1 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth?

12000 km (7458 miles)

26000 km (16159 miles)

40000 km (24860 miles)

63000 km (39154 miles)

2 - Which of these is a star?

Andromeda

Antares

Ceres

Orion

3 - Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction?

Ohm

Volta

Faraday

Ampere

4 - Which mathematician would you associate with the famous 'Last Theorem' in Number Theory ?

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

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

3

68

42

101,010

6 - 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

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

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

8 - Which of these is heavier ?

A brown dwarf

A white dwarf

Jupiter

All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter

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

Oberon

Ariel

Umbriel

Titan

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

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

11 - 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

12 - 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

13 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites?

Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia

Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos

Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos

14 - Neanderthals are named for the place where their bones were discovered, which was a:

river bed

cave

mountain top

valley

15 - Who first observed the moons of Jupiter?

Johannes Kepler

Galileo

Eratosthenes

Copernicus

16 - 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

17 - 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

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

18

23

36

46

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

Sony

Philips

Toshiba

Microsoft

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

compressed disk format

computer disk

compressed data

compact disc

 

  

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