Biology
Physics
Chemistry
Math
Real Life
100
This organism is a classic example of something that blurs the line between living and nonliving in the microscopic world
What is a virus
100
The 3 basic components of an atom
What is Neutron, Electron, and Proton
100
The most abundant element in the universe
What is Hydrogen?
100
These six words for the acronym of PEMDAS
What is parenthesis, exponent, multiplication, division, additional, subtraction?
100
These are 3 branches of government in the US
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
200
This organelle holds acid and breaks down cellular material
What is lysosomes
200
This famous scientist is known for contributing efforts to cancer research through radioactive materials such as radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie? (The “mother of modern physics” and one of only 4 people in history to have won multiple Nobel prizes.)
200
The element was first discovered on the sun before on earth?
What is Helium? (helios, greek god of the sun)
200
The first 8 digits of pi
What is 3.1415926?
200
The team recently won the 2023-2024 NCAA men’s basketball championship?
What is UConn? (University of Connecticut)
300
The male reproductive organ of a flower
What is stamen
300
These are subatomic particles that carry fractional charges and have names such as up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom
What are Quarks?
300
What type of reaction is this?
SN1 reaction
300
Two people considered to be the founder of calculus (one name is enough)
Who is Isaac Newton/Gottfried Leibniz?
300
The smallest continent on Earth
What is Oceania?
400
The sequence in mRNA that is the site of translation in Eukaryotic organisms.
What is the Kozak Sequence
400
A principle in physics one can know either the momentum or position of a particle, but not both
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle?
400
The only letter that does not appear in the periodic table
What is J?
400
What is wrong with this proof?
a=b
You cannot divide by zero in line 3, breaking the rules of math leads to weird consequences.
400
The country responsible for producing most of the world’s semiconductor chips.
What is Taiwan?
500
The smallest bone in the human body
What is the Stapes?
500
This field in particle physics is found virtually everywhere, slowing down particles and giving particles such as quarks and electrons their mass
What is the Higgs Field?
500
What was the first synthetic element created in a laboratory?
Technitium
500
This theoretical shape has infinite surface area but a finite volume. (Hint: It's contains the name of an Archangel)
What is Gabriel’s Horn
500
Name two current US supreme court justices.
John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States,
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,
Elena Kagan, Associate Justice,
Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice,
Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice,
Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice,
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice,