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Question 232: What does the first Moore's law state?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: United States
The number of transistors that can be fitted per square inch doubles every 18 month - 29% (1163)
The speed of microprocessors doubles every year - 15% (618)
The cost of a microprocessor is inversly proportional to the size of its market - 9% (344)
The energy needed by a processor is increased by half for every doubling of performance - 18% (746)
No answer picked: 29% (1162)
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Question 233: Who first observed the moons of Jupiter?
Author: K. - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Johannes Kepler - 13% (533)
Galileo - 48% (1918)
Eratosthenes - 4% (165)
Copernicus - 11% (432)
No answer picked: 24% (950)
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Question 234: What top speed does a TGV (French high speed train) reach in commercial service?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
220 km/h (137 miles/h) - 7% (344)
250 km/h (155 miles/h) - 14% (643)
300 km/h (186 miles/h) - 30% (1410)
380 km/h (236 miles/h) - 11% (523)
No answer picked: 38% (1802)
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Question 235: The Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's biggest when complete. When did the construction start?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
1991 - 14% (644)
1994 - 18% (833)
1997 - 21% (999)
2001 - 10% (471)
No answer picked: 38% (1793)
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Question 236: For research in what field did Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield win the Nobel prize of Medicine in 2003?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - 25% (1150)
The study of AIDS - 12% (566)
The genetic causes of degenerative brain diseases - 16% (769)
The use of laser in open-heart surgery - 10% (453)
No answer picked: 37% (1754)
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Question 237: If a car moving at a speed of 50 km/h has a kinetic energy of x, what kinetic energy will it have when moving at 100 km/h?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Still x - 9% (388)
Square root of two * x - 9% (378)
2x - 28% (1175)
4x - 27% (1129)
No answer picked: 26% (1063)
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Question 238: What is the most massive planet in the Solar System?
Author: K. - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Jupiter - 62% (2527)
Saturn - 7% (269)
Earth - 4% (154)
The Sun - 6% (250)
No answer picked: 22% (904)
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Question 239: Roughtly how long ago did the Sun form?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
One hundred and twenty million years ago - 8% (322)
One billion years ago - 8% (336)
Five billions years ago - 38% (1500)
Twelve billions years ago - 20% (815)
No answer picked: 25% (1007)
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Question 240: Of the following, which is the closest definition of a laser?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
A device that produces coherent light with a narrow range of wavelengths - 44% (1755)
A device that produces extremely intense light - 12% (459)
A device that projects electrons at high speed - 9% (355)
A device that polarize photons, propelling them by magnetic repulsion - 9% (345)
No answer picked: 26% (1050)
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Question 241: For what accomplishment did Einstein receive a Physic Nobel Prize?
Author: K. - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
The discovery of the Law of the Photoelectric Effect - 27% (1121)
The Theory of Special Relativity - 15% (616)
The Theory of General Relativity - 30% (1227)
The discovery of radio-activity - 4% (151)
No answer picked: 24% (971)
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Question 242: What is a prion?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
A neutrally-charged elementary particle - 23% (885)
A protein believed to be responsible for the Creutzfeld-Jakob disease - 31% (1203)
A GPS-controlled Chinese anti-aircraft missile - 5% (204)
A radio-active element used in certain atomic calculators - 13% (510)
No answer picked: 28% (1067)
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Question 243: What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus?
Author: K. - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
The inversion of the sense of gyration of water emptying from a hole as one crosses the equator - 16% (743)
The difference between the geographic & magnetic North Poles - 23% (1034)
The existence of Aurora Borealis above the ocean - 13% (582)
The increase in the sea's level near the equator, due to the increased centrifugal force - 12% (563)
No answer picked: 36% (1645)
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Question 244: What is the number phi equal to?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
sqrt(2)*pi/2 = 2.2214... - 13% (596)
(e^2-1)/4 = 1.5972... - 12% (547)
(1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.6180... - 22% (1024)
e^pi = 23.1407... - 14% (649)
No answer picked: 39% (1830)
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Question 245: Which ancient people is generally (and somewhat controversially) credited with the invention of the zero?
Author: K. - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
The Indians - 37% (1734)
The Egyptians - 14% (639)
The Greeks - 11% (514)
The Chinese - 6% (301)
No answer picked: 32% (1522)
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Question 246: How many pairs of chromosomes does a human usually have?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
18 - 9% (373)
23 - 47% (1939)
36 - 12% (498)
46 - 10% (411)
No answer picked: 22% (933)
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Question 247: Which physical law is behind the idea of a rocket engine?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
The law of gravity - 11% (479)
The action-reaction principle - 51% (2147)
The law on the conservation of energy - 10% (411)
The General Relativity - 4% (187)
No answer picked: 23% (982)
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Question 248: What is the A380?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
The biggest civilian aircraft ever, built by Airbus - 50% (2023)
The code name for AMD's next-generation laptop chips - 7% (289)
The model of the rocket used by China to send its first astronaut in space - 9% (377)
A supersonic military transport aircraft being developed by Boing - 7% (291)
No answer picked: 27% (1085)
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Question 249: What particularity of Europa is of particular interest to scientists?
