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Educational resources: Sample quiz questions
The first answer is the correct one in each case.
 Human cells have 46 chromosomes, and cell division by both mitosis and meiosis can occur within the human body. Which of the following shows the correct chromosome number after both mitosis and meiosis take place?
- mitosis - 46, meiosis - 23
- mitosis - 23, meiosis - 46
- mitosis - 46, meiosis - 92
- mitosis - 92, meiosis - 46
 How could one test a hydrocarbon to see whether it is an alkane or an alkene?
- Alkenes turn bromine water colourless
- Alkenes are always heavier
- Alkanes undergo addition reactions
- Alkanes turn bromine water colourless
 Making curves in wood can be problematic. Simply cutting from solid wood causes weaknesses. Which process could be used to overcome this and produce curved wood?
- Laminating
- Distortion
- Planishing
- Drawing
 What is a rhetorical question?
- A question asked for effect, not requiring an answer
- A question requiring an answer
- A difficult question to answer
- A trick question
 What is the line on a map that joins places having the same amount of rainfall?
- Isohyet
- Isobar
- Isotherm
- Isostatic
 When was the Berlin Wall built?
 What does MODEM stand for?
- Modulation-demodulation
- Modelling emulator
- Modern e-mail processor
- Mode manager
 There are ten chocolates in a box. Four of them are plain and the rest are milk. You pick one without looking and eat it. You pick a second chocolate without looking and eat it. What is the probability that you ate two plain chocolates?
 What is the term for instrumental music that depicts a scene or painting or interprets a story?
- Programme music
- Opera
- Patronage
- Romanticism
 Which of the following correctly describes Hooke's law?
- Extension is directly proportional to the load
- Extension is not directly proportional to the load
- Extension is indirectly proportional to the load
- Extension is inversely proportional to the load
 What are tefillin?
- Small leather boxes containing passages from the Torah
- Four-sided spinning tops used for a game at Hanukkah
- Prayer shawls with fringes
- The fringes on the corners of the prayer shawl
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