1 - Which of the following are all leptons?

electron, positron, photon

proton, deuteron, neutron

tau, muon, electron

electron, proton, neutron

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

Sir Bernard Lovell

Henry Brinton

Sir Fred Hoyle

Sir Patrick Moore

3 - What model of rocket is shown below?

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

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

The Indians

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Chinese

5 - What top speed does a TGV (French high speed train) reach in commercial service?

220 km/h (137 miles/h)

250 km/h (155 miles/h)

300 km/h (186 miles/h)

380 km/h (236 miles/h)

6 - 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

7 - 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.

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

De Broglie

Heisenberg

Bohr

Einstein

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

Eros

Ceres

Vesta

Pallas

10 - What has been found to be special about the star BPM 37093 in Centaurus?

It is the densest White Dwarf yet discovered

It has a core of solid diamond

It is currently the closest star to the Earth (apart from the Sun!)

It has been shown to possess a planetary system

11 - 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

12 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

13 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

as a digestive enzyme

as an energy carrier

to maintain cell membrane integrity

as a competitive inhibitor

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 - How many planets can be seen with normal 20/20 vision, unaided by telescopes, and unhindered by light polution?

6

7

9

8

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

2

3

6

10

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

Acorn

Apple

International Business Machines

British Broadcasting Corporation

18 - 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)

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

Athena

Eurypides

Andromeda

Clytemnestra

20 - 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

 

  

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