1 - Which of the following companies has not developed an 'Office suite' of programs for the Windows OS?

Lotus

Microsoft

Corel

Oracle

2 - What is the A380?

The biggest civilian aircraft ever, built by Airbus

The code name for AMD's next-generation laptop chips

The model of the rocket used by China to send its first astronaut in space

A supersonic military transport aircraft being developed by Boing

3 - How was the length of a meter originally defined?

As 0.5 French Royal Yards

As the distance sound travels in 1/100th of a second

As the length of a specially made rod of arbitrary length

As one ten-millioneth of the distance between the pole and the equator

4 - Which of these is heavier ?

A brown dwarf

A white dwarf

Jupiter

All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter

5 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

gold and copper

gold and tin

copper and tin

copper and zinc

6 - In the name of the disc type, what does CD stand for?

compressed disk format

computer disk

compressed data

compact disc

7 - Which mathematician would you associate with the famous 'Last Theorem' in Number Theory ?

Leonard Euler

Pythagoras

Pierre de Fermat

Euclid

8 - To which country does the .ie domain suffix belong?

India

Indonesia

Eire

Israel

9 - What does the first Moore's law state?

The number of transistors that can be fitted per square inch doubles every 18 month

The speed of microprocessors doubles every year

The cost of a microprocessor is inversly proportional to the size of its market

The energy needed by a processor is increased by half for every doubling of performance

10 - What element has "H" for symbol?

Helium

Hydroxide

Hydrogen

Hafnium

11 - For what accomplishment did Einstein receive a Physic Nobel Prize?

The discovery of the Law of the Photoelectric Effect

The Theory of Special Relativity

The Theory of General Relativity

The discovery of radio-activity

12 - What is the name of Pluto's satellite?

Centaur

Charon

Chronos

Pluto does not have a satelite

13 - Roughtly how long ago did the Sun form?

One hundred and twenty million years ago

One billion years ago

Five billions years ago

Twelve billions years ago

14 - What does the acronym ASCII stand for?

American Standard Coding for International Interchange

Automated Standard Coding for Information Interchange

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Automated Standard Code for International Interchange

15 - How many dwarf planets are currently recognised by the International Astronomical Union in our solar system?

0

2

4

5

16 - What is a prion?

A neutrally-charged elementary particle

A protein believed to be responsible for the Creutzfeld-Jakob disease

A GPS-controlled Chinese anti-aircraft missile

A radio-active element used in certain atomic calculators

17 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto?

Percival Lowell

James Christy

Clyde Tombaugh

James van Allen

18 - What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

(di)Nitrogen

(di)Oxygen

Water Vapor

Carbon Dioxide

19 - Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what?

asteroid

planetary core

dust nebulae

meteorites

20 - What is approximatively the circumference of the Earth?

12000 km (7458 miles)

26000 km (16159 miles)

40000 km (24860 miles)

63000 km (39154 miles)

 

  

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