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Оглавление1 What was the first comet whose return was predicted?
2 Which mosquito-borne tropical disease is also known as breakbone fever?
3 The Wong-Baker FACES Scale is used to help children communicate what?
4 The Vermilion border defines which part of the face?
5 Which unit of time is one quintillionth of a second?
6 Hypokalaemia is a deficiency of which alkali metal in the blood?
7 Also known as occupational asthenopia, what is CVS?
8 Sapphire is a variety of which aluminium oxide mineral?
9 Used in demonstrations of tabletop “volcanoes”, which compound is sometimes called “Vesuvian Fire”?
10 In 1957, the “Traitorous Eight” quit the Semiconductor Laboratory named after which Nobel laureate?
11 The spiral of Theodorus or Einstein spiral is composed of contiguous what?
12 Which flavour of quark is the heaviest subatomic particle ever observed?
13 Which allotrope of oxygen is measured in Dobson units?
14 Putting clocks on commercial jet flights, the 1971 Hafele-Keating experiment tested which theory in physics?
15 Which Swedish chemist is credited with identifying selenium, thorium and cerium?
16 David Hilbert said of which German mathematician: “No one shall expel us from the Paradise that [he] has created”?
17 In 1838, what did Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden propose as the basic functional unit of all living things?
18 What does haptic technology recreate?
19 Which American futurist is the author of Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011)?
20 Name the double Nobel Prize-winner in the image –
