The Observer science quiz 2013: part 2

Do you know your HeLa cells from your Higgs boson? Take our annual test and find out• Link to answers at the bottom of the page• Part 1 of the quiz is here• Part 3 of the quiz is hereIN THE NEWS21. Giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne) are the longest bony fish alive, thought to reach up to 17 metres long, and normally living at depths of 1000 metres. On which American state's beaches were two of these fishes found washed up?22. DNA testing confirmed furniture store owner Michael Ibsen as a living descendant of Richard III, whose remains were found beneath a car park in Leicester, but in which country was Ibsen born?23. What form of cancer, according to new figures released this year, has now become the most lethal form of the disease for women in the UK?24. A letter by which Nobel laureate sold at a New York auction house for £3.45m?25. What is the name of the largest subglacial lake on Antarctica, buried beneath 2km of ice for 4m years, in which Russian scientists discovered bacterial life?26. September saw the millionth tonne of earth removed from Crossrail, the largest engineering project in Britain. How many tonnes of earth are expected to have been excavated from the tunnels and stations by the time the project is completed in 2018?27. The National Institutes of Health announced that genetic research based on HeLa cells will now acknowledge the woman from whose body they were taken in 1951. What was her name?28. Data collected by the European Space Agency's Planck s...
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