Yr 13 End of Year Quiz

Question 1

How many Lord of the Rings films are there?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 2

Which part of this equation represents Lenz's law?

Accepted Answer

-

Question 3

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Alessandro Volta

Question 4

Who is Reg Dwight better known as?

Accepted Answer

Elton John

Question 5

1 lightyear ≈

Accepted Answer

9.5x1015m

Question 6

Where was the 2022 Eurovision song contest held?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 7

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Archimedes Principle

Question 8

NASA's Cassini spacecraft explored which planet between 1997 and 2017?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Question 9

Charge of an up quark

Accepted Answer

+\frac{2}{3}e

Question 10

What evidence leads us to believe the universe started with a big bang (as opposed to steady state theory)?

Accepted Answer

Cosmic microwave background radiation

Question 11

Avogadro constant = 6.2x1023mol-1

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

Which King of France was known as the "Sun King"?

Accepted Answer

Louis XIV

Question 13

What happens first during the life-cycle of a star?

Accepted Answer

Main sequence star

Question 14

Which of the following waves cannot be polarised?

Accepted Answer

Radio wave

Question 15

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 16

In Newton's law of gravitation, force is...

Accepted Answer

...inversely proportional to the square of the separation of the objects.

Question 17

Which is the driest non-polar desert on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Atacama desert

Question 18

Which of these satements about electric fields is false?

Accepted Answer

Equally spaced, perpendicular lines represent a uniform field

Question 19

What part of the EM spectrum is the minimum energy in order to see the photoelectric effect in a gold-leaf electroscope?

Accepted Answer

Ultraviolet

Question 20

What is the biggest state in America?

Accepted Answer

Alaska

Question 21

Which star sign has the bull as its symbol?

Accepted Answer

Taurus

Question 22

Which of the following materials could be described as brittle?

Accepted Answer

Ceramic

Question 23

Which of the following would not be a dielectric in a capacitor?

Accepted Answer

Aluminium

Question 24

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Ernest Rutherford

Question 25

Molar Gas Constant

Accepted Answer

8.31Jmol-1K-1

Question 26

The speed of light in a vacuum

Accepted Answer

3.00x108ms-1

Question 27

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 28

Acceleration can be calculated from...

Accepted Answer

...the gradient of a velocity-time graph

Question 29

The SI unit for the moment of a force is...

Accepted Answer

Nm

Question 30

The total resistance across resistors in series is always...

Accepted Answer

...greater than the individual resistances

Question 31

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Mae Jemison

Question 32

What would you use this equiment to investigate?

Accepted Answer

Specific latent heat of vaporisation

Question 33

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Discovery of the electron neutrino

Question 34

What is the core physics behind noise-cancelling headphones?

Accepted Answer

Principle of superposition

Question 35

Who did the alpha-particle scattering experiment?

Accepted Answer

Ernest Rutherford

Question 36

What is this a circuit symbol for?

Accepted Answer

Cell

Question 37

1.6x10-19C

Accepted Answer

Charge of an electron

Question 38

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Michael Faraday's law of induction

Question 39

Which of Newton's laws states an object will move at a constant velocity unless acted upon by a resultant force?

Accepted Answer

Newton's 1st law

Question 40

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Niels Bohr

Question 41

How many sides does a 20 pence piece have

Accepted Answer

7

Question 42

What is defined as the time taken to complete one oscillation?

Accepted Answer

Period

Question 43

What band was Harry Styles in before his solo career?

Accepted Answer

One Direction

Question 44

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Paul Dirac

Question 45

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Heinrich Hertz's discovery of microwaves

Question 46

1eV =

Accepted Answer

1.6x10-19J

Question 47

Which attenuation mechanism occurs when the incident x-ray photon is at a low energy (1-20keV)

Accepted Answer

Simple scatter

Question 48

Who is Miss Pascoe and Miss Warne&#x27;s favourite class?

Accepted Answer

Middle set year 11, Bottom set year 10, Year 13, Top set year 9

Question 49

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Young

Question 50

Conventional current flows...

Accepted Answer

...from positive to negative.

Question 51

Alberta is a provice of which country?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 52

Which is the only venomous snake native to the UK?

Accepted Answer

Adder

Question 53

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Young's wave theory of light

Question 54

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Question 55

What is meteorology the study of?

Accepted Answer

Weather

Question 56

Planck constant

Accepted Answer

6.63x10-34Js

Question 57

What is the name of Batman's butler?

Accepted Answer

Alfred

Question 58

What country won the very first FIFA World Cup in 1930?

Accepted Answer

Uruguay

Question 59

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Michael Faraday

Question 60

What is 180° in radians?

Accepted Answer

π

Question 61

Where is ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 62

Starting off easy: who is this?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 63

What came first?

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein's special relativity

Question 64

What type of energy is defined below?

Accepted Answer

Internal energy

Yr 13 End of Year Quiz

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Yr 13 End of Year Quiz

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