Tech Tuesday
What is the most popular programming language?
a) Python
b) Perl
c) C++
d) HTML
e) Javascript
e) Javascript
Famous biologist and mathematician Mendel's first name.
a) George
b) Gregor
c) Igor
d) Gustav
b) Gregor
What percent does each of the 4 sections contain on a box and whisker plot?
a) 20%
b) 50%
c) 10%
d) 25%
d) 25%
What is the name of the first satellite launched by Soviet Union?
a) Soyuz 1
b) Energia
c) Sputnik 1
d) Angara-1.2
e) Buran
c) Sputnik 1
First Honours Seminar moment: Between which two cities did Eratosthenes measure the circumference of the Earth?
a) Athens and Cairo
b) Alexandria and Pompei
c) Rome and Carthage
d) Alexandria and Syene
e) Athens and Alexandria
d) Alexandria and Syene
Widely considered the father of computer science, name the mathematician who helped decypher the german encryption machine, Enigma, during World War Two
a) Albert Eistein
b) Michio Kaku
c) Alan Turing
d) Rober Oppenheimer
e) Yoshua Bengio
c) Alan Turing
Name one place where extranuclear genes can be found.
a) Peroxisome
b) Cytoplasm
c) Chloroplasts
d) Microfilaments
c) Chloroplasts
What is the probability of rolling a 3, a 5, and then a 3 again in that specific order on a 7-faced die?
a) (1/3)^7
b) 3/7!
c) 4!/7!
d) (1/7)^3
d) (1/7)^3
Who was the first person to go to space and orbit the Earth?
a) Neil Armstrong
b) Buzz Aldrin
c) Yuri Gagarin
d) Alan Shepard
e) Jebediah Kerman
c) Yuri Gagarin
Going on with the seminar: why can't CT scans detect breast cancer?
a) Cancerous tissue is transparent to CT waves
b) CT scans only detect electrical signals in the brain
c) Healthy and cancerous tissue have similar densities
d) Breast cancer cells are too small
c) Healthy and cancerous tissue have similar densities
What is the full name of the following acronym, which is used to designate one of the primary components of TVs and screen monitors: LCD
a) Light-colour Diplay
b) Long Crystalisation Display
c) Lenght constant Disaply
d) Liquid Crystal Display
e) Limited Cryogenic Display
d) Liquid Crystal Display
Fill in the blank: ________ forces regroup both London Dispersion forces and Hydrogen bonding.
a) Electromagnetic
b) Covalent
c) Ionic
d) Van der Waals
d) Van der Waals
What does it mean to fail to reject the null hypothesis?
a) There is no scientific proof that the Universe should contain something rather than nothing
b) A sample provided conclusive evidence to demonstrate the absence of an effect
c) A sample did not provide concluding evidence to demonstrate the presence of an effect
d) A sample got less than 60% on the "rejecting the null hypothesis" final exam
c) A sample did not provide concluding evidence to demonstrate the presence of an effect
What is the biggest moon in the Solar system, and which planet does this moon orbit?
a) Titan orbiting Saturn
b) Ganymede orbiting Jupiter
c) Callisto orbiting Jupiter
d) Triton orbiting Neptune
e) The Moon orbiting Earth
b) Ganymede orbiting Jupiter
How do trees access the internet?
a) Through the wood wide web
b) They log in
c) By using their root access
d) Through the development branch
b) They log in
Which number is represented by the following binary code, which is read from left to right, and contains 6 digits: 101000, I repeat, 101000
a) 64
b) 74
c) 32
d) 8
e) 40
e) 40
Name the chemical signals used in: 1) the endocrine system 2)the nervous system.
a) 1) hormones , 2) neurotransmitters
b) 1) proteins, 2) neurotransmitters
c) 1) hormones, 2) proteins
d) 1) neurotransmitters, 2) hormones
e) 1) neurotransmitters, 2) proteins
a) 1) hormones , 2) neurotransmitters
What is the median if we ordered the following sequence: 2, 1, 6, 2, 10, 8
a) 2
b) 4
c) 4.833333
d) 6
e) 8
b) 4
What is the name of the largest known star in the Milky Way?
a) UY Scuti
b) Betelgeuse
c) Stephenson 2-18
d) Antares
e) The Sun
c) Stephenson 2-18
What awards has an EGOT winner won?
a) Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
b) Emmy, Genie, Oscar, Tony
c) Emmy, Golden Globe, Oscar, Tony
d) Matthey Egan's admiration
a) Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Name 4 different programming languages which start with the letter P, we shall also, very exceptionally, consider that scripting languages are programming languages.
a) Processing, Prolog, Python, Pluto
b) Python, Perl, PHP, Pinto
c) PHP, Popeye, Prolog, Pega
d) Python, Perl, Pascal, Pony
d) Python, Perl, Pascal, Pony
What is commensalism in symbiosis?
a) Two species live in direct contact, both benefit from each other
b) Two species live in direct contact, one benefits from the other while the other is harmed
c) Two species live in direct contact, one benefits from the other while the other is unaffected
d) Two species live in direct contact, both are harmed by their interactions
c) Two species live in direct contact, one benefits from the other while the other is unaffected
Why is the following reasoning false? A survey reports that, as ice cream sales increase, the rate of drowning deaths increases sharply. Therefore, ice cream consumption causes drowning.
a) Correlation does not imply causation
b) Causation does not imply correlation
c) It is not the consumption of ice cream that causes drowning. It is the sale of ice cream that causes drowning.
d) The reasoning is actually perfectly correct.
a) Correlation does not imply causation
What is the name of the empirical law predicting the distance of planets from the Sun in the solar system?
a) Titius-Bode's Law
b) Kepler's Law
c) Hubble's Law
d) Lane's Law
e) Brannigan's Law
a) Titius-Bode's Law
What is a duel between 3 people called?
a) A triad
b) A triumvirate
c) A truel
d) A trowel
e) A threesome
c) A truel