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	Normal Science & Technology Quiz 1 - If a phenomenom has a periodicity of 6 miliseconds, it has a frequency of: 600 mhz 6 hz 1.66 hz 166 hz 2 - What is the most massive planet in the Solar System? Jupiter Saturn Earth The Sun 3 - Which of these is heavier ? A brown dwarf A white dwarf Jupiter All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter 4 - 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 5 - Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what? asteroid planetary core dust nebulae meteorites 6 - 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 7 - Euclid's 'The Elements' is a book about what? Earth, Water, Wind, Fire Geometry and Reasoning Atomic Structure and Properties The Scientific Method 8 - How many pairs of chromosomes does a human usually have? 18 23 36 46 9 - 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 10 - 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 11 - Neanderthals are named for the place where their bones were discovered, which was a: river bed cave mountain top valley 12 - 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 13 - 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 14 - 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 15 - How many more times heavier is the Sun than the Earth? 35 3500 350,000 35,000,000 16 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010? 3 68 42 101,010 17 - 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 18 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites? Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos 19 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth? 12000 km (7458 miles) 26000 km (16159 miles) 40000 km (24860 miles) 63000 km (39154 miles) 20 - Who created the periodic table of the elements? Mendeleyev Avogadro Dalton Bertholet Homepage