This organism is a classic example of something that blurs the line between living and nonliving in the microscopic world
What is a virus
The 3 basic components of an atom
What is Neutron, Electron, and Proton
The most abundant element in the universe
What is Hydrogen?
These six words for the acronym of PEMDAS
What is parenthesis, exponent, multiplication, division, additional, subtraction?
These are 3 branches of government in the US
What is the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
This organelle holds acid and breaks down cellular material
What is lysosomes
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.)
The element was first discovered on the sun before on earth?
What is Helium? (helios, greek god of the sun)
The first 8 digits of pi
What is 3.1415926?
The team recently won the 2023-2024 NCAA men’s basketball championship?
What is UConn? (University of Connecticut)
The male reproductive organ of a flower
What is stamen
These are subatomic particles that carry fractional charges and have names such as up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom
What are Quarks?
What type of reaction is this?
SN1 reaction
Two people considered to be the founder of calculus (one name is enough)
Who is Isaac Newton/Gottfried Leibniz?
The smallest continent on Earth
What is Oceania?
The sequence in mRNA that is the site of translation in Eukaryotic organisms.
What is the Kozak Sequence
A principle in physics one can know either the momentum or position of a particle, but not both
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle?
The only letter that does not appear in the periodic table
What is J?
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.
The country responsible for producing most of the world’s semiconductor chips.
What is Taiwan?
The smallest bone in the human body
What is the Stapes?
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?
What was the first synthetic element created in a laboratory?
Technitium
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
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,