Author: K. - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
It is believed to be the last remain of a planet having collided with Jupiter - 6% (257)
Its atmosphere is very rich in oxygen - 10% (398)
Rocks covering its surface might date from the beginning of the Solar System - 9% (369)
There is a remote possibility that its ice-covered oceans might harbor life - 46% (1831)
No answer picked: 29% (1160)
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Question 250: What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
12000 km (7458 miles) - 6% (267)
26000 km (16159 miles) - 15% (601)
40000 km (24860 miles) - 38% (1578)
63000 km (39154 miles) - 16% (660)
No answer picked: 25% (1025)
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Question 251: What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
(di)Nitrogen - 58% (2344)
(di)Oxygen - 9% (358)
Water Vapor - 3% (136)
Carbon Dioxide - 9% (350)
No answer picked: 22% (879)
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Question 252: What is El Nino?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
The surname given to Ventura Reyes Prósper - 3% (125)
A major warming of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean - 53% (2141)
A particularly damaging type of hurricane - 13% (512)
The nine forms the Ebola disease can take - 4% (159)
No answer picked: 27% (1112)
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Question 260: How was the NASA probe Climate Orbiter lost in 1999?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: United States
Bad insulation exposed the electronic circuit to extreme heat, fatally damaging it - 10% (484)
A typing mistake when entering coordinates caused it to miss the red planet - 9% (405)
A mixup between Imperial and Metric units in navigation data caused it to approach too near to Mars - 31% (1434)
The probe stopped responding for an unknown reason while it was already in orbit - 12% (552)
No answer picked: 39% (1809)
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Question 264: In the English system of measurement, what was the original value of a yard? (it is now 36 inches)
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
the distance between the king's nose and thumb if he stuck his arm out at a right angle with his thumb pointed up - 36% (1364)
the distance between the front and back legs of the finest horse in the king's stables - 13% (499)
the longest distance the king could cover in one stride - 18% (694)
the distance the king could throw a specific weighted ball called the Canterbury Sphere - 5% (201)
No answer picked: 28% (1058)
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Question 266: Who is the only person to hold a patent on a chemical element?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: United States
Glenn T. Seaborg - 18% (842)
Marie Curie - 29% (1346)
Enrico Fermi - 12% (533)
Albert Ghiorso - 7% (320)
No answer picked: 34% (1582)
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Question 270: The pH scale measures...
Author: Nabeel Bhaiwala - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
The concentration of hydronium ions. - 27% (1250)
The inverse concentration of hydronium ions. - 22% (1023)
The level of molecular activity - 8% (352)
The concentration of NH- ions - 10% (475)
No answer picked: 34% (1588)
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Question 272: Of the following, who did NOT take part in the development of the first steam engines?
Author: K. - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
James Watt - 12% (565)
Thomas Newcomen - 13% (599)
Thomas Savery - 18% (818)
James Hargreaves - 19% (847)
No answer picked: 38% (1738)
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Question 273: Who allegedly invented a mechanism where a pipe fitted in spiral inside a tube will raise water or grain when turned?
Author: K. - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
William Gilbert - 8% (284)
William Bickford - 11% (416)
Ctesibius - 5% (193)
Archimedes - 48% (1794)
No answer picked: 28% (1021)
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Question 274: What is the speed of light?
Author: Aphex - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
3 x 10^8 m/s - 43% (1700)
3 x 10^9 m/s - 15% (608)
3 x 10^10 m/s - 10% (414)
3 x 10^11 m/s - 8% (299)
No answer picked: 24% (945)
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Question 275: Which of these is not a moon of Uranus?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Oberon - 9% (358)
Ariel - 12% (479)
Umbriel - 13% (521)
Titan - 40% (1605)
No answer picked: 25% (1011)
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Question 276: What are the 4 Galilean Satellites?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia - 13% (501)
Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos - 16% (603)
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto - 36% (1380)
Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos - 7% (259)
No answer picked: 28% (1077)
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Question 277: What is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Eros - 14% (656)
Ceres - 34% (1552)
Vesta - 11% (502)
Pallas - 5% (226)
No answer picked: 36% (1636)
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Question 278: How far away from is the Earth from the Sun (on average) ?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
1.5 x 10^8 km (9.32 x 10^7 miles) - 32% (1428)
1.3 x 10^7 km (8.08 x 10^6 miles) - 12% (534)
1.8 x 10^10 km (1.12 x 10^10 miles) - 15% (665)
1.2 x 10^7 km (7.46 x 10^6 miles) - 4% (194)
No answer picked: 36% (1620)
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Question 279: What is the other giant spiral galaxy of the Local Group, along with the Milky Way?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Athena - 5% (252)
Eurypides - 6% (285)
Andromeda - 48% (2260)
Clytemnestra - 4% (204)
No answer picked: 36% (1688)
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Question 280: What is the name of the largest known cellestial body belonging to the Solar system that lies beyond the orbit of Pluto?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Deucalion - 13% (598)
Quaoar - 20% (899)
Varuna - 17% (766)
Chaos - 14% (628)
No answer picked: 37% (1684)
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Question 281: What is the name of Pluto's satellite?
