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

Carbon Dioxyde Water Di-Oxygen Nitrogen Dioxyde

2 - What is the unit of energy?

Newton

Einstein

Joule

Watt

3 - What is the name of Pluto's satellite?

Centaur

Charon

Chronos

Pluto does not have a satelite

4 - Which of these is a star?

Andromeda

Antares

Ceres

Orion

5 - Neanderthals are named for the place where their bones were discovered, which was a:

river bed

cave

mountain top

valley

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

Oberon

Ariel

Umbriel

Titan

7 - 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

8 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?

Percival Lowell

James Christy

Clyde Tombaugh

James van Allen

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

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

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

compressed disk format

computer disk

compressed data

compact disc

11 - For what accomplishment did Einstein receive a Physic Nobel Prize?

The discovery of the Law of the Photoelectric Effect

The Theory of Special Relativity

The Theory of General Relativity

The discovery of radio-activity

12 - How many pairs of chromosomes does a human usually have?

18

23

36

46

13 - Who first observed the moons of Jupiter?

Johannes Kepler

Galileo

Eratosthenes

Copernicus

14 - 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

15 - What element has "H" for symbol?

Helium

Hydroxide

Hydrogen

Hafnium

16 - 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

17 - Which of these is heavier ?

A brown dwarf

A white dwarf

Jupiter

All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter

18 - Which physical law is behind the idea of a rocket engine?

The law of gravity

The action-reaction principle

The law on the conservation of energy

The General Relativity

19 - What is the speed of light?

3 x 10^8 m/s

3 x 10^9 m/s

3 x 10^10 m/s

3 x 10^11 m/s

20 - Refraction is due to:

Light changing frequency

Light changing speed

Light changing brightness

Light changing phase

 

  

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