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	Normal Science & Technology Quiz 1 - Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction? Ohm Volta Faraday Ampere 2 - Which mathematician would you associate with the famous 'Last Theorem' in Number Theory ? Leonard Euler Pythagoras Pierre de Fermat Euclid 3 - 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 4 - What is the most massive planet in the Solar System? Jupiter Saturn Earth The Sun 5 - 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 6 - What is the unit of energy? Newton Einstein Joule Watt 7 - In the name of the disc type, what does CD stand for? compressed disk format computer disk compressed data compact disc 8 - 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 9 - 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 10 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth? 12000 km (7458 miles) 26000 km (16159 miles) 40000 km (24860 miles) 63000 km (39154 miles) 11 - Which of these is not a moon of Uranus? Oberon Ariel Umbriel Titan 12 - Which of these is a self propagating, self replicating computer program? Virus Worm Trojan Backdoor 13 - Who owns the trademark C(ompact) D(isc)? Sony Philips Toshiba Microsoft 14 - Richard Feynman is a famous: Chemist Bioligist Physicist Engineer 15 - 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 16 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010? 3 68 42 101,010 17 - 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 18 - What are currently the two ways to achieve temperature and pressure required to initiate nuclear fusion? Gravity, magnetic confinement Electromagnetic confinement, electrical confinement Magnetic confinement, Inertial confinement Nuclear fission, gravity 19 - 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 20 - 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 Homepage