1 - Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what?

asteroid

planetary core

dust nebulae

meteorites

2 - How was the length of a meter originally defined?

As 0.5 French Royal Yards

As the distance sound travels in 1/100th of a second

As the length of a specially made rod of arbitrary length

As one ten-millioneth of the distance between the pole and the equator

3 - Which of these was NOT the name of a US Spacecraft?

Glamorous Glennis

Molly Brown

Sigma 7

Aurora 7

4 - What is the unit of energy?

Newton

Einstein

Joule

Watt

5 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?

Percival Lowell

James Christy

Clyde Tombaugh

James van Allen

6 - If a phenomenom has a periodicity of 6 miliseconds, it has a frequency of:

600 mhz

6 hz

1.66 hz

166 hz

7 - Refraction is due to:

Light changing frequency

Light changing speed

Light changing brightness

Light changing phase

8 - What does the acronym ASCII stand for?

American Standard Coding for International Interchange

Automated Standard Coding for Information Interchange

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Automated Standard Code for International Interchange

9 - In the name of the disc type, what does CD stand for?

compressed disk format

computer disk

compressed data

compact disc

10 - How many dwarf planets are currently recognised by the International Astronomical Union in our solar system?

0

2

4

5

11 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

gold and copper

gold and tin

copper and tin

copper and zinc

12 - Which mathematician would you associate with the famous 'Last Theorem' in Number Theory ?

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

13 - Roughtly how long ago did the Sun form?

One hundred and twenty million years ago

One billion years ago

Five billions years ago

Twelve billions years ago

14 - What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

(di)Nitrogen

(di)Oxygen

Water Vapor

Carbon Dioxide

15 - Who created the periodic table of the elements?

Mendeleyev

Avogadro

Dalton

Bertholet

16 - What does the first Moore's law state?

The number of transistors that can be fitted per square inch doubles every 18 month

The speed of microprocessors doubles every year

The cost of a microprocessor is inversly proportional to the size of its market

The energy needed by a processor is increased by half for every doubling of performance

17 - Which of these is not a moon of Uranus?

Oberon

Ariel

Umbriel

Titan

18 - What is the A380?

The biggest civilian aircraft ever, built by Airbus

The code name for AMD's next-generation laptop chips

The model of the rocket used by China to send its first astronaut in space

A supersonic military transport aircraft being developed by Boing

19 - Which is not a computer graphics file standard?

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Graphics Interchange Format

Pictorial Binary Encoded Material

Tagged Image File Format

20 - What is a micro-kernel?

A new breed of genetically engineered corn

A computer operating system that provides a minimal set of services

A theory in fundamental particle physics involving immutable laws

A philosophical premise that says that one should have as few axioms or assumptions as possible

 

  

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