Endocrinology
Secreted by beta cells in the pancreas, this hormone lowers blood glucose.
Insulin
NaOH (aq) is added to a salt solution. Green precipitate forms. What is the cation?
Fe2+
These 3 languages create the structure, style and interactivity of every modern webpage.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
The person on the American $10 bill.
Alexander Hamilton
J.K. Rowling’s 7-book series follows the boy wizard’s battle against Voldemort.
Harry Potter
This master gland in the brain controls other endocrine glands via releasing hormones.
Pituitary gland
Which is the weakest fundamental force?
(Hint: The fundamental forces are gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force)
Gravitational force
What is the sum of the numbers 1 + 2 + 3 +…+ 99 + 100?
5050
Fought from 4 to 7 Jun 1942, this battle was the turning point in the Pacific Theatre.
Battle of Midway
Jane Austen’s 1813 novel about Elizabeth Bennet rejecting Mr. Darcy’s first proposal.
Pride and Prejudice
This hormone increases reabsorption of water in the kidneys to make urine more concentrated.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
A reaction where rate doubles when concentration doubles follows this molecularity order.
First-order reaction
Tap your phone to this on posters for instant website links, event details, or contact info. It was also used for STEM Council’s open house.
NFC tag
This 1961 event saw 1400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles land in Cuba to spark an anti-Castro uprising.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Jules Verne’s 1864 novel sends Professor Lidenbrock through an Icelandic volcano to dinosaurs below.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
In females, this hormone from the corpus luteum maintains the uterine lining if pregnancy occurs.
Progesterone
Per special relativity, no object exceeds this speed.
Speed of light (3.00 × 108 m/s)
This Australian UCLA professor proved with Ben Green that primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
Terrence Tao
From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ____________ has descended across the continent.
iron curtain
This book by Gaston Leroux was adapted into a musical with a song called “Music of the Night”.
The Phantom of the Opera
Excess growth hormone before puberty causes this overgrowth disorder.
Gigantisism
Name one of the types of doped semiconductors.
n-type/p-type
State the first 10 digits of pi.
3.141592653
Launched on 16 Dec 1944, this was Hitler’s final major Western Front push before Allied victory.
Battle of the Bulge
This blind poet composed the Iliad and Odyssey, ancient Greece’s epic foundational myths.
Homer