Operational General Science Interview Questions & Answers:

1. Order the following elements in dry weight per cent make-up in the human body, from the HIGHEST percent to the LOWEST percent content: Calcium; Nitrogen; Carbon; Magnesium:

Carbon; Nitrogen; Calcium; Magnesium

2. There are several types of these systems commonly used in intranets designed to prevent unauthorized access by internet users to or from a private network:

Firewall

3. What were the two most valuable products derived from the tree Castanea americana?

Chestnuts And Wood

4. Air on Earth consists mainly of three gases. Give their percent composition rounded off to the nearest whole number:

78% Nitrogen; 21% Oxygen; And 1% Argon

5. A common type of RAM that is a small battery-backed memory that stores configuration settings is called:

Cmos

6. No reported cases of this pervasive and deadly disease has been reported in the western hemisphere for over two decades and it is believed to be nearly eliminated from the Earth:

Smallpox

7. Order the following from the SMALLEST unit of distance to the LARGEST:

mile, rod, feet, furlong.

Answer: Feet, Rod, Furlong, Mile

8. What is the largest possible 8 bit binary number?

11111111

9. A term coined by Jack Niles in the early 1970s to describe an office where workers can work at home on a computer and transmit data and documents to a central office via telephone lines, is:

Telecommuting

10. Juglans nigra is the genus and species of what common name tree, whose wood is prized for its qualities in furniture making:

Black Walnut