1 - What element has "H" for symbol?

Helium

Hydroxide

Hydrogen

Hafnium

2 - Who owns the trademark C(ompact) D(isc)?

Sony

Philips

Toshiba

Microsoft

3 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites?

Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia

Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos

Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos

4 - Which of these is heavier ?

A brown dwarf

A white dwarf

Jupiter

All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter

5 - 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

6 - 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

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

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

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

Lotus

Microsoft

Corel

Oracle

9 - 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

10 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010?

3

68

42

101,010

11 - 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

12 - 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

13 - What is the most massive planet in the Solar System?

Jupiter

Saturn

Earth

The Sun

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

18

23

36

46

15 - Who created the periodic table of the elements?

Mendeleyev

Avogadro

Dalton

Bertholet

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

Oberon

Ariel

Umbriel

Titan

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

Carbon Dioxyde Water Di-Oxygen Nitrogen Dioxyde

18 - How many more times heavier is the Sun than the Earth?

35

3500

350,000

35,000,000

19 - Euclid's 'The Elements' is a book about what?

Earth, Water, Wind, Fire

Geometry and Reasoning

Atomic Structure and Properties

The Scientific Method

20 - 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

 

  

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