1 - What model of rocket is shown below?

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

2 - 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

3 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

4 - 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

5 - 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

6 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

7 - Which of the following are all leptons?

electron, positron, photon

proton, deuteron, neutron

tau, muon, electron

electron, proton, neutron

8 - 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

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

lever

hinge

wedge

screw

10 - What is the greatest number of electrons that can fit into the first electron shell (also called an energy level)?

2

3

6

10

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

the Trojans

the Achaens

the Jovenalians

the Lagrangins

12 - 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)

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

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

15 - 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

16 - 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

17 - Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

Perl

Python

C

Basic

18 - 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

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

Copper

Chlorine

Cerium

Cobalt

20 - 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

 

  

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