1) Toss Up - Physics - Short Answer
How many neutrons and how many protons are present in a single tritium nucleus?
ANSWER: TWO NEUTRONS AND ONE PROTON1) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
What is the average acceleration in meters/sec2 of a seagull traveling in a straight path from rest to 36 km/hr in 10 sec?
ANSWER: 1 (Solution: 36 km/hr x 1000 m x 1/3600 s = 10 m/s , 10 m/s 10 = 1 m/s2)2) Toss Up - Physics - Short Answer
What are the four fundamental forces in nature?
ANSWER: GRAVITY, ELECTROMAGNETISM, STRONG, WEAK2) Bonus - Physics - Multiple Choice
Which force is defined as either attractive or repulsive and acts via the photon?
W) STRONG
X) WEAK
Y) ELECTROMAGNETISM
Z) GRAVITY
3) Toss Up - Physics - Short Answer
What is the name of the Scottish physicist who developed the mathematical description of the theory of light?
ANSWER: (JAMES CLERK) MAXWELL3) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
A current of 6 amperes flows through a 2 ohm resistor for 30 seconds. How many coulombs of charge have passed through the resistor?
ANSWER: 180 COULOMBS4) Toss Up - Physics - Short Answer
In a spherical shell with radius of 2 meters a magnetic field with strength of 2 teslas passes though. What is the net magnetic flux?
ANSWER: 04) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
What is the magnitude of the induced current produced as the magnetic field passing through a circle with radius of 2m and resistance of 5 ohms changes from 50 teslas to 25 teslas in 5 seconds to the nearest whole number?
ANSWER: 13 amperes5) Toss Up - General Science - Short Answer
What scientist and student of Freud devoted a great deal of study to mythology, religion, alchemy, and astronomy, to form his theory of personality?
ANSWER: CARL JUNG (ACCEPT: JUNG)5) Bonus - General Science - Multiple Choice
Which of the following weighs the least by volume:
W) aluminum
X) brass
Y) copper
Z) steel
6) Toss Up - Biology - Short Answer
What is the common name for the part of a compound light microscope that functions to converge a light source so that it passes through the specimen:
ANSWER: Condenser6) Bonus - Biology - Short Answer
Black water fever is a complication of malarial infection. The term black water comes from what oxidized product in the urine of infected individuals?
ANSWER: Hemoglobin (accept: met-hemoglobin)7) Toss Up - General Science - Short Answer
Identify the tree family that includes among its members the: fink, myrtle, turkey, jacks, laurel, white, live and pin.
ANSWER: OAK (ACCEPT QUERCUS)7) Bonus - General Science - Multiple Choice
Which of the following vacuum pumps operates by using a very
cold surface to trap the gases on the cold surface?
W) Sublimation pump
X) Turbo pump
Y) Cryopump
Z) Diffusion pump
8) Toss Up - Chemistry - Short Answer
Name all the elements that are liquid at standard temperature and pressure.
ANSWER: Mercury and Bromine8) Bonus - Chemistry - Short Answer
Among the naturally occurring elements, which is the densest?
ANSWER: Osmium9) Toss Up - Physics - Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a gauge boson?
W) gluon
X) photon
Y) Z boson
Z) Higgs boson
9) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
What is the spin number of a gauge boson?
ANSWER: 110) Toss Up - Math - Short Answer
What is the sum of the interior angles in a hexagon?
ANSWER: 720 DEGREES10) Bonus - Math - Short Answer
What is the length of the longest very thin rod that can be placed in a box whose dimensions are 2 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches
ANSWER: 6 INCHES11) Toss Up - Astronomy - Multiple Choice
The plasma flowing from the sun due to the solar wind meets the
earth’s electrical fields in the
W) troposphere.
X) ionosphere.
Y) magnetosphere.
Z) stratosphere.
11) Bonus - Astronomy - Multiple Choice
The Sun’s corona is
W) hotter than the Sun’s visible surface.
X) cooler than the Sun’s visible surface.
Y) in thermal equilibrium with the Sun’s photosphere.
Z) in thermal equilibrium with the Sun’s Chromosphere.
12) Toss Up - Physics - Multiple Choice
If you mix equal amounts of red and blue light, what color is produced?
W) white
X) yellow
Y) magenta
Z) cyan
12) Bonus - Physics - Multiple Choice
If you mix equal amounts of cyan and yellow paint, what color of paint is produced?
W) white
X) red
Y) blue
Z) green
13) Toss Up - Biology - Multiple Choice
Select the incorrect association.
W) cellulose/ polysaccharide
X) glucose/ monosaccharide
Y) glycogen/ monosaccharide
Z) sucrose/ disaccharide
13) Bonus - Biology - Short Answer
Rhodopsin is a pigment found in what photoreceptor of the eye?
