Travel Know-how
What is the name of the international airport in Seoul?
Incheon International Airport
What is the formula for calculating the force exerted by an object?
Force = Mass x Acceleration (F = ma)
What is the name of the layer of the atmosphere where weather events occur?
Troposphere
What molecule carries genetic information in living organisms?
DNA
Who invented the World Wide Web in 1989?
Tim Berners-Lee
Which Japanese city has a ferry route to Busan, South Korea, that takes around 3 hours?
Fukuoka
What type of electromagnetic radiation has the longest wavelength?
Radio waves
What type of rock is formed from cooled lava or magma?
Igneous rock
What is the main function of red blood cells?
To carry oxygen
Who is known as the "Father of the Computer" for his conceptual design of the Analytical Engine?
Charles Babbage
What is the name of the high-speed train in Korea that connects Seoul and Busan?
KTX (Korea Train eXpress)
What is the name of the principle that states the buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object?
Archimedes' Principle
What phenomenon is caused by the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth's oceans?
Tides
What is the name of the process by which a single cell divides into two identical daughter cells?
Mitosis
Who invented the phonograph in 1877, which was the first device to record and reproduce sound?
Thomas Edison
What historical site in South Korea is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was once the capital of the Silla Kingdom?
Gyeongju
What is the term for the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius?
Calorie
What is the name of the boundary where two tectonic plates collide?
Convergent boundary
What part of the brain is responsible for regulating heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure?
Medulla oblongata
Who invented the process of vulcanizing rubber in 1839, making it more durable and elastic?
Charles Goodyear
Which body of water must you cross when traveling by sea from Kanazawa, Japan, to Vladivostok, Russia, en route to Korea? (2 Seas)
Sea of Japan and the East Sea (also known as the Korean East Sea)
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.
What term describes the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes?
Thermohaline circulation
What is the term for the evolutionary process by which a single species evolves into multiple distinct species adapted to different environments?
Adaptive radiation
Who is the inventor of the first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched in 1926?
Robert H. Goddard