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

Sir Bernard Lovell

Henry Brinton

Sir Fred Hoyle

Sir Patrick Moore

2 - 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

3 - What model of rocket is shown below?

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

4 - 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

5 - Who is credited with the wave theory of light?

Newton

Leibniz

Huygens

Maxwell

6 - How many planets can be seen with normal 20/20 vision, unaided by telescopes, and unhindered by light polution?

6

7

9

8

7 - 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

8 - 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

9 - Which of the following is not credited to the Chinese?

The invention of rockets

The discovery of magnetic attraction

The discovery of electric attraction

The calculation of pi to the fifth decimal

10 - 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

11 - Which of the following is not a formula for energy?

(mv²)/2 (where m is mass, and v is speed)

hf (where h is Planck's constant, and f is frequency)

ma (where m is mass, and a is acceleration)

mc² (where m is mass, and c is the speed of light)

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

Jean Luc

Jacques Piccard

Jules Verne

Jacques Cousteau

13 - 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

14 - 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

15 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

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

Serial Attached SCSI

Server Attached SATA

Serial Attached SATA

SCSI Attached SATA

17 - 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

18 - 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)

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

lever

hinge

wedge

screw

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

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

 

  

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