Scientific Knowledge Quizz II

1/ What is the maximum speed of the light ?

A 3 000 Km/s

B 30 000 Km/s

C 300 000 Km/s

D 3 000 000 Km/s

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2/ What is the corresponding frequency of the "la" music sound ?

A 312 Hz

B 382 Hz

C 422 Hz

D 442 Hz

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3/ Who first broke the sound barrier ?

A YOURI GAGARINE

B CHUCK YEAGER

C EDWIN ALDRINS

D ROGER SHEPARD

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4/ What are Watson and Crick well-known for ?

A They discovered the DNA

B They discovered the structure of the DNA

C They created an apparatus to read the DNA sequence

D They created an apparatus to replicate the DNA

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5/ Who discovered the famous "Lucy" in Africa ?

A YVES COPPENS

B HENRY de LUMLEY

C STEPHEN J. GOULD

D LOUIS LEAKEY

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6/ Who discovered that the universe is in expansion ?

A ALBERT EINSTEIN

B GEORGE GAMOW

C EDWIN HUBBLE

D STANLEY MILLER

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7/ How many mathematical sets can you form with 8 distinct elements ?

A 127

B 8

C 256

D 128

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8/ What is the minimal temperature ?

A -172 (Celsius)

B -262,8 (Celsius)

C -273,15 (Celsius)

D -372 (Celsius)

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9/ Which mathematic operation is NOT commutative ?

A Integers Addition

B Vectorial Product

C Scalar Product

D Complex Number Product

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10/ What is the double blind protocol ? An experience in which :

A Chemists and doctors do not know wether the pill is a real drug or a simple sweet

B Both doctors and patients believe the pill is a real one

C Doctors and patients do not know wether the pill is a real drug or a simple sweet

D Chemists and doctors know the status of the pill. Patients do not know.

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11/ Which assertion is true ?

A Darwin thought that all species derive from a common ancestor

B Human species comes from the reptilian species

C Natural selection means survival of the strongest, the leader of the pack

D Creationnists are agreed with Darwin

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12/ What is the abiogenesis ?

A The process of creating animate beings with unmoving elements

B The genesis of an aboriginal population on a island

C The scientific study of the genesis text

D The scientific study of the genesis of the universe

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13/ Which philosopher created a mechanic calculator ?

A WILLIAM JAMES

B BLAISE PASCAL

C HERMANN HOLLERITH

D BARUCH SPINOZA

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14/ What are the symptoms of the progeria ?

A Need to eat sugar constantly

B Difficulty to move one's body

C An enormous thirst

D Grow acceleration, a boy of 10 years old seems like a 60 years old person

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15/ What is the second law of thermodynamics ?

A Perpetual movement is impossible

B Entropy in a closed system can only growth

C An open system is richer than a closed system, in term of energy

D The union of two closed systems into one is poorer than the addition of the two system separated

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16/ The term LASER stands for :

A Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiations

B Light Amplification by Sending Emission of Rays

C This is not a logo but just the firm name who invented it

D LAteral SERvo-mechanism of destruction

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17/ In which books could you read : GG, gg, Gg ?

A In Physics books

B In Thermodynamics books

C In Geometry books

D In Genetics books

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18/ What sort of work can do easily an artificial neural network ?

A Speaking Zulu fluenty

B Solving a new mathematic problem

C Pattern Recognition

D Playing chess with Kasparov and winning him

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19/ Which assertion is false ?

A Wegener's theory explains the earthquakes

B Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanic are easy to unify in a theroy of everything

C Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism

D The sun is a thermonuclear bomb in activity

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20/ What is the number of neural cells in our brain ?

A 10 billions

B 100 billions

C 30 billions

D 300 billions