1 - 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

2 - 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

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

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

4 - 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

5 - Which is not a computer graphics file standard?

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Graphics Interchange Format

Pictorial Binary Encoded Material

Tagged Image File Format

6 - Richard Feynman is a famous:

Chemist

Bioligist

Physicist

Engineer

7 - Who created the periodic table of the elements?

Mendeleyev

Avogadro

Dalton

Bertholet

8 - 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

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

Centaur

Charon

Chronos

Pluto does not have a satelite

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

18

23

36

46

11 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?

Percival Lowell

James Christy

Clyde Tombaugh

James van Allen

12 - 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

13 - 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

14 - 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

15 - Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction?

Ohm

Volta

Faraday

Ampere

16 - 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

17 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

gold and copper

gold and tin

copper and tin

copper and zinc

18 - Which of these was NOT the name of a US Spacecraft?

Glamorous Glennis

Molly Brown

Sigma 7

Aurora 7

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

Carbon Dioxyde Water Di-Oxygen Nitrogen Dioxyde

20 - 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

 

  

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