ANSWER: ROD14) Toss Up - Biology - Multiple Choice
Which of the following terms refers to a deficiency of blood flow into a part of the body? Is it:
W) intrafusal
X) ischemia
Y) infarct
Z) none of these
14) Bonus - Biology - Multiple Choice
Some bacteria in the colon manufacture
W) peptidases
X) vitamin K
Y) trace elements
Z) essential amino acids
15) Toss Up - Physics - Multiple Choice
In a photoelectric effect experiment, light of a particular frequency is shined onto a metal surface, which releases electrons. Taking which of the following actions would most likely force the metal to produce more electrons per second?
W) Increase the intensity of the light.
X) Decrease the intensity of the light.
Y) Increase the wavelength of the light.
Z) Decrease the wavelength of the light.
15) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
Some anisotropic crystals such as that of boron nitride or calcite show a distinctive feature when a light ray is passed through them- the light ray decomposes into two different light rays. Such anisotropic materials, known for having multiple indices of refraction, is best described as
ANSWER: BIREFRINGENCE/BIREFRINGEN16) Toss Up - Energy - Multiple Choice
The world's largest offshore wind farm at Thanet is located in the North Sea off the coast of what country?
W) France
X) UK
Y) China
Z) Denmark
16) Bonus - Energy - Multiple Choice
The Ruhr, a region heavily dependent on its vast coal reserves is located in which of the following countries?
W) France
X) Germany
Y) Poland
Z) Vatican City
17) Toss Up - Math - Short Answer
Which mathematician is famous for his incompleteness theorems which were published in 1931.
ANSWER: KURT GODEL (ACCEPT: GODEL)17) Bonus - Math - Short Answer
John has a coin that lands heads 80% of the time. What is the expected value of the number of consecutive heads he will flip at the start of throwing the coin.
ANSWER: 418) Toss Up - Computer Science - Multiple Choice
In Java, a vector is different from an array in that:
W) it is unordered
X) it has no API to support it
Y) it can store only integers
Z) its size does not need to be explicitly declared
18) Bonus - Computer Science - Multiple Choice
Which of the following operating systems came first:
W) UNIX
X) Linux
Y) Windows 3.1
Z) OS/2
19) Toss Up - Physics - Multiple Choice
In Rome in 1934, Enrico Fermi bombarded samples of uranium with neutrons. He thought the resulting radioactive products were evidence that he had:
W) fissioned the uranium atoms
X) fused the uranium atoms
Y) created slow neutrons
Z) created elements beyond uranium on the periodic chart
19) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
Order the following from the LOWEST to the HIGHEST temperature: water boils, iron melts, ammonia boils, tin melts
ANSWER: AMMONIA BOILS, WATER BOILS, TIN MELTS, IRON MELTS20) Toss Up - Astronomy - Multiple Choice
The lowest temperature of bluish stars is about:
W) 21,000° F
X) 25,000° F
Y) 36,000° F
Z) 45,000° F
20) Bonus - Astronomy - Short Answer
A red shift of z = 1.0 means the original wavelength has increased by what multiple?
ANSWER: 2 TIMES21) Toss Up - Chemistry - Multiple Choice
Which of the following molecules can NOT be isolated as an optically pure sample?
W) Valine [V^AL-een]
X) Tartaric acid
Y) Epichlorohydrin [ep-i-klawr-uh-HY-drin]
z) 7rans-4-chlorocyclohexanol [klohr-oh-SY-kloh-HEK-suh-nol]
21) Bonus - Chemistry - Short Answer
What two chemists, in 2001, were awarded half the Nobel Prize for their work on asymmetric hydrogenation?
ANSWER: KNOWLES AND NOYORI22) Toss Up - Physics - Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an example of a transverse wave:
W) ocean wave
X) light wave
Y) microwave
Z) sound wave
22) Bonus - Physics - Short Answer
What is the following statement most commonly known as: “A body immersed in a fluid is supported by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.”
ANSWER: ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE23) Toss Up - Math - Short Answer
What is the angle formed, in degrees, between the hour and minute hand of an analog clock at 10:30 AM?
ANSWER: 13523) Bonus - Math - Short Answer
Arrange the following 4 radicals in order of increasing value: `root6(12); root6(63); root3(2); root4(8)`
ANSWER: `root3(2); root6(12); root4(8); root6(63)`24) Toss Up - Math - Short Answer
What is the slope of a vector in standard position with an angle of 45° below the positive x axis?
ANSWER: -124) Bonus - Math - Short Answer
Solve the following equation for x: `2sqrt(x) = x - 15`
ANSWER: x = 25 (DO NOT ACCEPT: x = 9)25) Toss Up - Chemistry - Multiple Choice
In a high-spin octahedral complex, the number of unpaired electrons in Fe(II) (read: Iron two) will be
W) 0
X) 2
Y) 4
Z) 6
25) Bonus - Chemistry - Short Answer
What is the highest possible oxidation state for palladium?
ANSWER: +4