Scientific Knowledge Quizz I

1/ Which scientist wrotes the book "The Origin of Species" ?

STEPHEN JAY GOULD

CHARLES DARWIN

JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK

TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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2/ How much time does the light require to travel from the sun to the earth ?

About 9 milli-seconds

About 9 seconds

About 9 minutes

About 9 hours

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3/ How many kilometers measures the tour around the earth following the equator ?

About 20 000 kilometers

About 40 000 kilometers

About 60 000 kilometers

About 80 000 kilometers

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4/ How many planets orbit around the sun ?

7

8

9

10

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5/ Choose the right chronological order :

Australopithecus - Homo Habilis - Homo Erectus - Homo Sapiens

Homo Habilis - Australopithecus - Homo Erectus - Homo Sapiens

Homo Erectus - Australopithecus - Homo Habilis - Homo Sapiens

Australopithecus - Homo Erectus - Homo Sapiens - Homo Habilis

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6/ If you launch at the top of the Eiffel tower two similar balls of different weights :

The lightest ball will touch the ground before the other

The heaviest ball will touch the ground before the other

The two balls will touch the ground at approximately the same instant

It is impossible to predict because such a behaviour is completely chaotic

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7/ What is composed a laser rayon of ?

Alpha particles

Photons

Molecules

Quarks

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8/ What is surely determined by DNA ?

Hair color and eyes color

Weight at adult age

Date of your death

Richness

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9/ What causes a lack of vitamin C ?

Measles

Anorexia

Rheumatism

Scurvy

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10/ What are the languages written in the Rosetta stone ?

Hieroglyphic - Greek - Latin

Demotic - Persian - Arabian

Hieroglyphic - Demotic - Greek

Hieroglyphic - Latin - Demotic

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11/ Which assertion is correct ?

There are at least four forces in Physics : gravitational, electromagnetism, weak nuclear and strong nuclear

There are no important difference between a conjecture and a theorem in Mathematics

The "Piltdown Man" was a serious discovery

Socrates and Aristotle worked together

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12/ Which assertion is false ?

There are two hemispheres in the human brain

The left hemisphere controls the right part of the body

We only use 10% of the human brain

The brain weight corresponds to about 2% of the body weight

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13/ Which philosopher formalized first the logic ?

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Nietzche

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14/ Which scientist first argued that earth orbits around the sun (and not the contrary) ?

Johannes Kepler

Leonardo da Vinci

Galileo Galilei

Nicholas Copernic

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15/ Who discovered the quarks ?

Niels Bohr

Murray Gell-Mann

Ernest Rutherford

Stephen Hawking

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16/ Why a "black hole" is named like this ?

because it is really a hole in the space-time

because the light can not go out of it

because of his danger

because of a science-fiction movie

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17/ Who discovered the blood type system ?

KARL LANDSTEINER

CHRIS BAARNARD

ALEXANDER FLEMING

CARL SAGAN

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18/ Who invented the light bulb in 1879 ?

ELISHA GRAY

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

THOMAS EDISON

NIKOLA TESLA

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19/ What was the name of the first dog in the space ?

LASSY

LARA

SPOT

LAIKA

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20/ Who invented the integral calculus ?

LEIBNIZ

NEWTON

GAUSS

LAPLACE