1 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?
2 - Truth and beauty were the names of two sorts of quarks, what were the other four?
3 - Who sponsored the most widely adopted school computer in the UK in the early 1980's?
4 - Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'?
5 - What is the quark combination in a proton?
6 - Of the following, who did NOT take part in the development of the first steam engines?
7 - What bridge shook itself to destruction leading to the new science of wind engineering?
8 - What top speed does a TGV (French high speed train) reach in commercial service?
9 - Which of these standards is not used for connecting daughter boards to computers' mother board?
10 - Which famous Astronomer had a gold prosthetic nose, having lost the real one in a duel?
11 - What is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
12 - The Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's biggest when complete. When did the construction start?
13 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?
14 - What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus?
15 - Given the following standard phase diagram (temperature vs pressure) of compound y, what phase or phases of matter are present at point x?
16 - Which one has explored the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean?
17 - Which British Astronomer has a Lunar crater named after him?
18 - Who is credited with the wave theory of light?
19 - What does EPROM stand for (in relation to computers)?
20 - During WW2, the British created a machine called Colossus to break the German Fish cypher. Who was not involved in the project?
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