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Who invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer?

Galileo Galilei
Anders Celsius
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
William Kelvin
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him
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Galileo Galilei
Anders Celsius
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
William Kelvin
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Who was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage? (sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans)

James Cook
Vitus Bering
Roald Amundsen
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After whom is Queen Maud Land in Antarctica named?

Dutch queen
Norwegian queen
Russian queen
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What has Roy Walford studied through his life?

Aging processes and the possibility of extending life
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In what temperatures is the superconductivity observed?

very low
very high
in every temperature
it depends on the material used