1 - What does EPROM stand for (in relation to computers)?

Erasable Programmable Real On-core Memory

Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

Easily Programmable Real On-core Memory

Easily Programmable Read Once Memory

2 - The pH scale measures...

The concentration of hydronium ions.

The inverse concentration of hydronium ions.

The level of molecular activity

The concentration of NH- ions

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

Neil Armstrong

Wally Schirra

John Young

Eugene Cernan

4 - 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

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

Micrometeorites between the Moon and Earth A torus of energetic charged particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field Deep dust fields in some lunar maria The solar wind

6 - 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

7 - What is the process by which a eukaryotic cell divides into two new cells?

citesism

meiosis

cytokinesis

fission

8 - Truth and beauty were the names of two sorts of quarks, what were the other four?

up, down, left and right

strange, charm, up and down

top, bottom, left and right

love, faith, spirit and soul

9 - What is the number phi equal to?

sqrt(2)*pi/2 = 2.2214...

(e^2-1)/4 = 1.5972...

(1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.6180...

e^pi = 23.1407...

10 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

11 - The mammal pictured below has a number of nearly-unique characteristics for a mammal. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

It has venomous spurs It lay eggs It can detect the body electricity of its preys It is deaf from birth

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 - Which is not one of the six classical simple machines?

lever

hinge

wedge

screw

14 - Who was the first to propose the uncertainty principle, which is vital to quantum mechanics?

De Broglie

Heisenberg

Bohr

Einstein

15 - Given the following standard phase diagram (temperature vs pressure) of compound y, what phase or phases of matter are present at point x?

gas only liquid and solid liquid and gas liquid only

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

VESA

ISA

PCI

DMA

17 - 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.

18 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

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

220 km/h (137 miles/h)

250 km/h (155 miles/h)

300 km/h (186 miles/h)

380 km/h (236 miles/h)

20 - Which one has explored the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean?

Jean Luc

Jacques Piccard

Jules Verne

Jacques Cousteau

 

  

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