Questions 2nd Dec 2010

Q1. Which Indian filmmaker wrote the script "The Alien", which never became a film but may have inspired Spielberg's "E. T"?

Q2. What is the approximate value of the Golden Ratio or the Golden Mean, also known as "phi"? (atleast upto three decimals)?

Q3. Name the library and scientific institution in Baghdad that acted as the main intellectual centre of the "Islamic Golden Age".

Q4. What part of the biological cell is referred to as the "power house" of the cell"?

Q5. Hubble Space Telescope will come to the end of its life in 2014. Name the space based observatory that will succeed it.