Author: Aphex - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Centaur - 5% (183)
Charon - 38% (1492)
Chronos - 7% (275)
Pluto does not have a satelite - 27% (1082)
No answer picked: 23% (924)
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Question 282: We say a planet is in ________ when that planet is furthest away from the sun.
Author: Aphex - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Perihelion - 20% (946)
Aphelion - 27% (1260)
Apoapsis - 9% (420)
Periapsis - 8% (372)
No answer picked: 36% (1690)
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Question 283: How many planets can be seen with normal 20/20 vision, unaided by telescopes, and unhindered by light polution?
Author: Aphex - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
6 - 41% (1895)
7 - 15% (720)
9 - 5% (238)
8 - 5% (250)
No answer picked: 34% (1573)
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Question 284: Which of these is heavier ?
Author: Aphex - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
A brown dwarf - 14% (536)
A white dwarf - 31% (1231)
Jupiter - 18% (722)
All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter - 12% (468)
No answer picked: 24% (952)
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Question 291: What is the greatest number of electrons that can fit into the first electron shell (also called an energy level)?
Author: Nabeel Bhaiwala - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
2 - 47% (2186)
3 - 6% (288)
6 - 8% (383)
10 - 4% (180)
No answer picked: 35% (1611)
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Question 297: What is the collective name for the asteroids that are co-orbital with Jupiter?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
the Trojans - 24% (1104)
the Achaens - 12% (559)
the Jovenalians - 21% (961)
the Lagrangins - 6% (284)
No answer picked: 36% (1651)
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Question 298: What is the process by which a eukaryotic cell divides into two new cells?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
citesism - 8% (349)
meiosis - 29% (1315)
cytokinesis - 17% (778)
fission - 10% (464)
No answer picked: 36% (1651)
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Question 299: What are the craters on Venus named after?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Roman mythological figures - 25% (1148)
Astronomers - 10% (473)
The home towns of astronomers - 7% (332)
Famous women - 22% (1004)
No answer picked: 35% (1621)
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Question 315: What is the unit of energy?
Author: col - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Newton - 8% (342)
Einstein - 1% (58)
Joule - 55% (2230)
Watt - 12% (496)
No answer picked: 23% (930)
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Question 316: Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction?
Author: col - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Ohm - 15% (565)
Volta - 10% (401)
Faraday - 42% (1619)
Ampere - 10% (372)
No answer picked: 24% (913)
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Question 318: What is the quark combination in a proton?
Author: col - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
uud - 27% (1237)
udd - 17% (771)
usd - 13% (578)
ssd - 6% (280)
No answer picked: 37% (1682)
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Question 319: Refraction is due to:
Author: col - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Light changing frequency - 20% (750)
Light changing speed - 31% (1199)
Light changing brightness - 5% (205)
Light changing phase - 18% (677)
No answer picked: 26% (985)
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Question 320: Which of the following is not a formula for energy?
Author: funxus - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
(mv²)/2 (where m is mass, and v is speed) - 8% (356)
hf (where h is Planck's constant, and f is frequency) - 19% (836)
ma (where m is mass, and a is acceleration) - 34% (1518)
mc² (where m is mass, and c is the speed of light) - 5% (231)
No answer picked: 34% (1523)
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Question 385: Of the following animals, which is the most closely related to humans from an evolutionary point of view?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Cuttlefish - 20% (920)
Sea Anemones - 14% (635)
Starfish - 17% (772)
Ants - 13% (596)
No answer picked: 36% (1629)
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Question 399: What was the diametre of the biggest Kamtchatka crab found?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
56 cm (22 inches) - 7% (326)
105 cm (42 inches) - 19% (844)
180 cm (72 inches) - 27% (1198)
356 cm (140 inches) - 7% (327)
No answer picked: 39% (1747)
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Question 400: If a phenomenom has a periodicity of 6 miliseconds, it has a frequency of:
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
600 mhz - 23% (915)
6 hz - 15% (611)
1.66 hz - 10% (392)
166 hz - 24% (949)
No answer picked: 28% (1097)
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Question 401: How was the length of a meter originally defined?
Author: K. - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
As 0.5 French Royal Yards - 13% (504)
As the distance sound travels in 1/100th of a second - 15% (575)
As the length of a specially made rod of arbitrary length - 23% (914)
As one ten-millioneth of the distance between the pole and the equator - 23% (901)
No answer picked: 26% (1033)
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Question 411: What model of rocket is shown below?
Author: K. - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia) - picture
An Ariane IV - 10% (453)
An Ariane V - 18% (803)
A Delta IV - 18% (810)
A Proton (three-stages model) - 15% (683)
No answer picked: 38% (1684)
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Question 431: What molecule is shown below, in the standard colors for atoms?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World - picture
Carbon Dioxyde - 16% (619)
Water - 48% (1840)
Di-Oxygen - 4% (171)
Nitrogen Dioxyde - 8% (294)
No answer picked: 24% (929)
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Question 452: The mammal pictured below has a number of nearly-unique characteristics for a mammal. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Author: K. - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Others - picture
It has venomous spurs - 14% (666)
It lay eggs - 16% (745)
It can detect the body electricity of its preys - 13% (620)
It is deaf from birth - 21% (995)
No answer picked: 35% (1611)
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Question 457: What element has "H" for symbol?
