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

Copper

Chlorine

Cerium

Cobalt

2 - What are the craters on Venus named after?

Roman mythological figures

Astronomers

The home towns of astronomers

Famous women

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

Newton

Leibniz

Huygens

Maxwell

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

citesism

meiosis

cytokinesis

fission

5 - What is the quark combination in a proton?

uud

udd

usd

ssd

6 - 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)

7 - 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

8 - Which ancient people is generally (and somewhat controversially) credited with the invention of the zero?

The Indians

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Chinese

9 - 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

10 - Which of these is an example of an extremophile?

Elephas maximus

Sequoiadendron giganteum

Architeuthis martensi

Bacillus infernus

11 - What model of rocket is shown below?

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

12 - 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)

13 - Who is the only person to hold a patent on a chemical element?

Glenn T. Seaborg

Marie Curie

Enrico Fermi

Albert Ghiorso

14 - 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

15 - Who discovered and capitalized alternating current?

Edison

Tesla

Maxwell

Einstien

16 - 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

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

William Herschel

Galileo

Nicolas Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

18 - How do organisms use Adenosine Triphosphate?

as a digestive enzyme

as an energy carrier

to maintain cell membrane integrity

as a competitive inhibitor

19 - 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

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

HD 224693B

Gliese 777 AC

2M1207B

55 Cancri AE

 

  

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