1 - Which of these aircraft designers was responsible for the Hawker Hurricane fighter plane?

Sir Frank Whittle

Reginald J Mitchell

Sir Sidney Camm

Sir Barnes Wallace

2 - For research in what field did Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield win the Nobel prize of Medicine in 2003?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The study of AIDS

The genetic causes of degenerative brain diseases

The use of laser in open-heart surgery

3 - What is a Lagrange point?

An orbital spot where a small object will remain stationary with respect to two large gravitational objects

The vertical angle at which a spinning object will become unstable and fall over

A sharp-pointed fulcrum where the slope from the point is equal in all directions

The temperature for a liquid at which no amount of pressure will prevent boiling

4 - 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

5 - 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

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

Apollo 13

Apollo 8

Apollo 14

Gemini 4

7 - 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

8 - What is the quark combination in a proton?

uud

udd

usd

ssd

9 - 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

10 - How far away from is the Earth from the Sun (on average) ?

1.5 x 10^8 km (9.32 x 10^7 miles)

1.3 x 10^7 km (8.08 x 10^6 miles)

1.8 x 10^10 km (1.12 x 10^10 miles)

1.2 x 10^7 km (7.46 x 10^6 miles)

11 - 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

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 - 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

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

citesism

meiosis

cytokinesis

fission

15 - Which famous Astronomer had a gold prosthetic nose, having lost the real one in a duel?

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

16 - Which extra solar planet is currently known as orbiting a brown dwarf?

HD 224693B

Gliese 777 AC

2M1207B

55 Cancri AE

17 - What model of rocket is shown below?

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

18 - 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

19 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

as a digestive enzyme

as an energy carrier

to maintain cell membrane integrity

as a competitive inhibitor

20 - 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)

 

  

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