Author: Stephane - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Helium - 6% (241)
Hydroxide - 3% (131)
Hydrogen - 68% (2757)
Hafnium - 1% (47)
No answer picked: 22% (878)
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Question 461: Given the following standard phase diagram (temperature vs pressure) of compound y, what phase or phases of matter are present at point x?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World - picture
gas only - 12% (523)
liquid and solid - 13% (571)
liquid and gas - 29% (1264)
liquid only - 8% (363)
No answer picked: 38% (1670)
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Question 462: How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?
Author: SeleucusNicator - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
as a digestive enzyme - 12% (514)
as an energy carrier - 38% (1711)
to maintain cell membrane integrity - 10% (449)
as a competitive inhibitor - 3% (139)
No answer picked: 37% (1647)
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Question 464: What is a perfect number?
Author: ShiplordAtvar - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
A number such that the sum of its factors, excluding itself, is greater than itself - 7% (333)
A number such that its only divisors are 1 and itself - 12% (524)
A number such that the sum of its factors, excluding itself, equals itself - 34% (1512)
A number such that it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers - 8% (358)
No answer picked: 39% (1742)
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Question 539: Who is credited with the wave theory of light?
Author: w_mullender - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Newton - 13% (607)
Leibniz - 9% (409)
Huygens - 23% (1022)
Maxwell - 20% (916)
No answer picked: 35% (1577)
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Question 545: Who was the first to propose the uncertainty principle, which is vital to quantum mechanics?
Author: w_mullender - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
De Broglie - 6% (277)
Heisenberg - 40% (1817)
Bohr - 11% (476)
Einstein - 9% (402)
No answer picked: 34% (1534)
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Question 546: Who created the periodic table of the elements?
Author: w_mullender - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Mendeleyev - 49% (1916)
Avogadro - 8% (313)
Dalton - 14% (569)
Bertholet - 5% (191)
No answer picked: 24% (951)
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Question 547: Which of the following is not credited to the Chinese?
Author: w_mullender - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
The invention of rockets - 11% (484)
The discovery of magnetic attraction - 10% (420)
The discovery of electric attraction - 22% (970)
The calculation of pi to the fifth decimal - 21% (907)
No answer picked: 36% (1546)
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Question 599: Truth and beauty were the names of two sorts of quarks, what were the other four?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
up, down, left and right - 7% (312)
strange, charm, up and down - 30% (1293)
top, bottom, left and right - 5% (223)
love, faith, spirit and soul - 18% (807)
No answer picked: 40% (1730)
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Question 600: Who sponsored the most widely adopted school computer in the UK in the early 1980's?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Acorn - 10% (452)
Apple - 19% (819)
International Business Machines - 17% (734)
British Broadcasting Corporation - 15% (681)
No answer picked: 39% (1729)
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Question 601: What does the acronym ASCII stand for?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
American Standard Coding for International Interchange - 9% (303)
Automated Standard Coding for Information Interchange - 16% (524)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange - 37% (1220)
Automated Standard Code for International Interchange - 9% (297)
No answer picked: 30% (998)
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Question 608: Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010?
Author: Rich Hill - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
3 - 11% (368)
68 - 10% (341)
42 - 31% (1037)
101,010 - 16% (528)
No answer picked: 31% (1040)
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Question 609: Euclid's 'The Elements' is a book about what?
Author: Derrick Pallas - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Earth, Water, Wind, Fire - 23% (763)
Geometry and Reasoning - 28% (912)
Atomic Structure and Properties - 13% (430)
The Scientific Method - 4% (141)
No answer picked: 31% (1019)
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Question 611: What is a micro-kernel?
Author: Derrick Pallas - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
A new breed of genetically engineered corn - 9% (284)
A computer operating system that provides a minimal set of services - 37% (1187)
A theory in fundamental particle physics involving immutable laws - 14% (438)
A philosophical premise that says that one should have as few axioms or assumptions as possible - 6% (200)
No answer picked: 34% (1104)
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Question 612: During WW2, the British created a machine called Colossus to break the German Fish cypher. Who was not involved in the project?
