12scienceWhat word can refer to a soft, creamy European cheese, or to the fundamental units of matter, smaller than an electrons (as surmised by scientists).Show AnswerShare
2scienceWhat was the name of the controversial herbicide used by the United States during the Vietnam War to defoliate jungles?Show AnswerShare
7scienceIn 1962, European countries joined forces to establish an international astronomical project. They set up a space observatory, with some of the most powerful telescopes in the world, at La Silla, in which southern country?Show AnswerShare
18scienceIn the late 1970s, the Viking spacecraft sent back to Earth photographs and reports about the surface of which planet?Show AnswerShare
17scienceA deficiency of Vitamin C can cause a disorder characterized by bleeding gums and extreme weakness, called what?Show AnswerShare
16scienceThe first Nobel Prize for physics was awarded in 1901 to the German physicist who discovered a short-wave ray called the x-ray. In Europe, they refer to x-rays by his name. Who was he?Show AnswerShare
11scienceWhich organ in the human body is the most commonly transplanted from one human to another?Show AnswerShare
20scienceWhich hockey player holds the record for having scored the most goals in Stanley Cup playoff games, 122 in a 16-year career?Show AnswerShare
20scienceWhich disease was appropriately named after the dark splotches it formed on its victims' bodies in the 14th century?Show AnswerShare
16scienceWhich Ohio-born inventor held over 1,000 patents, including one for the invention of the motion-picture projector?Show AnswerShare