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PUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST
Now with more quantum conundra!
1. Which class of warm-blooded animal uses seven air sacs and nonexpanding lungs to breathe?
2. ENIAC, installed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, was one of the first general-purpose what?
3. Once the end of the Silk Road, the Syrian city of Aleppo went into decline in 1869 after the digging of what?
4. Which famous express passenger train service between Edinburgh and London, begun in 1863, o cially gained its name in 1924?
5. What’s the name of Scotland’s second-largest loch by surface area, but largest by water volume? 6. How many horns does Rhinoceros unicornis have? 7. Literally meaning “flying carriage”, the quirky French invention called a charvolant is a carriage pulled along by what?
8. Which minor gemstone is totally black, and has an organic origin (ie was formed from a once-living thing)? 9. The Mycenaean Period of Ancient Greece is the setting for a cycle of epic poems about which city? 10. The first letter in English from an indigenous Australian, thanking a lady for her care while he was in England, was written in 1796 by whom?