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1
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The Key navigational Landmark during the first moon Landing was

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Mount Marilyn

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Name the first telescopic explorer of the moon

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Jesuit priest, Giovanni Riccolli

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Of the 147 lunar craters named by Giovanni Riccolli, only two were named for women, name them

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria Hypathia

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The first woman in space

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Valentina Tereshkova

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Two theories for the origin of the earths water

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  1. Solar Nebula 2. Asteroid
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How do asteroids store water

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They trap hydrogen and oxygen in its minerals

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Name a plane on our planet where the earths deep mantle is accessible

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Baffin Island in Canada

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Leading theory for the moons formation

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A mars sized object slammed into the earth

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Name the person who was instrumental in making the human genome project happen

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Craig Venter

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Two. Icknames of Ozzie Osbourne

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Prince of darkness Godfather of heavy metal

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Name one gene responsible for alcohol dehydrogenase

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ADH 4

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12
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Name one gene that is linked to alcoholism

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GABRG 3

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13
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Which group of people are more prone for facial flushing following alcohol intake

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Asian descent

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14
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The facial flushing following alcohol intake is known as

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Asian Flush Asian Glow Alcohol Flush Reaction

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15
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What is the reason for the Alcohol Flush Reaction

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Acetaldehyde accumulates and is not broken down to acetate

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16
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Name the bless molecule in our bodies

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Anandamide

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17
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Does our. Bodies produce anandamide naturally

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Yes

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18
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To which receptors does anandamide bind

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Cannabinoid

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19
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What is the role of anandamide

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Decrease anxiety

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20
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Name the enzyme that breaks down anandamide

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Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase

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21
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Name the gene that produces Fatty Axid Amide Hydrolase

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FAAH gene

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If there is a mutation in the FAAH gene what happens

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Less amount of fatty acid Amide Hydrolase will be produced and the amount of anandamide will increase

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When the liver processes alcohol it secretes a protein called

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FGF 21

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24
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The protein FGF 21 secreted by the liver finally binds to which organ

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Receptor on the brain which is made of a protein called Beta-Klotho

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Name the protein responsible for cross talk between the liver and the brain

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Beta-Klotho

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Persons with decreased desire to drink have an excess of which protein

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Beta-Klotho

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27
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Who discovered the precise value of a single electron charge

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Robert Millikan

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28
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What is the precise value of a single electron charge

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1.062*10 raise to the power of -19

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29
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Name the first modern telescope to look skyward

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Hooker Telescope in 1917. 100 inches across

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30
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After the Hooker telescope, which was the second one in 1949 that was 200 inches across

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Hale Telescope

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What is INTERFEROMETRY

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Placing smaller telescopes further apart and then combing their light through a process called interferometry

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Radioastronomers using interferometry photographed the first supermassive black hole from which galaxy

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M87

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Name the quartet of giant telescopes that will kick off a new era of discovery

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  1. LSST..large synoptic survey telescope 2. GMT..giant magellan telescope 3. ELT..extremely large telescope 4. TMT..thirty meter telescope
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34
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What holds the galaxies in the universe together

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Dark matter

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35
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What causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate

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Dark energy

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36
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Name the new orbiting telescope that is scheduled to launch in 2021

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James Webb telescope

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37
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Who proposed the concept of a KEYSTONE SPECIES

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Robert Paine. Disproportionate impact of keystone species on ecosystem. He experimented with starfish

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38
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The most destructive industry ever invented was the

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Food production industry

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39
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Name the super fly from which insect farming is now starting on a. Asa I’ve scale

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Black soldier fly

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40
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Human language conveys information at what rate

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39 bits per second

41
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How big is a proton

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0.83 femtometers

42
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In 2010 what measurement was used to calculate the size of a proton

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MUONIC HYDROGEN

43
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Delhi’s ranking among the most polluted cities in the world

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11

44
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Name the chemicals that was used in fire fighting foams and which is known to accumulate in people’s blood

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PFAs Perfluroalkyls Polyfluroalkyls

45
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Ancient European apes may have been the first to walk on two legs, name the new species discovered

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Danuvius Guggenmossi

46
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Name the epidemic that killed pigs in Africa

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African swine fever

47
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Is the universe spherical or flat

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We are not really sure

48
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What are CARBOB DOTS

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Ball like particles of carbon less than 10 nanometers that can be attached to other molecules

49
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Name the microbe that reasearchers use to insert DNA into plant genome

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Agrobacterium

50
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How are carbon dots made

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By beating sugar in a normal microwave oven

51
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What polymer is attached to a carbon dot

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Polyethylene glycol.

