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200

This gas is absorbed by trees during photosynthesis.

What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?

200

The companies HP, Microsoft, and Apple were all famously started in one of these.

What is a garage?

200

This big cat serves as the proud mascot of Texas A&M University-San Antonio

What is the Jaguar?

200

Jim Parsons won four Emmys for playing a theoretical physicist at Caltech on this long-running CBS sitcom.

What is The Big Bang Theory?

200

What does ACSM stand for?

What is American College of Sports Medicine

400

This contains the genetic instructions used to build and maintain an organism.

What is DNA?

400

Linus Torvalds released the first version of this open-source operating system kernel in 1991.

What is Linux?

400

Proposed by Senator Frank Madla in the late '90s, this university first opened as a center at this local college in 2000.

What is Palo Alto College?

400

Bryan Cranston's character, Walter White, used his expert knowledge of this specific scientific field to build an illicit empire in Breaking Bad.

What is chemistry?

400

What does VO2 Max Measure?

What is it measures the maximal amount of oxygen your body can utilize at intense level exercise

600

These are single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus.

What are Prokaryotes?

600

This video game console was released in the mid-2000s and was a pioneer in using motion controls.

What is the Nintendo Wii?

600

This annual tradition brings the campus together to honor the university’s founding with a festive, egg-cracking celebration.

What is Festival de Cascarones?

600

In the 2023 biopic Oppenheimer, this theoretical physicist is shown leading the Manhattan Project at a laboratory in this New Mexico location.

What is Los Alamos?

600

What are stage 1 hypertension levels?

What is 130-139/ 80-89

800

This type of reaction breaks molecules into smaller units and releases energy.

What is an exothermic reaction?

800

According to ______'s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip roughly doubles every two years, driving rapid advancements in computing power.

What is Moore's Law?

800

A pivotal moment for growth occurred in 2007 when the university received this "grounded" contribution.

What is a major land donation?

800

To ensure the scientific accuracy of the black hole "Gargantua" in the film Interstellar, director Christopher Nolan hired this real-life Nobel Prize-winning physicist as a consultant.

Who is Kip Thorne? (Film: Interstellar)

800

What class lever has force in the middle?

What is third class lever

1000

This is the approximate length of the adult small intestine, responsible for digestion and nutrient absorption.

What is about 6–7 meters (roughly 20 feet)?

1000

During WWII, this British mathematician cracked the Enigma cipher and laid the theoretical groundwork for modern computing.

Who is Alan Turing?

1000

While the school existed earlier, it was this year that TAMUSA welcomed its inaugural class of first-year and transfer students.

What is 2016?

1000

In the 2014 film The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne portrays this physicist whose doctoral thesis was on the properties of expanding universes.

Who is Stephen Hawking?

1000

 What is a bi-product of anaerobic respiration?

What is lactic acid

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