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1. The name of this gas comes from Greek for "water-former." Hydrogen Nitrogen Oxygen Helium

2. He was the first scientist to define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. Friedrich Kekulé Henry Cavendish Linus Pauling Arrhenius

3. In the Principles of Chemistry (1869), Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeléev published the first Periodic Table. How many elements were there in this original list? 72 44 100 63

4. What is the book "Mathematical Syntaxis" better known as? Almagest De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium Tetrabiblos Principia Mathematica

5. "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let ________ be! and all was light." Newton Halley The sun Galilio

6. Which of the following does not fall under the "four humours", an imbalance in them believed to be the cause of diseases, in ancient times? Black bile Yellow bile Saliva Blood

7. James Phipps, as a human guinea pig, assisted in the developement of the vaccination for __________ ? Polio Malaria Smallpox Plague

8. Who was the first scientist to accurately measure the diameter of earth? Ptolemy Tycho Brahe Anaxagoras Eratosthenes

9. What would you associate H.M.S Beagle with? Bermuda Triangle Icebergs Galapagos Komodo dragons

10. One of them did not get the Nobel Prize, despite having made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA. Who? Francis Crick James Watson Rosalind Franklin Maurice Wilkins