1 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

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

The Indians

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Chinese

3 - What model of rocket is shown below?

An Ariane IV An Ariane V A Delta IV A Proton (three-stages model)

4 - 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

5 - Who is credited with the wave theory of light?

Newton

Leibniz

Huygens

Maxwell

6 - 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

7 - Which of the following is not credited to the Chinese?

The invention of rockets

The discovery of magnetic attraction

The discovery of electric attraction

The calculation of pi to the fifth decimal

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

2

3

6

10

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

Copper

Chlorine

Cerium

Cobalt

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

Elephas maximus

Sequoiadendron giganteum

Architeuthis martensi

Bacillus infernus

11 - 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

12 - What is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

Eros

Ceres

Vesta

Pallas

13 - 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)

14 - What is the process by which a eukaryotic cell divides into two new cells?

citesism

meiosis

cytokinesis

fission

15 - 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)

16 - Who sponsored the most widely adopted school computer in the UK in the early 1980's?

Acorn

Apple

International Business Machines

British Broadcasting Corporation

17 - We say a planet is in ________ when that planet is furthest away from the sun.

Perihelion

Aphelion

Apoapsis

Periapsis

18 - 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

19 - What is the collective name for the asteroids that are co-orbital with Jupiter?

the Trojans

the Achaens

the Jovenalians

the Lagrangins

20 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

 

  

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