1 - What scientific phenomenon is often (mistakenly) thought as having been first reported by Columbus?

The inversion of the sense of gyration of water emptying from a hole as one crosses the equator

The difference between the geographic & magnetic North Poles

The existence of Aurora Borealis above the ocean

The increase in the sea's level near the equator, due to the increased centrifugal force

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

lever

hinge

wedge

screw

3 - What are the four fundamental interactions between particles?

Electromagnetic, kinetic, potential, nuclear

Electromagnetic, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), gravity

Magnetic, ionic, elecric, gravity

Gravity, nuclear (strong), nuclear (weak), ionic, magnetic

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

Albert Small

Max Newman

Alan Turing

Tommy Flowers

5 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

as a digestive enzyme

as an energy carrier

to maintain cell membrane integrity

as a competitive inhibitor

6 - What model of rocket is shown below?

An Ariane IV An Ariane V A Delta IV A Proton (three-stages model)

7 - Of the following, who did NOT take part in the development of the first steam engines?

James Watt

Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Savery

James Hargreaves

8 - 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

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

Bad insulation exposed the electronic circuit to extreme heat, fatally damaging it

A typing mistake when entering coordinates caused it to miss the red planet

A mixup between Imperial and Metric units in navigation data caused it to approach too near to Mars

The probe stopped responding for an unknown reason while it was already in orbit

10 - 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

11 - According to the Nyquist-Shannon theory:

to double an amplifier's loudness, you must quadruple the power supplied

doubling the density of a medium halves the speed of sound through that medium

to capture a signal, the sample frequency must be at least double the signal frequency

any telephone or telegraph system based on wires requires at least two of them

12 - 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

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

Serial Attached SCSI

Server Attached SATA

Serial Attached SATA

SCSI Attached SATA

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

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Causey Gap Bridge

Sunshine Skyway

Phillipe Ridge Causeway

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

VESA

ISA

PCI

DMA

16 - What is the name of the largest known cellestial body belonging to the Solar system that lies beyond the orbit of Pluto?

Deucalion

Quaoar

Varuna

Chaos

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

Eros

Ceres

Vesta

Pallas

18 - What is the other giant spiral galaxy of the Local Group, along with the Milky Way?

Athena

Eurypides

Andromeda

Clytemnestra

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

56 cm (22 inches)

105 cm (42 inches)

180 cm (72 inches)

356 cm (140 inches)

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

citesism

meiosis

cytokinesis

fission

 

  

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