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What do we call a straight line which touches a curve but continues without crossing it?
The deficiency of which vitamin is associated with the disease Rickets?

What biblical measurement was approximately 18 inches?
What energy powers the world's four largest power plants: nuclear, water, gas or coal?
Persons with which blood group are called universal donors?
What is nitrous oxide commonly called?
Which university town houses the Cavendish Laboratory?
What is measured by a Geiger-Muller counter?
Who in 1660 discovered the law of elasticity?
Which food is to blame for most cases of salmonella?
What do we call a straight line which touches a curve but continues without crossing it?
What gas is used as a disinfectant in drinking water?
Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 published and devised the first what?

Who was the third person to walk on the moon?
Which field of science is related with the study of 'Nephrology'?
Which black and white bird of the crow family has the scientific name Pica pica?
What is the name of the second biggest planet in our solar system?
What facet of human anatomy did William Harvey discover?
Atoms of the same chemical element that have different atomic mass are known as what?
If igneous and sedimentary are two of the three main rock types, what is the third?
What is the more common name for the patella?
Of what is a Positron an antiparticle?
Electric resistance is typically measured in what units?
'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction' is which number of Newton's Laws?
Which science comprises of the study of the solid Earth and the rocks of which it is composed?
Which scientist discovered the neutron?
Which supermodel impressed Brian Cox with her knowledge of quantum physics at a showbiz soiree?
What gas is commonly used to fill floating Birthday balloons?

Which famous scientist introduced the idea of natural selection?
What planet in the Solar System is closest in size to Earth?
At what temperature is Centigrade equal to Fahrenheit?
Pure water has a pH level of a around what number?
Kelvin is a unit to measure what?
Triton is the largest moon of what planet?
Which scientific word when translated means 'anything that can produce disease'?
Which scientist is said to have shouted out 'Eureka!'?
What science fiction writer wrote the three laws of robotics?
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Which chemical element has the symbol 'V'?
Deimos and Phobos are moons of what planet?
What is the second most common gas found in the air we breathe?
Electric power is typically measured in what units?
What is the human body’s biggest organ?

What is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation?
Which element has the chemical symbol Pb?
What is the S.I. unit for electrical resistance?
How many laws of thermodynamics are there?
What is the reciprocal of 2?
What nationaliy was Galileo Galilei?
Who discovered both sodium and potassium in 1807?
Which scientist and mathematician would you associate with Syracuse?
What figure is a parallelogram with four equal sides and no right angles?
What animal gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich?
What number comes next in the Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5?
Scientist Marie Curie was born in which country?
Which science branch covers animals and animal life?
Sir Isaac Newton was born in which English county?
Roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists, star in which American sitcom?

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