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| 1. | From what continent do Guinea Pigs originate? |
| 2. | The brachial artery is the major blood vessel of what part of the human body? |
| 3. | What two body parts are connected by the Eustachian tube? |
| 4. | Only two known kinds of living mammals lay eggs. Name both of them. |
| 5. | What is the Latin medical term for your shoulder blade? |
| 6. | What virus was intentionally introduced in Australia, France, and Chile in the 1950s to control wild European rabbit populations? |
| 7. | What part of the body does a rhinologist study? |
| 8. | One of the strongest muscles in the body, what 'M' describes the muscle that controls the lower jaw? |
| 9. | Jelly Bean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat... What comes next? |
| 10. | What boy's name is also the SI derived unit of electrical inductance? |
| 11. | What name is given to a parallelogram with four equal sides and no right angles? |
| 12. | A gas above -269 °C, at -272.2° C, what chemical element has the lowest freezing point? |
| 13. | What 'G' describes the fine silk used by small spiders for ballooning or kiting? |
| 14. | What vitamin is produced by the action of ultraviolet light on the skin? |
| 15. | Which has a shorter wavelength, red light or blue light? |
| 16. | What company began life in January 1994 as "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web"? |
| 17. | Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of what? |
| 18. | All kittens are born with what colour eyes? |
| 19. | What is denoted on a weather map by a line with row of semi circles attached? |
| 20. | What 'D' describes a disorder of the mind resulting in a serious loss of global cognitive ability, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's disease? |
| 21. | What is the largest planet in our solar system? |
| 22. | What famous English scientist was born on Christmas Day in 1642? |
| 23. | Fulminology is the scientific study of, and astraphobia is the fear of, what? |
| 24. | What is the fastest animal on two legs? |
| 25. | Native to the Himalayas, what type of animal is this? |
| 26. | To the nearest whole number, how many times stronger is Earth's gravity compared to that of the Moon? |
| 27. | What Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a Lunar Roving Vehicle? |
| 28. | What has the chemical formula H2O2? |
| 29. | The tallest and heaviest of its kind, what species of penguin is this? |
| 30. | What is the name of the short-period comet visible to the naked eye from Earth every 75-76 years? |
| 31. | What chemical element has the symbol V and atomic number 23? |
| 32. | What 'M' is the device that generates microwaves in a microwave oven? |
| 33. | Where on the human body is the olfactory epithelium? |
| 34. | Pollex is the Latin term for what body part? |
| 35. | Petrology is a branch of geology that studies what? |
| 36. | On the Beaufort wind force scale, what number represents hurricane force winds? |
| 37. | What is the name of the two tubes that propel urine from the kidneys to the bladder? |
| 38. | This breed of dog, developed in Southern Africa, is commonly called a Rhodesian what? |
| 39. | A member of the horse family, what animal is divided into three species: the plains, the Grévy's and the mountain? |
| 40. | Glycaemia is the presence, or the level, of what in the blood? |
| 41. | What advance in sound recording was patented by English electronics engineer Alan Blumlein in 1933? |
| 42. | What term describes a person who studies family history? |
| 43. | What 'P' is the stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food? |
| 44. | Approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, what is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way? |
| 45. | 9,842½ inches is roughly equal to how many metres? |
| 46. | What colour head does a male Mallard have? |
| 47. | What name is given to the green alkaline fluid produced by the liver? |
| 48. | What contagious skin infection, caused by mites, gets its name from the Latin word for "to scratch"? |
| 49. | What 'S' is used to describe a young domestic pigeon? |
| 50. | What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for barium, neodymium, silver, and einsteinium? |
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