1 - 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

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

0

2

4

5

3 - 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?

Still x

Square root of two * x

2x

4x

4 - What particularity of Europa is of particular interest to scientists?

It is believed to be the last remain of a planet having collided with Jupiter

Its atmosphere is very rich in oxygen

Rocks covering its surface might date from the beginning of the Solar System

There is a remote possibility that its ice-covered oceans might harbor life

5 - 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

6 - Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction?

Ohm

Volta

Faraday

Ampere

7 - Who created the periodic table of the elements?

Mendeleyev

Avogadro

Dalton

Bertholet

8 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites?

Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia

Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos

Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos

9 - 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

10 - Euclid's 'The Elements' is a book about what?

Earth, Water, Wind, Fire

Geometry and Reasoning

Atomic Structure and Properties

The Scientific Method

11 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth?

12000 km (7458 miles)

26000 km (16159 miles)

40000 km (24860 miles)

63000 km (39154 miles)

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

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

13 - In the English system of measurement, what was the original value of a yard? (it is now 36 inches)

the distance between the king's nose and thumb if he stuck his arm out at a right angle with his thumb pointed up

the distance between the front and back legs of the finest horse in the king's stables

the longest distance the king could cover in one stride

the distance the king could throw a specific weighted ball called the Canterbury Sphere

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

600 mhz

6 hz

1.66 hz

166 hz

15 - What is a prion?

A neutrally-charged elementary particle

A protein believed to be responsible for the Creutzfeld-Jakob disease

A GPS-controlled Chinese anti-aircraft missile

A radio-active element used in certain atomic calculators

16 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?

Percival Lowell

James Christy

Clyde Tombaugh

James van Allen

17 - Who allegedly invented a mechanism where a pipe fitted in spiral inside a tube will raise water or grain when turned?

William Gilbert

William Bickford

Ctesibius

Archimedes

18 - What is the sun expected to become at the end of its life?

A black dwarf

A white dwarf

A red dwarf

A yellow dwarf

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

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

20 - What are the four bases found in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?

oxygen, phosphate, ribose, cytosine

purine, pyrimadine, ribose, uracil

guanine, cytosine, adenine, thymine

ribose, oxygen, nucleic acid, phosphate

 

  

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