Author: Derrick Pallas - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Albert Small - 9% (365)
Max Newman - 14% (604)
Alan Turing - 20% (844)
Tommy Flowers - 15% (629)
No answer picked: 42% (1761)
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Question 628: From which country is Linus Torvalds, writer of the Linux kernel?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Finland - 27% (854)
Sweden - 28% (885)
United Kingdom - 8% (243)
United States - 5% (145)
No answer picked: 32% (979)
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Question 630: Which of these standards is not used for connecting daughter boards to computers' mother board?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
VESA - 16% (659)
ISA - 13% (526)
PCI - 14% (571)
DMA - 16% (681)
No answer picked: 41% (1720)
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Question 631: Which is not a computer graphics file standard?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Joint Photographic Experts Group - 12% (376)
Graphics Interchange Format - 7% (214)
Pictorial Binary Encoded Material - 41% (1312)
Tagged Image File Format - 9% (272)
No answer picked: 32% (1004)
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Question 633: Who owns the trademark C(ompact) D(isc)?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Sony - 36% (1130)
Philips - 18% (564)
Toshiba - 5% (146)
Microsoft - 14% (433)
No answer picked: 27% (861)
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Question 634: Which of the following companies has not developed an 'Office suite' of programs for the Windows OS?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
Lotus - 14% (439)
Microsoft - 12% (358)
Corel - 16% (495)
Oracle - 27% (828)
No answer picked: 32% (992)
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Question 636: Which computer language was originally not interpreted?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Perl - 9% (397)
Python - 14% (633)
C - 24% (1028)
Basic - 15% (670)
No answer picked: 38% (1645)
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Question 638: Which of these is a self propagating, self replicating computer program?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Virus - 35% (1115)
Worm - 21% (671)
Trojan - 12% (390)
Backdoor - 2% (80)
No answer picked: 30% (963)
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Question 670: Who was the only US Astronaut to fly aboard Gemini, Apollo and the STS (Shuttle), including two maiden flights?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: United States
Neil Armstrong - 19% (792)
Wally Schirra - 8% (337)
John Young - 22% (889)
Eugene Cernan - 10% (415)
No answer picked: 40% (1647)
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Question 671: Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what?
Author: David Bryant - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
asteroid - 14% (410)
planetary core - 8% (239)
dust nebulae - 15% (451)
meteorites - 28% (850)
No answer picked: 35% (1033)
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Question 672: Which of these was NOT the name of a US Spacecraft?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Glamorous Glennis - 25% (776)
Molly Brown - 21% (654)
Sigma 7 - 13% (387)
Aurora 7 - 8% (244)
No answer picked: 33% (999)
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Question 673: Which Space mission was described by James Lovell and Neil Armstrong as 'The most significant in the history of US spaceflight'?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Apollo 13 - 25% (1047)
Apollo 8 - 24% (977)
Apollo 14 - 6% (263)
Gemini 4 - 7% (291)
No answer picked: 38% (1550)
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Question 674: Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?
Author: David Bryant - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Percival Lowell - 17% (510)
James Christy - 19% (564)
Clyde Tombaugh - 16% (472)
James van Allen - 15% (440)
No answer picked: 34% (1030)
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Question 675: What potential source of danger to space travellers was discovered by this Scientist?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World - picture
Micrometeorites between the Moon and Earth - 10% (390)
A torus of energetic charged particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field - 23% (913)
Deep dust fields in some lunar maria - 7% (267)
The solar wind - 18% (734)
No answer picked: 42% (1672)
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Question 676: What has been found to be special about the star BPM 37093 in Centaurus?
Author: - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
It is the densest White Dwarf yet discovered - 15% (602)
It has a core of solid diamond - 20% (822)
It is currently the closest star to the Earth (apart from the Sun!) - 12% (476)
It has been shown to possess a planetary system - 11% (446)
No answer picked: 43% (1741)
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Question 677: Which British Astronomer has a Lunar crater named after him?
Author: - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Sir Bernard Lovell - 16% (660)
Henry Brinton - 10% (401)
Sir Fred Hoyle - 17% (694)
Sir Patrick Moore - 16% (673)
No answer picked: 41% (1696)
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Question 678: Sikhote-Alin is a well-known name to Space enthusiasts. But who or what was he/ she / it?
Author: David Bryant - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
An iron meteorite that exploded over Russia in 1947 - 19% (767)
A Russian space scientist, who designed the Buran space shuttle - 13% (538)
A pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation of Cepheus - 16% (641)
The location of Russia's largest terrestrial telescope - 9% (363)
No answer picked: 43% (1769)
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Question 679: Which famous Astronomer had a gold prosthetic nose, having lost the real one in a duel?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
William Herschel - 13% (546)
Galileo - 10% (415)
Nicolas Copernicus - 16% (659)
Tycho Brahe - 21% (888)
No answer picked: 40% (1643)
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Question 681: Which of these aircraft designers was responsible for the Hawker Hurricane fighter plane?
Author: David Bryant - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Sir Frank Whittle - 13% (528)
Reginald J Mitchell - 16% (657)
Sir Sidney Camm - 16% (681)
Sir Barnes Wallace - 11% (460)
No answer picked: 44% (1862)
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Question 684: Which of the following are all leptons?
Author: Mark Fischler - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
electron, positron, photon - 11% (435)
proton, deuteron, neutron - 10% (398)
tau, muon, electron - 23% (932)
electron, proton, neutron - 15% (582)
No answer picked: 42% (1665)
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Question 694: Which mathematician would you associate with the famous 'Last Theorem' in Number Theory ?
