast-spinning neutron star that emits pulses of radio waves called?
Choices: Millisecondar; White Dwarf; Pulsar; Magnetar
Answer: Pulsar
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Question: Which quasar is the brightest as seen from Earth?
Choices: PSR0031-07; PKS0405-123; OQ 172; 3C 273
Answer: 3C 273
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Question: Which transit of planets against the Sun obscures the most of its disk?
Choices: Transit of Jupiter, viewed from Saturn; Transit of Earth, viewed from Mars; Transit of Uranus, viewed from Neptune; Transit of Saturn, viewed from Uranus
Answer: Transit of Jupiter, viewed from Saturn
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Question: In which constellation did the brightest (Apparent magnitude -9) supernova occur?
Choices: Crater; Lupus; Antlia; Hydra
Answer: Lupus
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Question: Which of these most closely describes a Mira Variable?
Choices: A variable that is in the constellation of Mensa; A star that suddenly brightens, dims, then is never as bright again; A red variable with an extreme change in brightness with a short pulsation period; A red star that pulsates once more than 100 days and changes by more than a magnitude
Answer: A red star that pulsates once more than 100 days and changes by more than a magnitude
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Question: Which planet has an apparent magnitude of  -2.8 to -1.6?
Choices: Venus; Mercury; Jupiter; Mars
Answer: Jupiter
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Question: Which of these smoking devices operates by water-filtration and direct heat?
Choices: Hookah; All of these; Water pipe; Hubble-bubble
Answer: All of these
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Question: This 2003 independent film, directed by Jim Jarmusch, consists of eleven short stories, which focus on coffee and cigarettes.
Choices: Buttermilk and Cigarettes; 200 Cigarettes and Black Coffee; None of these; Coffee and Cigarettes
Answer: Coffee and Cigarettes
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Question: Approximately how many different chemicals does a smoker inhale with one drag on the cigarette?
Choices: about 2000; about 200; over 4000; between 500 and 1000
Answer: over 4000
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Question: Which is the first US national antismoking coalition, formed in 1964?
Choices: Action on Smoking and Health; National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health; None of these; National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health
Answer: National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health
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Question: The World No Tobacco Day, a global event sponsored by the World Health Organization, is held annually on which day?
Choices: May 31; March 31; April 31; January 1
Answer: May 31
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Question: This type of tobacco is the mildest of all blending tobaccos and has the highest level of natural dextrose.
Choices: Perique; Burley; Latakia; Virginia
Answer: Virginia
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Question: This rare, slow burning, strong-tasting tobacco is used as a component of many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure.
Choices: Havana; Virginia; Perique; Cavendish
Answer: Perique
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Question: Which of these cigarette brands is produced by Philip Morris International?
Choices: LM; All of these; Marlboro; Parliament
Answer: All of these
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Question: What caused the death of Wayne McLaren and David McLean, famous for appearing in many Marlboro television and print advertisements?
Choices: Lung cancer; Car crash; Horse accident; Fire caused by a cigarette
Answer: Lung cancer
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Question: How many fluid ounces do 48 quarts equal?
Choices: 1,563; 1,536; 1,635; 1,653
Answer: 1,536
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Question: How many eggs are in 1 gross?
Choices: 144; 96; 12; 48
Answer: 144
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Question: Using the apothecary system, how many grains are in 4 drams?
Choices: 240; 200; 180; 220
Answer: 240
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Question: If a person bought a 5.05 acre tract, how many square feet would be in the 5.05 acre tract?
Choices: 217,800; 217,500; 219,675; 219,978
Answer: 219,978
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Question: A woodcutter chopped down enough trees to have 896 cubic feet of firewood. How many cords did he chop?
Choices: 6; 4; 7; 5
Answer: 7
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Question: A pharmacist was compounding a mixture for a topical antibiotic. Using the apothecary system, how many pounds did he make if the end product resulted in having twenty-four 3.5 ounce tubes?
