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

Serial Attached SCSI

Server Attached SATA

Serial Attached SATA

SCSI Attached SATA

2 - 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

3 - 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.

4 - 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

5 - 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

6 - 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

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 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

9 - 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

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

De Broglie

Heisenberg

Bohr

Einstein

11 - What was the diametre of the biggest Kamtchatka crab found?

56 cm (22 inches)

105 cm (42 inches)

180 cm (72 inches)

356 cm (140 inches)

12 - 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

13 - 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

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

The Indians

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Chinese

15 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

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

1991

1994

1997

2001

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

Athena

Eurypides

Andromeda

Clytemnestra

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

Sir Bernard Lovell

Henry Brinton

Sir Fred Hoyle

Sir Patrick Moore

19 - 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

20 - Which of the following are all leptons?

electron, positron, photon

proton, deuteron, neutron

tau, muon, electron

electron, proton, neutron

 

  

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