Halloween
Chemistry
Material Science
ASU Trivia
Material Advantage
100
To celebrate Halloween, this fruit is traditionally carved with smiles.
What is a Pumpkin?
100
The unit of which atomic masses are measured in.
What is Atomic Mass Unit (AMU) or Daltons (Da)?
100
This atomic structure.
What is BCC?
100
Check out these fall leaves located in ______, AZ. Otherwise known as the home to one of ASU's rivals, NAU.
What is Flagstaff?
100
The name of our first fall semester meeting of 2026.
What is "Kickoff and Cane's"?
200
This 1978 classic features the masked killer Michael Myers stalking teenagers in Haddonfield.
What is Halloween?
200
These are two atoms of the same element that contain different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
200
The mechanical property given by slope of the yellow section.
What is Young's Modulus?
200
ASU researchers at Professor Jeff Yarger's lab study these 8-legged friends to discover how spider silk can transform biomedical materials.
What are spiders?
200
What are the three channels MA students can use to stay up-to-date with general body meetings?
What is Sun Devil Central, Instagram, and Discord?
300
This classic monster is made from the body parts of corpses and brought to life by lightning.
What is Frankenstein's Monster?
300
The working mechanism of optical microscopy?
What is light (and lenses)?
300
The cause of this rusty gargoyle's demise.
What is oxidation reduction (caused by exposure to oxygen and moisture)?
300
According to campus lore at Arizona State University, this historic building on the Tempe campus is famously rumored to be haunted.
What is Old Main?
300
Finish the Quote!
"If there are things about Sedona and Flagstaff that appeal to you, then you will likely enjoy northern _____ - something to think about including in your cover letter. I enjoy the outdoors and the southwest, but much prefer the cooler temps at elevation!"
-Dr. Matthew Kerr (LANL)
What is New Mexico?
400
This colonial Massachusetts town became infamous for its 1692 witch trials.
What is Salem?
400
This noble gas, which gets its name from the Greek word for "strange" or "foreign," glows with a bright eerie light when electrified.
What is Xenon?
400
The mechanical behavior that governed this broken ceramic pumpkin.
What is brittle fracture?
400
Rumors of a ghostly librarian haunts this first official on-campus library at ASU.
What is Matthews Center?
400
Name 3 ASU programs MA encouraged you to apply to during the "All About Labs!" Meeting.
What is FURI, GCSP, ASU/NASA Space Grant, DAAD-Rise, SULI, and SURI.
500
The name "Jack-o'-lantern" comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Jack who tricked this entity.
Who is the Devil?
500
The mechanism that makes glow sticks glow.
500
The image result of running SEM on a non-conductive sample.
What is image blooming, brightness distortion, and artifact streaks?
500
This building next to ASU's Downtown Campus was featured in the movie "Psycho" (both the original film in 1960 and its remake in 1998).
What is Westward Ho?
500
Computer Chip's and Salsa's guest speaker, Dr. Boer Liu, earned her PhD in in _____ Chemistry here at ASU.
What is Polymer?