1 - Who was the first to propose the uncertainty principle, which is vital to quantum mechanics?

De Broglie

Heisenberg

Bohr

Einstein

2 - Sikhote-Alin is a well-known name to Space enthusiasts. But who or what was he/ she / it?

An iron meteorite that exploded over Russia in 1947

A Russian space scientist, who designed the Buran space shuttle

A pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation of Cepheus

The location of Russia's largest terrestrial telescope

3 - What is the name of the largest known cellestial body belonging to the Solar system that lies beyond the orbit of Pluto?

Deucalion

Quaoar

Varuna

Chaos

4 - Which of the following are all leptons?

electron, positron, photon

proton, deuteron, neutron

tau, muon, electron

electron, proton, neutron

5 - What is a Lagrange point?

An orbital spot where a small object will remain stationary with respect to two large gravitational objects

The vertical angle at which a spinning object will become unstable and fall over

A sharp-pointed fulcrum where the slope from the point is equal in all directions

The temperature for a liquid at which no amount of pressure will prevent boiling

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

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

7 - What are the four fundamental interactions between particles?

Electromagnetic, kinetic, potential, nuclear

Electromagnetic, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), gravity

Magnetic, ionic, elecric, gravity

Gravity, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), ionic, magnetic

8 - What is the number phi equal to?

sqrt(2)*pi/2 = 2.2214...

(e^2-1)/4 = 1.5972...

(1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.6180...

e^pi = 23.1407...

9 - What bridge shook itself to destruction leading to the new science of wind engineering?

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Causey Gap Bridge

Sunshine Skyway

Phillipe Ridge Causeway

10 - 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

11 - Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'?

Copper

Chlorine

Cerium

Cobalt

12 - What is a perfect number?

A number such that the sum of its factors, excluding itself, is greater than itself

A number such that its only divisors are 1 and itself

A number such that the sum of its factors, excluding itself, equals itself

A number such that it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers

13 - What does 'SAS' stand for (when related to computer hard disks)?

Serial Attached SCSI

Server Attached SATA

Serial Attached SATA

SCSI Attached SATA

14 - According to the Nyquist-Shannon theory:

to double an amplifier's loudness, you must quadruple the power supplied

doubling the density of a medium halves the speed of sound through that medium

to capture a signal, the sample frequency must be at least double the signal frequency

any telephone or telegraph system based on wires requires at least two of them

15 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

16 - The mammal pictured below has a number of nearly-unique characteristics for a mammal. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

It has venomous spurs It lay eggs It can detect the body electricity of its preys It is deaf from birth

17 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

18 - 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

19 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

20 - 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

 

  

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