Choices: 6.5 pounds; 5.25 pounds; 6 pounds; 7 pounds
Answer: 7 pounds
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Question: How many pecks are in 8 bushels?
Choices: 32; 16; 36; 24
Answer: 32
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Question: In order to always have exact change (using U.S. currency) and using the least amount of coins but having at least one of each coin, how many pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters do you have to carry? (The 50 cent piece is excluded).
Choices: 3 quarters, 1 dime, 2 nickels, 4 pennies; 2 quarters, 1 dime, 1 nickel, 4 pennies; 3 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickel, 4 pennies; 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels, 4 pennies
Answer: 3 quarters, 1 dime, 2 nickels, 4 pennies
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Question: In which unit measuring system do 2,240 pounds equal 1 ton?
Choices: Avoirdupois; Both avoirdupois and British; British; None of these
Answer: British
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Question: A chain is a unit of measure used primarily in profession?
Choices: A man in control of letting down the anchor on a ship; Lumberjacker; Fence installer; Surveyor
Answer: Surveyor
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Question: The human laryngeal prominence got its common name from this biblical figure.
Choices: Jacob; Abraham; Joseph; Adam
Answer: Adam
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Question: The organ of Corti, named after Alfonso Corti, is located in this body part of mammals.
Choices: Forebrain; Inner ear; Mammary gland; Eye
Answer: Inner ear
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Question: In what part of the human body are the Wormian bones, named after Ole Worm, located?
Choices: Thorax; Mandible; Pelvis; Cranium
Answer: Cranium
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Question: What type of cells are the Purkinje cells, named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyne?
Choices: Epithelial cells; Osteoblasts; Neurons; Smooth muscle cells
Answer: Neurons
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Question: What type of glands are the Glands of Montgomery?
Choices: Lacrimal glands; Sebaceous glands; Sudoriferous glands; Salivary glands
Answer: Sebaceous glands
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Question: The Fallopian tubes are part of this system in the human body.
Choices: Digestive system; Reproductive system; Urinary system; Respiratory system
Answer: Reproductive system
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Question: In what internal human organ are the islets of Langerhans located?
Choices: Spleen; Pancreas; Liver; Kidney
Answer: Pancreas
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Question: In what part of the human body is the bundle of His located?
Choices: Heart; Lungs; Testicles; Brain
Answer: Heart
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Question: Clara cells are found in this part of the human body.
Choices: Lungs; Tongue; Inner ear; Eyes
Answer: Lungs
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Question: During what medical procedure can the so-called Korotkoff sounds be perceived?
Choices: Examining bowel movements; Taking blood pressure; All of these; Ultrasound examination of the fetus
Answer: Taking blood pressure
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Question: We all know that the formula of water is H2O but can you remember this important property of water: in the water molecule at what angle is each of the hydrogen atoms from the oxygen atom?
Choices: 180 degrees; 114.5 degrees; 90 degrees; 104.45 degrees
Answer: 104.45 degrees
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Question: What is heavy water made of ?
Choices: Two hydrogen atoms and two oxugen atoms; Two deuterium atoms and one oxygen atom; Two oxygen atoms and one hydrogen atom; Three hydrogen atoms and one oxygen molecule.
Answer: Two deuterium atoms and one oxygen atom
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Question: The USA leadsâ the world in per capita consumption of water. Which country is second?
Choices: China; India; Canada; Brazil
Answer: Canada
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Question: About 95% of fresh water in the USA is underground. What is the name of the biggest source of fresh water in the USA?
Choices: The Lake Superior Aquifer; The Ogallala Aquifer; The Tampa Aquifer; The Columbian Aquifer
Answer: The Ogallala Aquifer
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Question: On which Chinese river is the 2335 meters (7660 ft) long and 185 meters (616 ft) high Three Gorges Dam located?
Choices: The Huang He; The Yangtze; The Pearl River; The Lian
Answer: The Yangtze
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Question: Control of the Ganges River, sacred to some people, has been much disputed between which two nations?
