Hard Science & Technology Quiz

 

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

2 - Which Space mission was described by James Lovell and Neil Armstrong as 'The most significant in the history of US spaceflight'?

3 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

4 - Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'?

5 - What is the collective name for the asteroids that are co-orbital with Jupiter?

6 - How was the NASA probe Climate Orbiter lost in 1999?

7 - What was the diametre of the biggest Kamtchatka crab found?

8 - What potential source of danger to space travellers was discovered by this Scientist?

9 - Which of these standards is not used for connecting daughter boards to computers' mother board?

10 - According to the Nyquist-Shannon theory:

11 - What is a perfect number?

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

13 - Of the following animals, which is the most closely related to humans from an evolutionary point of view?

14 - The Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's biggest when complete. When did the construction start?

15 - What bridge shook itself to destruction leading to the new science of wind engineering?

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

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

18 - Who was the only US Astronaut to fly aboard Gemini, Apollo and the STS (Shuttle), including two maiden flights?

19 - What does 'SAS' stand for (when related to computer hard disks)?

20 - During WW2, the British created a machine called Colossus to break the German Fish cypher. Who was not involved in the project?

 

  

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