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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
Mythical queen of the Amazons

What has Roy Walford studied through his life?

Aging processes and the possibility of extending life
He was looking for a universal cancer cure
The possibility of creating a brain-computer connection
Content of 'Noncoding DNA'

In what temperatures is the superconductivity observed?

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