52
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Why is polyethylene glycol attached to a carbon dot

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Because polyethylene glycol electrostatically attracts DNA molecules

53
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Name the statistical model used for tactical voting

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MRP..multilevel regression and post stratification

54
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Name the scandal where Facebook was involved

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Cambridge analytica scandal

55
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For the first time we may have spotted water on a comet, name that comet

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BORISOV

56
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We locate ourselves within an environment with the help of cells the forms the brains inner GPS system, name these cells

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Place cells and grid cells

57
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The new cells discovered in rats called VECTOR TRACE CELLS relate to what

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It related to objects in an environment

58
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Which part of the brain is related to memory and interpreting space

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Hippocampus

59
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In rats the VECTOR TRACE CELLS are found in which part of the hippocampus

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SUBICULUM

60
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The first part of the brain to degenerate in Alzheimer’s disease is

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SUBICULUM

61
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Do rain forests recycle rainfall

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Yes, on a heroic scale

62
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Each tree in a rainforest releases how much of water into the air

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500 liters

63
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What helps turn water into rain clouds

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Volatile organic compounds such as ISOPRENES and TERPENES. These compounds oxidise into tiny molecular seeds around which raindrops form

64
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Can ozone be generated by fires

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Yes

65
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Is ozone toxic to plants

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Yes. As a rule of thumb 40 ppb is toxic to plants

66
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Human genetic studies have so far suffered from

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Lack of diversity

67
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What is the THREE BODY PROBLEM in maths

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How three objects orbit one another under their own gravity

68
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When black holes collide , they generate what type of waves

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Gravitational waves

69
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Can we change the size of our pupils by simply thinking about bright light

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Yes

70
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Post Measles infections in children are even more deadly than the measles itself, why

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Measles MASSIVELY damages the immune system. It’s as if the immune system is reset to infancy. Close to 75% of the antibody library is lost for all kinds of pathogens

71
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How long does it take for an immune system to recover following a measles infection

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Five years

72
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How long does it take for the immune system to recover in people given the powerful immunosuppressive RITUXIMSB

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Five years

73
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The 2015 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded for the discovery of two drugs, name them

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Artemisinin Ivermectin

74
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Who discovered the Chinese medicine Artemisinin

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Chinese scientist Youyou Tu

75
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Who discovered Ivermectin

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Irish parasitologist William C Campbell Japanese microbiologist Santoshi Omura

76
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Name the ghostly particle with no electrical charge

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Neutrino

77
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Do neutrinos have mass

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Yes. They were first thought to be massless

78
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Name the particle that changes state as it passes through space

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Neutrino

79
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How does EL Nino occur

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When the Pacific trade winds weaken and the hot surface ocean water moves eastwards . Causing heavy rainfall in South America and draughty in Australasia

80
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Name the NASA space missions to VENUS

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DAVINCI..to study the toxic atmosphere of Venus VERITAS.. to map the surface in high definition

81
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Name a psychotherapy which resulted in an epidemic of FALSE SATANIC ABUSE in the 1980’s and 90’s

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Recovered Memory Therapy

82
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All animals including human emit heat in the form of what waves

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Infrared waves

83
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Nuclear reactions produce certain particles that barely interact with ordinary matter, and can stream away from reactors which can then be picked up by suitable instruments, Name this particle

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Neutrino

84
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Name the two theories to explain the mass extinction of dinosaurs

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  1. Asteroids 2. Climate change triggered by vast volcanic eruptions
85
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Name a part on earth which oozed more than a million cubic kms of lava over about 800,000 years

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Deccan traps

86
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Deccan Traps is in which part of the world

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Modern day India

87
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What is a mega tsunami

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Giant waves more than 100 meters

88
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Giant waves can be triggered by

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  1. Falling space objects 2. Collapsing flanks of volcanic islands 3. Earthquakes
89
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An alternative to fight antibiotic resistance is

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Bacteriophage

90
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Name the cells in the pancreas that are potentially capable of secreting insulin

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Pancreatic duct cells

91
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What are soft robots made of

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Pliable plastic which is powered by compressed air

92
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Is the corpus callosum larger in musicians as compared to non musicians

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Yes

93
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What is the human version of a fish shoal

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Peloton

94
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About 30,000BC where did human store information

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Cave paintings

95
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At 6000 BC the earliest writings found in China was written on

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Tortoise shells

96
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Who pioneered the photographic film role in 1885

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George Eastman

97
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The earliest gramophone record in 1895 was made of

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Crushed beetles…SHELLAC. It was replaced by vinyl in 1949

98
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In 1982 information was stored using plastic and light…

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Compact disc

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