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

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

2 - What is the unit of energy?

Newton

Einstein

Joule

Watt

3 - From which country is Linus Torvalds, writer of the Linux kernel?

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

4 - 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

5 - 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

6 - 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

7 - Which of these is a star?

Andromeda

Antares

Ceres

Orion

8 - 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

9 - 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

10 - What is El Nino?

The surname given to Ventura Reyes Prósper

A major warming of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean

A particularly damaging type of hurricane

The nine forms the Ebola disease can take

11 - 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

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

(di)Nitrogen

(di)Oxygen

Water Vapor

Carbon Dioxide

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

compressed disk format

computer disk

compressed data

compact disc

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

Lotus

Microsoft

Corel

Oracle

15 - 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

16 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth?

12000 km (7458 miles)

26000 km (16159 miles)

40000 km (24860 miles)

63000 km (39154 miles)

17 - 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

18 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

gold and copper

gold and tin

copper and tin

copper and zinc

19 - Richard Feynman is a famous:

Chemist

Bioligist

Physicist

Engineer

20 - 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

 

  

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