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Phase of cardiac cycle when the ventricles contract and eject blood.

What is ventricular systole?

100

Scale measuring the absolute temperature of a substance

What is Kelvin scale?

100

This UBC campus tradition involves climbing a 12-foot wall

What is Storm the Wall?

100

The year UBC welcomed the new CAPS Major

What is 2024?

100

The Christopher Nolan film that explores the creation of the first atomic bomb during World War II.

What is Oppenheimer?

200

The major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS

What is GABA?

200

Gas that makes up largest part of Earth's atmosphere

What is nitrogen?

200

UBC's official student-run newspaper

What is The Ubyssey?

200

Before becoming its own student association, CAPSSA was previously part of a joint club with this other UBC student association

What is Pharmacology Student Association?

200

This person is considered the "King of Pop"

What is Michael Jackson?

300

The anatomical plane that divides the body into equal left and right portions.

What is midsagittal plane?

300

Epigenetic modification that generally reduces transcription when added to promoter DNA

What is DNA methylation?

300

UBC's current president

What is Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon?

300

UBC CAPS professor that has multiple educational neuroanatomy videos on YouTube with millions of views

What is Claudia Krebs?

300

The 2010 FIFA World Cup Winners

What is Spain?

400

Anatomical name of the only freely movable bone of the skull.

What is the mandible?

400

Law describing how light bends when passing between two media of different refractive indices

What is Snell's Law?

400

This latin phrase phrase is UBC's official motto and translates to "It is yours"

What is Tuum est?

400

Before the program became known as CAPS, courses in the program were identified using this four-letter course-code prefix


What is PHYL?

400

Story where three witches deliver prophecies that help set a Scottish nobleman on a path toward becoming king

What is Macbeth?

500

Condition when blood volume falls enough to reduce venous return and cardiac output.

What is hypovolemic shock?

500

Type of gene that affects multiple distinct traits in an organism

What is pleiotropic gene?

500

UBC alumna that became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

What is Michael Smith?

500

UBC CAPS professor that is one of the authors of the widely popular anatomy textbook, Gray’s Anatomy for Students

What is A. Wayne Vogl?

500

Russian composer who wrote the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty

What is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

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