Author: Sangram Raje - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Others
Leonard Euler - 11% (335)
Pythagoras - 23% (670)
Pierre de Fermat - 24% (703)
Euclid - 10% (293)
No answer picked: 32% (924)
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Question 774: What is the sun expected to become at the end of its life?
Author: Andrew Somvilaysack - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Others
A black dwarf - 20% (575)
A white dwarf - 28% (798)
A red dwarf - 19% (545)
A yellow dwarf - 4% (117)
No answer picked: 28% (800)
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Question 907: What bridge shook itself to destruction leading to the new science of wind engineering?
Author: Cara - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: United States
Tacoma Narrows Bridge - 28% (1029)
Causey Gap Bridge - 12% (441)
Sunshine Skyway - 12% (426)
Phillipe Ridge Causeway - 8% (286)
No answer picked: 41% (1497)
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Question 908: Richard Feynman is a famous:
Author: Cara - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Chemist - 12% (318)
Bioligist - 12% (321)
Physicist - 33% (875)
Engineer - 9% (228)
No answer picked: 33% (877)
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Question 909: Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?
Author: Cara - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Edison - 13% (509)
Tesla - 35% (1345)
Maxwell - 12% (466)
Einstien - 3% (104)
No answer picked: 37% (1444)
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Question 927: What are the four fundamental interactions between particles?
Author: RCSC - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Electromagnetic, kinetic, potential, nuclear - 13% (463)
Electromagnetic, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), gravity - 31% (1154)
Magnetic, ionic, elecric, gravity - 12% (431)
Gravity, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), ionic, magnetic - 6% (237)
No answer picked: 38% (1418)
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Question 928: What are currently the two ways to achieve temperature and pressure required to initiate nuclear fusion?
Author: RCSC - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Gravity, magnetic confinement - 11% (253)
Electromagnetic confinement, electrical confinement - 17% (400)
Magnetic confinement, Inertial confinement - 15% (370)
Nuclear fission, gravity - 25% (589)
No answer picked: 33% (783)
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Question 931: Which extra solar planet is currently known as orbiting a brown dwarf?
Author: RCSC - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
HD 224693B - 13% (457)
Gliese 777 AC - 20% (720)
2M1207B - 16% (580)
55 Cancri AE - 8% (279)
No answer picked: 43% (1551)
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Question 960: How many dwarf planets are currently recognised by the International Astronomical Union in our solar system?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
0 - 13% (301)
2 - 25% (603)
4 - 18% (421)
5 - 13% (301)
No answer picked: 31% (743)
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Question 962: What does 'SAS' stand for (when related to computer hard disks)?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Serial Attached SCSI - 15% (547)
Server Attached SATA - 18% (657)
Serial Attached SATA - 20% (712)
SCSI Attached SATA - 5% (196)
No answer picked: 41% (1473)
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Question 966: What does EPROM stand for (in relation to computers)?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Erasable Programmable Real On-core Memory - 8% (267)
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory - 41% (1450)
Easily Programmable Real On-core Memory - 7% (245)
Easily Programmable Read Once Memory - 4% (146)
No answer picked: 40% (1419)
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Question 971: To which country does the .ie domain suffix belong?
Author: Johann Bryant - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
India - 10% (245)
Indonesia - 19% (444)
Eire - 23% (530)
Israel - 16% (367)
No answer picked: 33% (768)
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Question 1125: What is a Lagrange point?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
An orbital spot where a small object will remain stationary with respect to two large gravitational objects - 27% (844)
The vertical angle at which a spinning object will become unstable and fall over - 12% (363)
A sharp-pointed fulcrum where the slope from the point is equal in all directions - 11% (347)
The temperature for a liquid at which no amount of pressure will prevent boiling - 9% (286)
No answer picked: 41% (1303)
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Question 1136: What are the four bases found in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
oxygen, phosphate, ribose, cytosine - 9% (145)
purine, pyrimadine, ribose, uracil - 5% (89)
guanine, cytosine, adenine, thymine - 38% (625)
ribose, oxygen, nucleic acid, phosphate - 19% (315)
No answer picked: 29% (483)
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Question 1138: In the name of the disc type, what does CD stand for?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
compressed disk format - 2% (36)
computer disk - 3% (52)
compressed data - 2% (40)
compact disc - 66% (1115)
No answer picked: 26% (443)
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Question 1140: What is one difference between RNA and DNA?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
DNA has two strands while RNA contains three strands. - 13% (383)
RNA uses uracil as a base instead of thymine. - 29% (859)
In RNA, the pattern of nucleotides is in reverse order. - 9% (267)
RNA is only found in cell walls or membranes. - 11% (310)
No answer picked: 38% (1097)
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Question 1141: Which is not one of the six classical simple machines?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
lever - 5% (164)
hinge - 30% (907)
wedge - 12% (358)
screw - 16% (489)
No answer picked: 37% (1104)
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Question 1142: Which one has explored the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Jean Luc - 7% (203)
Jacques Piccard - 24% (708)
Jules Verne - 10% (303)
Jacques Cousteau - 19% (551)
No answer picked: 39% (1151)
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Question 1143: According to the Nyquist-Shannon theory:
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
to double an amplifier's loudness, you must quadruple the power supplied - 11% (326)
doubling the density of a medium halves the speed of sound through that medium - 17% (492)
to capture a signal, the sample frequency must be at least double the signal frequency - 22% (647)
any telephone or telegraph system based on wires requires at least two of them - 6% (170)
No answer picked: 43% (1253)
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Question 1144: Which of these is a star?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
Andromeda - 14% (214)
Antares - 24% (378)
Ceres - 18% (281)
Orion - 16% (254)
No answer picked: 28% (429)
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Question 1145: Which of these is an example of an extremophile?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
Elephas maximus - 11% (325)
Sequoiadendron giganteum - 12% (367)
Architeuthis martensi - 11% (328)
Bacillus infernus - 23% (690)
No answer picked: 43% (1280)
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Question 1146: How many more times heavier is the Sun than the Earth?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
35 - 3% (52)
3500 - 8% (126)
350,000 - 33% (524)
35,000,000 - 28% (446)
No answer picked: 27% (430)
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Question 1147: Brass is an alloy of which two metals?
