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ASTRONOMY CLUB RIT
SCIENTIA13 QUIZ COMPETITION PRELIMS
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A prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.
The point fromwhich they appear to come, called the radiant, lies
in the constellation Perseus.
Answer: PERSEIDS
2. Anyone 18 or older may apply, but the fee depends on a users
nationality. ForAmericans, its $38; if youre in Mexico, however its
a mere $15
Answer: MARS ONE PROJECT
3. According to Herodotus, ___________ predicted the year of the
May 28, 585 B.C.solar eclipse.
Answer: THALES OF MILETUS
4. Founded in 1964 by Amar G Bose , known for its loudspeakers,
noise cancellingheadsets, and automotive sound systems.
Answer: BOSE CORPORATION
5. The brightest star in the Ursa Minor constellation.Answer:
POLE STAR
6. In this hypothetical experiment, which the physicist devised
in 1935, a cat is placedin a sealed box along with a radioactive
sample, a Geiger counter and a bottle of
poison.
Answer: SCHRODINGERS CAT EXPERIMENT
7. Abel proved that it was impossible to solve algebraic
equations of this degree orhigher.
Answer: 5th
ORDER
8. Identify this value beyond which a white dwarf would collapse
into a neutron starand possibly a black hole.
Answer: CHANDRASHEKHAR LIMIT
9. In 1978, two high school students, Curt Noll and Laura Nickel
discovered the 25th-oneusing a supercomputer. Identify these
numbers of form 2
P-1, named after a French
monk.
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Answer: MERSENNE PRIME
10.Crepuscular animals are those that are active primarily
during _____________?Answer: TWILIGHT/ DAWN AND DUSK
11. Which star is located closer to the Earth?Answer: THE
SUN
12.This element has the highest binding energy of any atom, and
is thus the lastelement formed by normal stellar nuclear
fusion.
Answer: IRON (Fe)
13.This process made it feasible to mass produce fertilisers. In
this process Nitrogen andHydrogen are converted to Ammonia.
Answer: HABER PROCESS
14.It is the 4x4x4 version of Rubiks Cube, released in 1982.
Invented by PeterSebesteny.
Answer: RUBIKS REVENGE/ MASTER CUBE
15.According to the theory of plate tectonic, all the continents
were once joined into aprimordial landmass called____________?
Answer: PANGAEA
16.Found directly below the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, it is
over two thousand milesthick, and makes up nearly seventy-five per
cent of the volume.
Answer: MANTLE
17.Connect Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom.Answer:
QUARKS
18.Connect Lever, Wheel and Axle, Wedge, Pulley, Inclined Plane,
ScrewAnswer: SIMPLE MACHINES
19.This person wrote what could be considered the first computer
program, a plan onhow to use Babbages Analytical Engine to
calculate Bernoulli Numbers.
Answer: ADA LOVELACE
20.The name for this substance is derived from Latin for through
the smoke, sometypical ingredients are musk, ambergris, civet,
castor.
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Answer: PERFUME
21.Name this substance which, with chemical formula C2 (OH4)2 is
one of the majoringredients in candles.
Answer: PARAFFIN
22.This element takes its name for the Latin word for
Copenhagen. It has atomicnumber 72.
Answer: HAFNIUM
23.Identify this largest Asian lake, believed to contain
one-fifth of the worlds freshwater due to its incredible depth.
Answer: LAKE BAIKAL
24.A region of space-time where space-time curvature becomes so
strong that thegeneral relativistic laws break down and laws of
quantum gravity take over.
Answer: SINGULARITY
25.This general form of geometry omits Euclids fifth postulate
about parallel lines.Different flavours were advanced by
Lobachevsky, Bolyai and Reimann.
Answer: NON EUCLIDEAN
