1 - What is the most massive planet in the Solar System?

Jupiter

Saturn

Earth

The Sun

2 - 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

3 - Which of the following companies has not developed an 'Office suite' of programs for the Windows OS?

Lotus

Microsoft

Corel

Oracle

4 - Refraction is due to:

Light changing frequency

Light changing speed

Light changing brightness

Light changing phase

5 - Who created the periodic table of the elements?

Mendeleyev

Avogadro

Dalton

Bertholet

6 - Who first observed the moons of Jupiter?

Johannes Kepler

Galileo

Eratosthenes

Copernicus

7 - Of the following, which is the closest definition of a laser?

A device that produces coherent light with a narrow range of wavelengths

A device that produces extremely intense light

A device that projects electrons at high speed

A device that polarize photons, propelling them by magnetic repulsion

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

0

2

4

5

9 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

gold and copper

gold and tin

copper and tin

copper and zinc

10 - Who owns the trademark C(ompact) D(isc)?

Sony

Philips

Toshiba

Microsoft

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

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

12 - What molecule is shown below, in the standard colors for atoms?

Carbon Dioxyde Water Di-Oxygen Nitrogen Dioxyde

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

Oberon

Ariel

Umbriel

Titan

14 - 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

15 - Which of these is a self propagating, self replicating computer program?

Virus

Worm

Trojan

Backdoor

16 - 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

17 - What element has "H" for symbol?

Helium

Hydroxide

Hydrogen

Hafnium

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 - To which country does the .ie domain suffix belong?

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

20 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010?

3

68

42

101,010

 

  

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