Science Bowl

GENERAL SCIENCE

General Science - 52

GENR-93; Multiple Choice:  What is the phase relationship between the voltage and current in a 
 capacitor? 
 

ANSWER:  X -- CURRENT LEADS BY 90 DEGREES 

 
GENR-93; Short Answer:  Movement exhibited by plants toward the "center of the Earth" is
called? 
 

ANSWER:  GEOTROPISM 

  
GENR-93; Multiple Choice:  In 1991, the frozen body of a late stone age man was found
amazingly  intact in the Alps near the Italian-Austrian border. Its age was determined to be about:  

w)  2,200 years 
x)  5,300 years 
y)  12,800 years 
z)  30,000 years 

ANSWER:  X -- 5,300 YEARS 

 
GENR-93; Multiple Choice:  Who is known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb?   

w)  Albert Einstein 
x)  J. Robert Oppenheimer 
y)  General Leslie Groves 
z)  Edward Teller 

ANSWER:  X -- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER 

  
GENR-93; Multiple Choice:  Dante is the name of an eight-legged robot designed to repel into
the crater of Erebus.  This volcano is located in 

w)  Italy 
x)  the Hawaiian chain 
y)  Antarctica 
z)  Japan 

ANSWER:  Y -- ANTARCTICA