Choices: India and Bangladesh; India and Myanmar; India and Pakistan; India and China
Answer: India and Bangladesh
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Question: Pure water, if it exists, has this pH.
Choices: 7; 1; 14; 0
Answer: 7
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Question: There are high tides and low tides in the bigger water bodies on Earth. Which statement is true about tides?
Choices: Tides are caused by x-rays, not gravity.; Tides are caused by the gravitational effect of the Sun only.; Tides are caused by the gravitational forces of both the Moon and the Sun.; Tides are caused by the gravitational effect of the Moon only.
Answer: Tides are caused by the gravitational forces of both the Moon and the Sun.
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Question: What is the term for the points in the lunar cycle when the tides range is minimal?
Choices: Ebb Tide; Adoble Tide; Perigean Tide; Neap Tide
Answer: Neap Tide
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Question: Water sticks to itself. What is this property called?
Choices: Delaification; Atomic pedalation; Hydrogenation; Molecular cohesion
Answer: Molecular cohesion
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Question: It is amazing but true that sometimes hot water can freeze faster than cold water. What is this effect called?
Choices: Deplembes Effect; Mpemba Effect; Fourier Effect; Torricelli Effect
Answer: Mpemba Effect
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Question: The 2005 movie Water centered on people from this country.
Choices: Morocco; China; Chad; India
Answer: India
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Question: What does the scientific term virga mean?
Choices: The effect on Mars that makes it appear as if water was on Mars; Rain that never hits Earth; The salt that remains after sea water has been desalinated; Water that has undergone desalination
Answer: Rain that never hits Earth
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Question: It has been proved that drinking only bottled water can have this effect on your health.
Choices: Increase in body fat; Increase in weight; Increase in dental problems; Increase in heart disease
Answer: Increase in dental problems
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Question: Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of what?
Choices: Truth; Lust; Love; Beauty
Answer: Love
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Question: The Planet Venus orbits the Sun once every how many days?
Choices: 325; 200; 125; 225
Answer: 225
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Question: Venus travels around the Sun at an average distance of how many miles?
Choices: 120 million miles; 67 million miles; 1.2 billion miles; 38 million miles
Answer: 67 million miles
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Question: Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and what other object?
Choices: Proxima Centuri; Aldeberan; Sirius; The Moon
Answer: The Moon
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Question: Which scientist discovered the atmosphere of Venus?
Choices: Galileo Galilei in 1702 A.D.; Pythagoras in 546 B.C.; Giovanni Cassini in 1790 A.D.; Mikhail Lomonosov in 1761 A.D
Answer: Mikhail Lomonosov in 1761 A.D
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Question: Venus has the densest atmosphere of the Solar System. What gaseous element comprises the bulk of the atmosphere?
Choices: Oxygen; Neon; Carbon Dioxide; Helium
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
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Question: What was the name of the first interplanetary probe to study Venus?
Choices: Mariner 1; Verona 1; Verona 2; Mariner 2
Answer: Mariner 2
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Question: Because of the Greenhouse Effect, Venus has the hottest surface temperature in the Solar System. What is the average temperature on Venus?
Choices: 1,200 Degrees C.; 135 Degrees C.; 460 Degrees C.; 800 Degrees C.
Answer: 460 Degrees C.
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Question: Venus has no natural satellite or moon.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What was the first privately financed craft to go into outer space?
Choices: The SpaceX Dragon; MIR; SpaceHab; SpaceShipOne
Answer: SpaceShipOne
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Question: What was the first person to fly a balloon that was filled with hydrogen gas?
Choices: Count Ferdinand Zeppelin; Francois F. DeRozier; Joseph Montgolier; Jacques A.C. Charles
Answer: Jacques A.C. Charles
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Question: What is the difference between a balloon and a zeppelin?
Choices: A balloon can only go up and down; it cannot go East-West or left-right.; A zeppelin has a pilot or pilots below the gas filled chamber.; A zeppelin has a rigid frame around the balloon containing the gases.; A zeppelin is filled with specific gases rather than hot air.
