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	Normal Science & Technology Quiz 1 - To which country does the .ie domain suffix belong? India Indonesia Eire Israel 2 - What particularity of Europa is of particular interest to scientists? It is believed to be the last remain of a planet having collided with Jupiter Its atmosphere is very rich in oxygen Rocks covering its surface might date from the beginning of the Solar System There is a remote possibility that its ice-covered oceans might harbor life 3 - 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 4 - What is a micro-kernel? A new breed of genetically engineered corn A computer operating system that provides a minimal set of services A theory in fundamental particle physics involving immutable laws A philosophical premise that says that one should have as few axioms or assumptions as possible 5 - 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 6 - Richard Feynman is a famous: Chemist Bioligist Physicist Engineer 7 - Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what? asteroid planetary core dust nebulae meteorites 8 - Which physical law is behind the idea of a rocket engine? The law of gravity The action-reaction principle The law on the conservation of energy The General Relativity 9 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010? 3 68 42 101,010 10 - Brass is an alloy of which two metals? gold and copper gold and tin copper and tin copper and zinc 11 - Who discovered Charon, the satellite of Pluto? Percival Lowell James Christy Clyde Tombaugh James van Allen 12 - 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 13 - If a car moving at a speed of 50 km/h has a kinetic energy of x, what kinetic energy will it have when moving at 100 km/h? Still x Square root of two * x 2x 4x 14 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites? Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos 15 - What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere? (di)Nitrogen (di)Oxygen Water Vapor Carbon Dioxide 16 - Of the following, which is the closest definition of a laser? A device that produces coherent light with a narrow range of wavelengths A device that produces extremely intense light A device that projects electrons at high speed A device that polarize photons, propelling them by magnetic repulsion 17 - If a phenomenom has a periodicity of 6 miliseconds, it has a frequency of: 600 mhz 6 hz 1.66 hz 166 hz 18 - Who developed the laws of electromagnetic induction? Ohm Volta Faraday Ampere 19 - What are the four bases found in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)? oxygen, phosphate, ribose, cytosine purine, pyrimadine, ribose, uracil guanine, cytosine, adenine, thymine ribose, oxygen, nucleic acid, phosphate 20 - Which of these is heavier ? A brown dwarf A white dwarf Jupiter All the solar planets put together, except for Jupiter Homepage