1 - During WW2, the British created a machine called Colossus to break the German Fish cypher. Who was not involved in the project?
2 - What top speed does a TGV (French high speed train) reach in commercial service?
3 - What is the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
4 - What was the diametre of the biggest Kamtchatka crab found?
5 - What model of rocket is shown below?
6 - Of the following animals, which is the most closely related to humans from an evolutionary point of view?
7 - Which is not one of the six classical simple machines?
8 - The Three Gorges Dam in China will be the world's biggest when complete. When did the construction start?
9 - Which of these is an example of an extremophile?
10 - Which of the following are all leptons?
11 - We say a planet is in ________ when that planet is furthest away from the sun.
12 - Which element was named after the country 'Cyprus'?
13 - What is a perfect number?
14 - Which ancient people is generally (and somewhat controversially) credited with the invention of the zero?
15 - Which extra solar planet is currently known as orbiting a brown dwarf?
16 - Which one has explored the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the ocean?
17 - Who sponsored the most widely adopted school computer in the UK in the early 1980's?
18 - Of the following, who did NOT take part in the development of the first steam engines?
19 - Which of these standards is not used for connecting daughter boards to computers' mother board?
20 - What are the four fundamental interactions between particles?
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