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Culinary
100
This equation describes kinematic displacement (using acceleration)
Δx = v₀·t + ½·a·t²
100
Newton's Laws of motion
100
This physicist is famous for her work on radioactivity
Marie Curie
100
Who was accredited with building the atomic bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
100
Alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in a coffee-liqueur combo with mascarpone cheese and chocolate gets you this uplifting Italian dessert
Tiramisu
200
This is the speed of sound in air at 20 degrees Celcius
343 m/s
200
This law states that heat will always flow in a direction from hot objects to colder ones but never the other way around
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
200
This 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics winner won her prize for pioneering chirped pulse amplification and even spoke here at UWL in 2023
Donna Strickland
200
This philosopher was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock
Socrates
200
What herb do some people complain about tasting like soap?
Cilantro (coriander)
300
This equation describes the impulse on a hoop about a cylindrical axis
I = MR2
300
n1sinθ1= n2sinθ2
Snell's Law
300
What are 2 of the "hidden figures" that helped America land on the Moon?
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson
Katherine Goble Johnson
Christine Darden
300
This Norse explorer was thought to have set foot on America before Christopher Columbus.
Leif Erickson
300
Delavan, Wisconsin, not South America, is the location of the factory that produces this brand of rectangular chocolate mint candies
Andes
400
This equation describes constructive interference for Young's double slit experiement
|r2 - r1| = mλ
400
This law in it's simplest form, describes induction by relatinf the emf induced in a circuit to the rate of change of magnetic flux through the circuit:
E = -dΦB / dt
Faraday's Law
400
This Austrian-Swedish physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics was best known for discovering protactinium and providing, with her nephew Otto Frisch, the first theoretical explanation for nuclear fission.
Lise Meitner
400
Libya gained independece from Italy in this year (also the year of the first detonation at the Nevada test site)
1951 (within 1 year)
400
What Italian word should refer to an emulsion containing only garlic and olive oil?
Aioli
500
This is the gravitational constant
6.673 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2
500
This principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same quantum number, creating spin up and spin down electrons
Pauli Exclusion Principle
500
This northern Irish astrophysicist is best known for discovering the first radio pulsars in 1967 during her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Despite her detection of rapidly rotating neutron stars revolutionized astrophysicist the 1974 Nobel Prize went to her supervisor instead.
Susan Jocelyn Bell
500
One of the earliest recorded clashes between Anglo-Saxon invaders and Britons, fought near the River Medway.
Battle of Aylesford (455)
500
Filo pastry, chopped nuts like walnuts or pistachios, and syrup or honey, are the layers in this traditional Mediterranean dessert?
Baklava