General Science Quiz 39

General Science Quiz 39

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1. The scientific study of congenital abnormalities of physiological development is called

Teratology
Morphology
Genetics
Physiology

2. Sphygmology is the study of

Pulse
Phlegm
Skin
Blood

3. The first cloned deer in the world was born in 2003. What was the name of the deer?

Dolly
Dewey
Injaz
Gene

4. Which protein in the blood carries oxygen from the respiratory organs (lungs or gills) to the rest of the body?

Haemoglobin
Keratin
Collagen
Mycoglobin

5. Who developed the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?

Tim Berners Lee
Peter Norton
Phil Zimmermann
Richard Stallman

6. With which one of the following will you associate Richard Stallman?

Free Software Foundation
GNU Project
Open Source Software Movement
All of these

7. What is a spider in Internet terminology?

A computer virus
A person who hacks into computers
A specialised web browser
A program that indexes websites

8. A computer virus that actively seeks out an antivirus program on a computer system and attacks it is called

Trojan
Worm
Retrovirus
Boot sector virus

9. Which space agency launched the world's heaviest rocket 'Falcon Heavy'?

NASA
JAXA
ESA
SpaceX

10. Which Nobel Prize winning scientist establish the World Food Prize?

Norman Borlaug
Sir John B. Gurdon
J. Robin Warren
Henri La Fontaine

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