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	Hard Science & Technology Quiz 1 - What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus? The inversion of the sense of gyration of water emptying from a hole as one crosses the equator The difference between the geographic & magnetic North Poles The existence of Aurora Borealis above the ocean The increase in the sea's level near the equator, due to the increased centrifugal force 2 - Which of these is an example of an extremophile? Elephas maximus Sequoiadendron giganteum Architeuthis martensi Bacillus infernus 3 - How many planets can be seen with normal 20/20 vision, unaided by telescopes, and unhindered by light polution? 6 7 9 8 4 - Which is not one of the six classical simple machines? lever hinge wedge screw 5 - 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 6 - 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 7 - 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 8 - 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. 9 - What is the collective name for the asteroids that are co-orbital with Jupiter? the Trojans the Achaens the Jovenalians the Lagrangins 10 - Which extra solar planet is currently known as orbiting a brown dwarf? HD 224693B Gliese 777 AC 2M1207B 55 Cancri AE 11 - 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 12 - What is the greatest number of electrons that can fit into the first electron shell (also called an energy level)? 2 3 6 10 13 - What is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? Eros Ceres Vesta Pallas 14 - What is the other giant spiral galaxy of the Local Group, along with the Milky Way? Athena Eurypides Andromeda Clytemnestra 15 - 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 16 - Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'? Copper Chlorine Cerium Cobalt 17 - What are the craters on Venus named after? Roman mythological figures Astronomers The home towns of astronomers Famous women 18 - 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 19 - What is the process by which a eukaryotic cell divides into two new cells? citesism meiosis cytokinesis fission 20 - Who is credited with the wave theory of light? Newton Leibniz Huygens Maxwell Homepage