Science Quiz Round 4 — Answers

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  1. True: An autosome is any non-sex chromosome
  2. True: Molybdenum (Mo) is an anagram of 'noble dummy'
  3. True: The femur is the thigh bone
  4. True: Red blood cells (erythrocytes) carry oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues
  5. True: Ears and noses keep growing through adulthood
  6. True: The quote is from Albert Einstein (1941)
  7. True: Pure water freezes at 0 °C at 1 atm
  8. True: Protons and neutrons sit in the nucleus; electrons orbit it
  9. False: Sound travels about four times faster through water than through air
  10. True: The Sun is about 74% hydrogen and 24% helium
  11. False: Lightning can strike the same place many times
  12. True: Humans and chimpanzees share roughly 98-99% of their DNA
  13. True: A light-year is the distance light travels in one year
  14. False: Sharks are fish, not mammals
  15. True: Diamond ranks 10 on the Mohs hardness scale
  16. False: Humans have more than five senses
  17. True: William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 using a telescope
  18. True: Historically sulphuric acid was called 'oil of vitriol'
  19. True: Electrons have a negative charge; protons have a positive charge
  20. False: Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun