Technician

Junior

An alpha particle consists of what?

2 protons and 2 neutrons

Gold's purity is measured in what unit?

Carat

Some scientists believe that you can travel to the future by traveling at the speed of what?

Light

The death of what results in black holes?

Stars

The gigantic explosion which is believed to have caused the universe is known as what?

Big Bang

The mass of an object divided by its volume is known as what?

Density

What is added to nickel to make American nickels?

Copper

What is put inside the structure of concrete buildings in order to keep it stable?

Steel beams

What law states that a change in electric field creates a magnetic field?

Ampere's Law

What sea is so inundated with salt that you can almost float on it without swimming?

Dead Sea

Which of these represents pure gold?

24 carats

Which of the following is NOT hardware?

Operating system

Which of these men started a company with Steve Jobs in 1976?

Steve Wozniak

What is the name of the man who founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates?

Paul Allen

What is Silicon Valley known for?

Electronics industry

Which country did Steve Jobs come from?

USA

What do we associate "common rail" technology with?

Diesel engines

What was the name of Apple's 1st series-produced computer?

Apple ll

What is the nickname of the multinational data company IBM?

Big Blue

What wage did Steve Jobs get from his company for many years?

1 dollar

With what type of product is the company Velodyne associated?

Loud speakers

In which year did Blaise Pascal build the first mechanical calculator?

1642

What made Steve Jobs leave his company in 1985?

Internal power struggle

What is Mac OS X?

An operative system

A computer developed in Cambridge University was the first computer with stored programs and did its first calculation in 1949. What's it called?

EDSAC

Databases are accessed using a what?

Interface

What does the "I" in Ipod, Iphone, etc., mean?

Internet

Senior

A scythe is a what?

Cutting tool

After which war did Americans start using forks? 

Civil War

An orbit's furthest point from Earth is called what?

Apogee

Around how many gallons of water are used in dishwashers? 

10

Around what temperature will you reach absolute 0?

-460 degrees fahrenheit

Pressure at a given point in the Earth's atmosphere is called what?

Atmospheric pressure

The tallest building in the world is what? 

Burj Khalifa

What are tin cans actually made of?

Steel

What does LASER stand for?

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

What type of magnet's magnetic field is produced by an electric current?

Electromagnet

What type of material is well-suited for absorbing large amounts of moisture from the atmosphere?

Deliquescent

Which of these can destroy diamonds? 

Fire

Which of these dictators is named after steel? 

Joseph Stalin

Which of these objects could refuse the gravitational pull of a black hole?

Nothing can

Who invented bifocals?

Benjamin Franklin

What is the Eiffel Tower made out of?

Wrought iron

Which of these is not one of the four fundamental forces of the nature?

Static force

Schrodinger's Cat involves what type of physics?

Quantum mechanics

What does a milling machine do?

Cuts

What does the Greek work "astron" mean?

Star

Which of these is NOT an observable state of matter?

Bose-Einstein condensate

Which of these is believed to possibly allow for time travel?

Cosmic strings

A collection of particles which possess opposite properties to normal particles are called what?

Antimatter

What term describes momentum along a curved path?

Angular momentum

What does RADAR stand for?

Radio Detection and Ranging

Who devised the theory of relativity?

Albert Einstein

The third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere is what?

Argon

What is the Ericofon also known as?

The Cobra phone

How many bits are there in a byte?

8

What in other words is "kerosene"?

Jet fuel

Mobile telephones often use jar files. What type of files are these?

Java files

Which company is behind the luxury marque Acura?

Honda

Which rival of Edison developed the concept of alternating current?

Tesla

A severe nuclear accident occurred in 1979. Where?

Harrisburg

Which of the following is not an operating system?

Mona OS

Steve Jobs died during 2011. What was the cause of death?

Cancer

Expert

"A Brief History of Time" is a book by who?

Stephen Hawking

A typical pencil can draw a line that’s around how many miles long?

35 miles

The deepest hole in the world exists where?

Russia

The first GPS satellite was launched in what year?

1978

Two Roman irrigation dams from the 2nd century still exist in what country?

Spain

What does the abbreviation GPS stand for?

Global Positioning System

What group of people were first responsible for monitoring time in intervals of 60s?

Babylonians

What is the estimated weight of our entire atmosphere?

5.5 quadrillion tons

What is the most slippery substance in the world?

Teflon

What organization maintains GPS satellites?

US Department of Defense

What scale is used to measure the force of wind at sea?

Beaufort Scale

What tool uses the positioning of the sun to tell time?

Sundial

What type of metal was originally going to be used on the top of the Washington Monument?

Aluminium

Which of these US Presidents once worked professionally with metals?

Herbert Hoover

Who built the first pendulum clock?

Christiaan Huygens

Who is considered the father of the computer?

Charles Babbage

Who is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize in physics?

Lawrence Bragg

What is the densest wood in the world?

Black Ironwood

Who introduced the concept of inertia?

Leonhard Euler

What was the age of the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize?

17

For what application is the operating system "Symbian OS" primarily used?

Mobile Phones

In hacker slang, what is a person who manipulates telephone networks to make free calls known as?

Phreaker

What was "Little Boy" a code name for?

An atomic bomb

Which year did the Mir space station burn up in the Earth atmosphere?

2001

It is relatively safe to be in a car during a thunderstorm because it acts as a...?

Faraday cage

In which part of a nuclear plant do you find radioactive materials?

The reactor core

What are primitive computers sometimes called?

Bitty box

Which of the following is NOT a classic manufacturer of ear phones?

Synopsis

What is the name of the San Francisco based IT-company which offers an internet based service for ordering and paying for taxi rides and carpooling?

UBER

What does the abbreviation FTP stand for in the Internet context?

File Transfer Protocol

What do we usually associate the initials PDP with?

Digital monitors

Which SI-unit is a measure of radioactivity?

Becquerel

Who invented the computer program "ELIZA" in 1966 that can hold a simple dialogue with the user?

Joseph Weizenbaum

What does the Jobs-owned company Pixar produce?

Animated movies

What does the abbreviation IP stand for regarding the internet?

Internet Protocol

What is the name of the company founded by Steve Jobs in 1976?

Apple

What does the abbreviation WAP stand for regarding telephony?

Wireless Application Protocol

Where is the Samsung company based?

South Korea

Which of these computer businesses did Steve Jobs once work for?

Atari

What is a picture element on a computer monitor called?

Pixel

The first generation of computers were based on a vacuum pipe system. What replaced these pipes after an important invention in 1948?

Transistor

What is the anode in an alkaline battery made of?

Zinc

In which state is Silicon Valley, home computers, situated?

California