Answer: A zeppelin has a rigid frame around the balloon containing the gases.
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Question: In 1883 Otto Lilienthal became the first person to successfully fly this type of aircraft.
Choices: Thermaclimber; Glider; Graf Zeppelin; Heavier than air balloon
Answer: Glider
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Question: When Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, he had almost no visibility from his front windows.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Schiphol Airport is the main airport of this city.
Choices: Brussels; Berlin; Amsterdam; Vienna
Answer: Amsterdam
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Question: Paul MacCready designed the first working solar plane. What was its name?
Choices: Solar Challenger; DaVinci Solar Wind; Solar Impulse; Gossamer Penguin
Answer: Gossamer Penguin
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Question: Who was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon?
Choices: Heinrich Kubis; Steve Fossett; Richard Rutan; John Alcock
Answer: Steve Fossett
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Question: How fast is Mach 1?
Choices: 1207 kilometers per hour; 1207 meters per hour; 1207 feet per second; 1207 miles per hour
Answer: 1207 kilometers per hour
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Question: What was the name of the first space station?
Choices: MIR; Soyuz; Skylab 1; Salyut
Answer: Salyut
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Question: In 1956, Tennessee businessman David Flexer had this great idea.
Choices: Have airlines transport packages on long  flights; Show movies on airline flights; Build a supersonic airplane; Have floatation devices aboard airline flights
Answer: Show movies on airline flights
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Question: In what year was the first in-flight meal served?
Choices: 1969; 1949; 1919; 1959
Answer: 1919
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Question: What is the name of the first in-flight magazine for commercial flights?
Choices: Air News; Pan American News; Traveller; Clipper
Answer: Clipper
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Question: In 1938 Doug Corrigan set out on a flight from New York to California. What nickname did he get after the flight?
Choices: Day/Night  Corrigan; California DreaminCorrigan; Wrong Way Corrigan; All-the-Way Corrigan
Answer: Wrong Way Corrigan
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Question: Which airlines  introduced  the frequent flyer program?
Choices: KLM; Delta Airlines; Pan American Airlines; American Airlines
Answer: American Airlines
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Question: In what year did an airplane first hit 200 miles per hour?
Choices: 1944; 1922; 1955; 1933
Answer: 1922
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Question: Who was the first US Senator to fly on the Space Shuttle?
Choices: Bill Bradley; Jake Garn; Tom McMillan; John Glenn
Answer: Jake Garn
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Question: Who was the first actor to attain the rank of Brigadier General in the US Air Force?
Choices: William Bendix; Kirk Douglas; James Stewart; Clark Gable
Answer: James Stewart
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Question: What distinction does Dennis Tito hold?
Choices: He was the first tourist in space.; He was the first person to fly the Shuttle, shoot down an enemy  fighter, and fly a balloon across the Atlantic.; He was the first person to fly the Shuttle three times.; He was the first person to make a space walk.
Answer: He was the first tourist in space.
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Question: Which of these particles has a negative charge?
Choices: Neutron; Electron; Proton; Posititron
Answer: Electron
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Question: This person is given credit for coining the term surfing the internet.
Choices: Marvin Minsky; Tim Lee-Berniers; Jean Armour  Polly; Gregory Chaitin
Answer: Jean Armour  Polly
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Question: Who helped invent the blender?
Choices: Carl Sontheimer; Fred Waring; Carl Frederick Winson; Gene Armor Polly
Answer: Fred Waring
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Question: The Earths atmosphere is about 78.8 % nitrogen and almost 21 % oxygen. This element is the third most abundant comprising about 0.93 % of the atmosphere.
Choices: Helium; Krypton; Phosphorous; Argon
Answer: Argon
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Question: Which is the highest layer of the Earthâs atmosphere?
Choices: Iconosphere; Ectosphere; Exosphere; Endosphere
Answer: Exosphere
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Question: Which of these units for distance is the longest?
Choices: 1 par sec; 1 light year; 1 galactic year; 1 astronomical unit
Answer: 1 par sec
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Question: Find the correct statement about cyclones.
