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TCP/IP is an example of:

  1. a networking protocol

  2. a 4th generation computer language

  3. a database model

  4. a computing environment


Correct Option: A

What element is name after Copenhagen, Denmark?

  1. Copper

  2. Hafnium

  3. Cobalt

  4. Arsenic


Correct Option: B

Typically, printers are connected to which of the following ports:

  1. COM

  2. LPT

  3. PS/2

  4. RTC


Correct Option: B

Which of the following units is a measure of potential difference?

  1. volt

  2. joule

  3. watt

  4. ohm


Correct Option: D

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory invented the forerunner of the PET, which was subsequently found to be well- suited for wide use in institutions around the world for which of the following:

  1. deep space studies

  2. nuclear spallation

  3. deep sea drilling

  4. metabolic studies and clinical tests


Correct Option: D

Which variety of coal contains the highest percentage of carbon?

  1. Lignite

  2. Bituminous

  3. Peat

  4. Anthracite


Correct Option: D

A primary fuel is that which is used in the same form as it occurs in nature. Which of the following is not a primary fuel?

  1. Natural Gas

  2. Coal

  3. Wood

  4. Kerosene


Correct Option: D

The Department of Energy's B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab is designed to collide electron and positron beams of unequal energies and produce millions of these particles, which are commonly called:

  1. B neutrons

  2. B muons

  3. B leptons

  4. B mesons


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is NOT an example of a transverse wave?

  1. sound wave

  2. microwave

  3. light wave

  4. ocean wave


Correct Option: A

What are three types of lasers?

  1. Gas, solid state, diode

  2. Diode, inverted, pointer

  3. Pointer, diode, CD

  4. Gas, metal vapor, rock


Correct Option: A

Tomorrow's weather forecast report for Venus would be:

  1. cold and clear

  2. snow

  3. overcast and hot

  4. hot and humid with clear skies


Correct Option: C

The first step to getting output from a laser is to excite an active medium. What is this process called?

  1. Raising

  2. Priming

  3. Exciting

  4. Pumping


Correct Option: D

There are currently how many periods on the periodic table?

  1. 9

  2. 8

  3. 7

  4. 6


Correct Option: C

What is the heaviest of the naturally occuring Noble gases?

  1. Argon

  2. Helium

  3. Xenon

  4. Radon


Correct Option: D

A proton has approximately the same mass as

  1. an electron

  2. a beta particle

  3. an alpha particle

  4. a neutron


Correct Option: D

A monitor is rated as 640x480x256 (pronounced 640 by 480 by 256). What does the 256 stand for?

  1. 256 colors associated with the pixels

  2. 256 pixels diagonally

  3. 256 pixels vertically

  4. 256 pixels horizontally


Correct Option: A

What was the first element to be produced artificially?

  1. Technetium

  2. Francium

  3. Neptunium

  4. Plutonium


Correct Option: A

How many moons does Pluto have (found by year 2000)?

  1. 1

  2. 4

  3. 16

  4. 32


Correct Option: A

Aspirin can be found in many household medicine cabinets. But what is it chemically?

  1. Ibuprofen

  2. Acetaminophen

  3. Acetylsalicylic acid

  4. Paracetamol


Correct Option: C

An autoclave is designed to sterilize with:

  1. Dessication

  2. Boiling water

  3. Steam and pressure

  4. Dry heat and methane gas


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is measured in Hertz?

  1. speed

  2. frequency

  3. amplitude

  4. wavelength


Correct Option: B

Physicists most commonly call a mass moving in a straight line path as having:

  1. second order momentum

  2. translational momentum

  3. straight momentum

  4. angular or rotational momentum


Correct Option: B

Using the binary system, a 1 kilobyte file contains how many bytes:

  1. 512

  2. 1024

  3. 1.44

  4. 256


Correct Option: B

If you wanted to lighten your hair at home, what is the active ingredient in the dye preparation that will lighten your hair?

  1. Phenol

  2. Sodium hydroxide

  3. Acetic acid

  4. Hydrogen peroxide


Correct Option: D

Breaking of a larger hydrocarbon molecule into a smaller one by heating in the presence of a catalyst is called _________________.

  1. Thermogenation

  2. Centrifugation

  3. Cracking

  4. Orthofugation


Correct Option: C

Which planet takes 248.5 earth years to go round the sun?

  1. Saturn

  2. Uranus

  3. Pluto

  4. Neptune


Correct Option: C

"Antifreeze" is used in car radiators to stop the liquid that cools the engine from, well, freezing when it gets cold outside. Water is one component of antifreeze; what is the other main component?

  1. Benzene

  2. Sodium chloride

  3. Acetone

  4. Ethylene glycol


Correct Option: D

When alpha particles are used to bombard gold foil, most of the alpha particles pass through undeflected. This result indicates that most of the volume of a gold atom consists of ______________.

  1. unoccupied space

  2. protons

  3. neutrons

  4. deuterons


Correct Option: A

What large machine, which came on line in the summer of 2000 at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Lab, is the world's highest energy ion collider?

  1. Phoenix

  2. Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

  3. CERN supercollider

  4. Advanced Photon Source


Correct Option: B

What is the lightest element with an atomic symbol not related to its English name?

  1. Tungsten (W)

  2. Iron (Fe)

  3. Sodium (Na)

  4. Potassium (K)


Correct Option: C

In beta minus emission, the number of nucleons in the atom:

  1. remains the same

  2. increases by four

  3. decreases by one

  4. decreases by one


Correct Option: A

The atom's nucleus is held together by which of the following:

  1. strong interactions of the lepton and gluon constituents of the atom's nucleus

  2. weak interactions of the quark and lepton constituents of the atom's nucleus

  3. strong interactions of the quark and lepton constituents of the atom's nucleus

  4. strong interactions of the quark and gluon constituents of the atom's nucleus


Correct Option: D

Compared to the charge and mass of a proton, an electron has

  1. the same charge and a smaller mass

  2. the same charge and the same mass

  3. an opposite charge and a smaller mass

  4. an opposite charge and the same mass


Correct Option: C

Which of the following correctly describes STP?

  1. 4oC at 1 Atmosphere

  2. 0oC at 1 Atmosphere

  3. 23oC at 1 Atmosphere

  4. 0oC at 0 Atmosphere


Correct Option: B

Bleach is another useful household chemical. It is often referred to as "chlorine bleach". What is the main component of household bleach?

  1. Sodium hydroxide

  2. Hydrochloric acid

  3. Sodium hypochlorite

  4. Sodium chloride


Correct Option: C
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