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	Normal Science & Technology Quiz 1 - 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 2 - 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 3 - 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 4 - 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 5 - Who allegedly invented a mechanism where a pipe fitted in spiral inside a tube will raise water or grain when turned? William Gilbert William Bickford Ctesibius Archimedes 6 - In the name of the disc type, what does CD stand for? compressed disk format computer disk compressed data compact disc 7 - Which of the decimal number below corresponds to the binary number 00101010? 3 68 42 101,010 8 - In the English system of measurement, what was the original value of a yard? (it is now 36 inches) the distance between the king's nose and thumb if he stuck his arm out at a right angle with his thumb pointed up the distance between the front and back legs of the finest horse in the king's stables the longest distance the king could cover in one stride the distance the king could throw a specific weighted ball called the Canterbury Sphere 9 - Chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, ataxites and hexahedrites are all types of what? asteroid planetary core dust nebulae meteorites 10 - 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 11 - 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 12 - What element has "H" for symbol? Helium Hydroxide Hydrogen Hafnium 13 - To which country does the .ie domain suffix belong? India Indonesia Eire Israel 14 - Which is not a computer graphics file standard? Joint Photographic Experts Group Graphics Interchange Format Pictorial Binary Encoded Material Tagged Image File Format 15 - How many pairs of chromosomes does a human usually have? 18 23 36 46 16 - From which country is Linus Torvalds, writer of the Linux kernel? Finland Sweden United Kingdom United States 17 - 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 18 - What are the 4 Galilean Satellites? Ganymede, Callisto, Titania, Ophelia Io, Europa, Phobos, Deimos Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto Mimas, Enceladus, Ganymede, Deimos 19 - Which of these was NOT the name of a US Spacecraft? Glamorous Glennis Molly Brown Sigma 7 Aurora 7 20 - Neanderthals are named for the place where their bones were discovered, which was a: river bed cave mountain top valley Homepage