Choices: Cyclones always carry hot air.; In the Northern Hemisphere cyclones move in a counterclockwise direction.; Cyclones are high pressure systems.; In cyclones air moves away from the center.
Answer: In the Northern Hemisphere cyclones move in a counterclockwise direction.
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Question: Which of the following terms describes a dark layer of clouds that bring rain or snow?
Choices: Stratocumulus; Cirrus; Nimbostratus; Altocumulus
Answer: Nimbostratus
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Question: This is a synonym for neutron star.
Choices: White  Dwarf; Black hole; Pulsar; Questars
Answer: Pulsar
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Question: Which type of mirror produces an image that is smaller than the original?
Choices: Convex; Flat; Concave-Convex; Concave
Answer: Concave
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Question: Loudness is measured in decibels. A pneumatic drill at about 40 feet gives about 85 decibels. How many decibels result from an airplane taking off 200 feet (60 m) away?
Choices: 110; 300; 95; 120
Answer: 120
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Question: The poles of magnets are able to point the way because of ferromagnetic materials deep inside the Earthâs core.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Scientists are using this animal to try and find a vaccine for leprosy.
Choices: Armadillos; Poison dart frogs; Sea Urchins; Bats
Answer: Armadillos
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Question: What is the lightest element that is a metal?
Choices: Titanium; Lithium; Cobalt; Boron
Answer: Lithium
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Question: The first fly byâ for the planet Mars occurred in this year.
Choices: 1975; 1955; 1945; 1965
Answer: 1965
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Question: In math and science a double tilda is often used as  a symbol. Which is symbolized by a double tilde?
Choices: Has the same atomic number as; Has the same first derivative as; Is approximately equal to; Has the same atomic weight as
Answer: Is approximately equal to
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Question: The first artificial satellite to orbit Mars orbited the planet for 12 months beginning in this year.
Choices: 1981; 1991; 2001; 1971
Answer: 1971
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Question: Which of these waves have the highest wave length?
Choices: Microwaves; Infra -red  waves; X-rays; Radio waves
Answer: Radio waves
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Question: Dinosaurs can be divided into two groups: Ornithschians and Saurischians. The difference between them is mainly in the structure of this part of their bodies.
Choices: Eyes; Hips; Teeth; Toes
Answer: Hips
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Question: Which of these living creatures appearred on Earth first?
Choices: Fish; Reptiles; Seed plants; Birds
Answer: Fish
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Question: What was the animal featured in the insignia of the Apollo 11 mission, the first mission to land a human being on the Moon?
Choices: A hawk; An eagle; A bear; A lion
Answer: An eagle
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Question: Who was the President of the United States at the time when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Gerald Ford; Richard Nixon
Answer: Richard Nixon
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Question: What was the name of the command module of Apollo 11?
Choices: Columbia; Eagle; Georgia; Thunder
Answer: Columbia
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Question: Which of the three astronauts from Apollo 11 remained in the command module while the other two separated along with the lunar module?
Choices: Neil Alden Armstrong; Michael Collins; Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin, Jr.; All of these
Answer: Michael Collins
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Question: How did Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin, Jr. get his nickname Buzz?
Choices: He was given that nickname because he was an engineer.; His sister gave it to him.; He was extremely talkative as a child, to the point of being annoying.; His beloved grandfather called him Buzz.
Answer: His sister gave it to him.
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Question: Which of the three astronauts from Apollo 11 has lost a child in 1962?
Choices: Both Collins and Armstrong; Neil Armstrong; Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin, Jr.; Michael Collins
Answer: Neil Armstrong
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Question: How much time did the astronauts from Apollo 11 spend on the lunar surface?
Choices: About 60 minutes; 5 hours; 35 minutes; 2Â½ hours
Answer: 2Â½ hours
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Question: Which of these objects did the astronauts from Apollo 11 leave on the Moon surface during their mission?