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
gold and copper - 6% (101)
gold and tin - 3% (52)
copper and tin - 29% (450)
copper and zinc - 31% (478)
No answer picked: 31% (486)
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Question 1149: Neanderthals are named for the place where their bones were discovered, which was a:
Author: Bill Donovan - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
river bed - 10% (161)
cave - 26% (405)
mountain top - 12% (182)
valley - 21% (328)
No answer picked: 31% (474)
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Question 1260: Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'?
Author: Rudradeep Mukherjee - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Copper - 31% (940)
Chlorine - 5% (165)
Cerium - 23% (695)
Cobalt - 6% (178)
No answer picked: 35% (1060)
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Question 1441:
Author: AKSHAY - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1446:
Author: naroz - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: United States
Not confirmed yet
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1449: what is science?
Author: g fareed - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Others - picture
Not confirmed yet
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1450: The animal which has a outer skeleton?
Author: mandar.m - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
MONKEY - 0% (0)
DEER - 0% (0)
GORRILA - 0% (0)
SNAIL - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1464: what was the seven years'War called in the American colonies?
Author: KAREN WHEELER - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Black Africa
Not confirmed yet
king phillp's war - 0% (0)
Pontiac' Rebellion - 0% (0)
The war of 1812 - 0% (0)
The French and indian war - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1465: what was the seven years'War called in the American colonies?
Author: KAREN WHEELER - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Black Africa
Not confirmed yet
king phillp's war - 0% (0)
Pontiac' Rebellion - 0% (0)
The war of 1812 - 0% (0)
The French and indian war - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1466: Who discovered matter waves?
Author: naresh - Category: Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Not confirmed yet
albert einstein - 0% (0)
lemaitre de broglie - 0% (0)
louis de broglie - 0% (0)
planck - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1467: if i am a bird, what dog would i be?
Author: conor diss - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
Not confirmed yet
tiger - 0% (0)
wolf - 0% (0)
puppy - 0% (0)
tutle - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1476: which is closest to earth
Author: William - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
Mars - 0% (0)
Venus - 0% (0)
Makemake - 0% (0)
Mars and Venus tied - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1480: Father of chemistry
Author: Wanglen sairem - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
Not confirmed yet
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1482: what was the last apollo mission?
Author: Kian Karimi - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: United States
Not confirmed yet
17 - 0% (0)
18 - 0% (0)
19 - 0% (0)
20 - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1488: In real process Entropy of the world ..
Author: Vaibhav diwan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
Remain same - 0% (0)
Increases - 0% (0)
Decreases - 0% (0)
Remain constant - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1489: What is triple point of Water
Author: Vaibhav diwan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
0 degree centrigrade - 0% (0)
0 degree ferenhite - 0% (0)
0 degree kelvin - 0% (0)
100 degree centigrade - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1491: which is the most powerful radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum?
Author: sreelekshmi - Category: Science
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East) - picture
Not confirmed yet
radio waves - 0% (0)
gamma rays - 0% (0)
infrared rays - 0% (0)
ultraviolet rays - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1507: Generation of electricity by mechanical vibration is known as
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 2/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
magnetic effect - 0% (0)
photo electric effect - 0% (0)
piezo electric effect - 0% (0)
incndescence - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1508: What is the unit of flux in CGS system?
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Others
Not confirmed yet
webber - 0% (0)
maxwell - 0% (0)
Telsa - 0% (0)
Farad - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1509: What is the unit of flux in CGS system?
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: Others
Not confirmed yet
webber - 0% (0)
maxwell - 0% (0)
Telsa - 0% (0)
Farad - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1510: The force required to eliminate residual magnetism is known as
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
coercive force - 0% (0)
centrepetal force - 0% (0)
Force of attraction - 0% (0)
cenrefuegal force - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1511: The force required to eliminate residual magnetism is known as
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
coercive force - 0% (0)
centrepetal force - 0% (0)
Force of attraction - 0% (0)
cenrefuegal force - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1512: In a resonance circuit
Author: jJAYARAJ K JOSEPH - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
Not confirmed yet
inductance and resistance are equal - 0% (0)
current and inductance are equal - 0% (0)
Inductive reactance and cpacitive reactance are equal - 0% (0)
Inductive reactance and cpacitive reactance are not equal - 0% (0)
No answer picked: 0% (0)
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Question 1522: WHICH SYSTEM TELLS THE EXACT POSITION OF ANYTHING ON THE EARTH?
