1 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

2 - 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

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

Athena

Eurypides

Andromeda

Clytemnestra

4 - Which Space mission was described by James Lovell and Neil Armstrong as 'The most significant in the history of US spaceflight'?

Apollo 13

Apollo 8

Apollo 14

Gemini 4

5 - 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

6 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

7 - 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)

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 - Which of the following are all leptons?

electron, positron, photon

proton, deuteron, neutron

tau, muon, electron

electron, proton, neutron

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

Eros

Ceres

Vesta

Pallas

11 - 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

12 - During WW2, the British created a machine called Colossus to break the German Fish cypher. Who was not involved in the project?

Albert Small

Max Newman

Alan Turing

Tommy Flowers

13 - The Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's biggest when complete. When did the construction start?

1991

1994

1997

2001

14 - The pH scale measures...

The concentration of hydronium ions.

The inverse concentration of hydronium ions.

The level of molecular activity

The concentration of NH- ions

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

Acorn

Apple

International Business Machines

British Broadcasting Corporation

16 - Which of these aircraft designers was responsible for the Hawker Hurricane fighter plane?

Sir Frank Whittle

Reginald J Mitchell

Sir Sidney Camm

Sir Barnes Wallace

17 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

18 - 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

19 - 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

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

Serial Attached SCSI

Server Attached SATA

Serial Attached SATA

SCSI Attached SATA

 

  

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