1 - Which British Astronomer has a Lunar crater named after him?

Sir Bernard Lovell

Henry Brinton

Sir Fred Hoyle

Sir Patrick Moore

2 - What potential source of danger to space travellers was discovered by this Scientist?

Micrometeorites between the Moon and Earth A torus of energetic charged particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field Deep dust fields in some lunar maria The solar wind

3 - Which famous Astronomer had a gold prosthetic nose, having lost the real one in a duel?

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

4 - Which of these standards is not used for connecting daughter boards to computers' mother board?

VESA

ISA

PCI

DMA

5 - Given the following standard phase diagram (temperature vs pressure) of compound y, what phase or phases of matter are present at point x?

gas only liquid and solid liquid and gas liquid only

6 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

7 - Which of the following is not a formula for energy?

(mv²)/2 (where m is mass, and v is speed)

hf (where h is Planck's constant, and f is frequency)

ma (where m is mass, and a is acceleration)

mc² (where m is mass, and c is the speed of light)

8 - Which of these is an example of an extremophile?

Elephas maximus

Sequoiadendron giganteum

Architeuthis martensi

Bacillus infernus

9 - Which ancient people is generally (and somewhat controversially) credited with the invention of the zero?

The Indians

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Chinese

10 - What is the other giant spiral galaxy of the Local Group, along with the Milky Way?

Athena

Eurypides

Andromeda

Clytemnestra

11 - Truth and beauty were the names of two sorts of quarks, what were the other four?

up, down, left and right

strange, charm, up and down

top, bottom, left and right

love, faith, spirit and soul

12 - What has been found to be special about the star BPM 37093 in Centaurus?

It is the densest White Dwarf yet discovered

It has a core of solid diamond

It is currently the closest star to the Earth (apart from the Sun!)

It has been shown to possess a planetary system

13 - For research in what field did Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield win the Nobel prize of Medicine in 2003?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The study of AIDS

The genetic causes of degenerative brain diseases

The use of laser in open-heart surgery

14 - Who was the only US Astronaut to fly aboard Gemini, Apollo and the STS (Shuttle), including two maiden flights?

Neil Armstrong

Wally Schirra

John Young

Eugene Cernan

15 - Which one has explored the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean?

Jean Luc

Jacques Piccard

Jules Verne

Jacques Cousteau

16 - How was the NASA probe Climate Orbiter lost in 1999?

Bad insulation exposed the electronic circuit to extreme heat, fatally damaging it

A typing mistake when entering coordinates caused it to miss the red planet

A mixup between Imperial and Metric units in navigation data caused it to approach too near to Mars

The probe stopped responding for an unknown reason while it was already in orbit

17 - How far away from is the Earth from the Sun (on average) ?

1.5 x 10^8 km (9.32 x 10^7 miles)

1.3 x 10^7 km (8.08 x 10^6 miles)

1.8 x 10^10 km (1.12 x 10^10 miles)

1.2 x 10^7 km (7.46 x 10^6 miles)

18 - What is one difference between RNA and DNA?

DNA has two strands while RNA contains three strands.

RNA uses uracil as a base instead of thymine.

In RNA, the pattern of nucleotides is in reverse order.

RNA is only found in cell walls or membranes.

19 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

as a digestive enzyme

as an energy carrier

to maintain cell membrane integrity

as a competitive inhibitor

20 - What is the greatest number of electrons that can fit into the first electron shell (also called an energy level)?

2

3

6

10

 

  

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