Physical World
The isthmus of which country connects Costa Rica and Colombia, and therefore, links North America to South America?
Panama
Countries
Physical World
Which long, thin country makes up more than half the coastline of western South America?
Chile
Countries
physical-world
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 was awarded to Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to…" which vitamin?
C
Physical World
Hang Son Doong is noted for being the world’s largest natural cave passage by volume and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What Southeast Asian country is it located in?
VIETNAM
Caves | Heritage Sites
Physical World
Which river, the longest in Ireland, flows for 224 miles from the slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain in County Cavan in the north to the city of Limerick in the south?
Shannon or Abhainn na Sionainne
Rivers
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Also the name for a type of terrestrial gastropod mollusc, in the imperial British Gravitational system, what name is given to a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s2 when a force of one pound is exerted on it, giving a measurement of 32.17405 lb (14.59390 kg) based on standard gravity?
Slug
Physical World
Which Serbian geophysicist gives his name to the long-term cyclical changes in the Earth’s climate caused by variations in the orbit of the Earth over periods of many thousands of years?
Milutin Milankovic
Geology
physical-world
Articulatio genus is the Latin anatomical name for which synovial joint controlled by the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments?
knee
Physical World
What is the name of the process where plants lose water in the atmosphere?
Transpiration
Flowers & Plants
physical-world
What four-letter name is given to very young oysters which in their larval stage float around on the surface layers of water? It can also be a unit of solid angle and an obsolete unit of distance used in astronomy.
Spat