Author: AIMAL WAQAS - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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ROUTER - 0% (0)
GPS - 0% (0)
SWITCH - 0% (0)
GPRS - 0% (0)
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Question 1559: oceania
Author: nick - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
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its the hottes t place on the world - 0% (0)
the beach - 0% (0)
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Question 1565: which frist asia novel
Author: sourav kundu - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
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Question 1567: What is the new exoplanet discovered in the Solar System of Alpha Centuria A,B and C
Author: Aditya C. - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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Eros - 0% (0)
Charon - 0% (0)
Io - 0% (0)
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Question 1568: What is the new exoplanet discovered in the Solar System of Alpha Centuria A,B and C
Author: Aditya C. - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World
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Eros - 0% (0)
Charon - 0% (0)
Io - 0% (0)
None of the above! - 0% (0)
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Question 1569: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY ?
Author: - Category: Science
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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2009 - 0% (0)
2011 - 0% (0)
2010 - 0% (0)
2008 - 0% (0)
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Question 1573: how many oceans are there
Author: art - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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Question 1588: In a radioactive decay, neither the atomic number changes.
Which of the following particles is emitted in the decay?
Author: manoj - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: Asia (except Middle-East)
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Proton - 0% (0)
Neutron - 0% (0)
Electron - 0% (0)
Photon - 0% (0)
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Question 1591:
Author: sumanth - Category: Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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Question 1592: who is the first women to go to space
Author: pandy - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: United States
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Question 1615: What is the original liquid used to pasteurization by Louis Pastuer?
Author: John Hernandez - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 5/5 - Zone: World
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Milk - 0% (0)
Beer - 0% (0)
Water - 0% (0)
Vaccines - 0% (0)
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Question 1621: Known as the father of modern computer?
Author: John Hernandez - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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Charles Babbage - 0% (0)
Harrold Copperfield - 0% (0)
Steve Jobs - 0% (0)
Bill Gates - 0% (0)
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Question 1630: what universe
Author: Athirah - Category: Pure Astronomy
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: United States
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earth - 0% (0)
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Question 1634: whats the capital city of kenya
Author: Fauz - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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nigeria - 0% (0)
abuja - 0% (0)
nirobi - 0% (0)
harare - 0% (0)
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Question 1638: which of the following is the chemical formula of Saccharose or table sugar?
Author: Mona Khan - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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C6H12O6 - 0% (0)
C22H12O11 - 0% (0)
C12H22O11 - 0% (0)
C14H12O16 - 0% (0)
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Question 1672: Who is given E=mc2
Author: Prajapati Rajesh - Category: Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: World - picture
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Eienstin - 0% (0)
Rudder Ford - 0% (0)
De-Brogly - 0% (0)
None - 0% (0)
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Question 1684: by 1907 europe had been divided into hostile armed camps. explain the circumstances that led to this situation.
Author: MARTIN TRIGGER LUHANGA - Category: History of Technology
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: Black Africa
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Question 1688: how much country in the world
Author: Santosh jadhav - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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Question 1707: In approximately how much time does light reach earth?
Author: Sanjeev Punj - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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10 - 0% (0)
8 - 0% (0)
15 - 0% (0)
1 - 0% (0)
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Question 1709: what is the speed of light
Author: owessss - Category: Science
Difficulty: 3/5 - Zone: World
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3crore m/s - 0% (0)
34 - 0% (0)
44 - 0% (0)
none of these - 0% (0)
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Question 1739: Who is the writer of the book'playing it my way'?
Author: - Category: Science
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Question 1744: Who is the 16th president of the Philippines?
Author: - Category: Science
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Emilio aguinaldo - 0% (0)
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Question 1745: Who is the 16th president of the Philippines?
Author: - Category: Science
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Emilio aguinaldo - 0% (0)
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Question 1759: which is the first country to send the probe to the dark side of the moon?
Author: - Category: General Astronomy
Difficulty: 1/5 - Zone: World
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USA - 0% (0)
UK - 0% (0)
Russia - 0% (0)
China - 0% (0)
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Question 1763: Which English physician was known to have located cholera at the broad street pump?
Author: - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
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John Snow - 0% (0)
Edward Jenner - 0% (0)
William Harvey - 0% (0)
Thomas Neill Cream - 0% (0)
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Question 1764: Which English physician was known to have located cholera at the broad street pump?
Author: - Category: History of Science
Difficulty: 4/5 - Zone: Europe (Minus Russia)
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John Snow - 0% (0)
Edward Jenner - 0% (0)
William Harvey - 0% (0)
Thomas Neill Cream - 0% (0)
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