Choices: Two drawings of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres of the Earth; All of these; The signature of the American president, and their own signatures; An American flag
Answer: All of these
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Question: Buzz Aldrin made a guest star appearance in an episode of The Simpsons. What was his comment when Homer Simpson showed no recognition of him being the second man to walk on the Moon?
Choices: Second comes right after first!; Hey, I was just a second late!; Im famous, the rest is history.; How many times have you been on the Moon?
Answer: Second comes right after first!
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Question: On May 1, 2009, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 were granted this exceptional award.
Choices: All of these; Purple heart; Congressional Gold Medal; Presidential Medal of Freedom
Answer: Congressional Gold Medal
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Question: Electrooculography is a medical procedure which inspects the potential of which bodily organ?
Choices: Retina; Inner ear; Adrenal glands; Taste buds
Answer: Retina
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Question: On which part of the body is the surgical procedure osteotomy performed?
Choices: Duodenum; Tonsils; Smooth muscle tissue; Bones
Answer: Bones
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Question: Sigmoidoscopy is a medical examination of which internal organ?
Choices: Gallbladder; Brain cavity; Large intestine; Uterus
Answer: Large intestine
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Question: What is transplanted during the medical procedure xenotransplantation?
Choices: Organs from one person to another; Blood from one person to another; All of these; Tissues from one species to another
Answer: Tissues from one species to another
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Question: Tympanoplasty is a type of reconstructive surgery performed on which part of the body?
Choices: Fingers or toes; Eardrum; Skull bones; Knees
Answer: Eardrum
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Question: Genioplasty or mentoplasty is a cosmetic surgery procedure which aims at improving the appearance of which part of the body?
Choices: Chin; Buttocks; Genitals; Knees
Answer: Chin
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Question: Nephrectomy is a surgical removal of which internal organ?
Choices: Kidney; Thyroid gland; Pancreas; Spleen
Answer: Kidney
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Question: Blepharoplasty is a cosmetic surgery procedure which aims at improving the appearance of which body part?
Choices: Forehead; Neck; Lips; Eyelids
Answer: Eyelids
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Question: What body part is involved in the medical procedure called orchiopexy?
Choices: Teeth; Tendons; Navel; Testicle
Answer: Testicle
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Question: Debridement is a medical procedure which is administered in which case?
Choices: Infected tissue; Presence of dead tissue; All of these; Damaged tissue
Answer: All of these
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Question: The first successful experiment with nuclear fission, the process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei, was conducted in which year?
Choices: 1938; 1932; 1934; 1936
Answer: 1938
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Question: These two physicists received the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering work popularly known as splitting the atom.
Choices: Eugene Wigner and Lyman Briggs; Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller; John Cockroft and Ernest Walton
Answer: John Cockroft and Ernest Walton
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Question: This is the year in which the worlds first nuclear power plant generating electricity for commercial use was officially connected to the Soviet power grid.
Choices: 1954; 1956; 1953; 1955
Answer: 1954
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Question: This place, popular as the center of the Whiskey rebellion, is the worlds first nuclear powered city.
Choices: San Diego, CA; Baltimore; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Question: This 1903 Nobel Prize laureate  discovered radioactivity in 1896.
Choices: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen; Henri Becquerel; Elihu Thomson; Niels Bohr
Answer: Henri Becquerel
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Question: The International Nuclear Events Scale, used to signify the grade of nuclear accidents, has how many levels?
Choices: 6; 7; 3; 10
Answer: 7
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Question: The first Peaceful Nuclear Explosion (PNE) blast in the US was conducted in which year?
Choices: 1960; 1959; 1961; 1965
Answer: 1961
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Question: What was the codename of the first US thermonuclear bomb test, carried out in 1954?
Choices: Operation Chariot; Castle Romeo; Operation Fat Man; Operation Argus
Answer: Castle Romeo
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Question: This group of alloys, which is a combination of at least one metal and one or more other elements, is used to clad fuel rods in nuclear plants.
Choices: Amalgam; Zircaloy; Hastelloy; Electrum
Answer: Zircaloy