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Scientists & Discoveries Trivia Questions
Inquiry and Nature of Science
100

The process where a liquid changes into a gas or vapor.

Evaporation

100

Which state of matter is ice?

Solid

100

What is the chemical formula of diatomic oxygen?

O2

100

This physicist developed the theory of relativity and formulated the famous equation, E=mc^2.

Albert Einstein

100

Which cipher uses matrices to encode/decode words?

Hill cipher

200

This person proved that cholera spreads through contaminated drinking water rather than bad air during a deadly cholera outbreak in London.


John Snow

200

Which reagent is used to test for reducing sugars such as monosaccharides?

Benedict’s (solution)

200

This scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields for her work on radioactivity

Marie Curie

300

Which organelle in the endomembrane system is responsible for the synthesis of lipid and detoxification in plant cells?


Endoplasmic Reticulum

300

This type of star forms when a low- to intermediate-mass star runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core, so it cools and expands to become a _____.

Red giant

300

What is the chemical formula for iron(III) sulfate?


Fe2(SO4)3

300

This Scottish physician and microbiologist suddenly discovered penicillin in 1928 after returning from vacation to find that a mold spore had contaminated a Pretoria dish and killed the surrounding bacteria.

Alexander Fleming

300

What geometric feature must a Revolve sketch not cross?

Axis of revolution

400

This plant hormone triggers seed germination by inducing the synthesis of hydrolytic enzymes like alpha amylase in the aleurone layer of cereal grains.

Gibberllin

400

Name the only two standard amino acids that contain a sulfur atom attached to their side chain.


Cysteine and methionine

400

Which Austrian monk and friar conducted hybridization experiments using pea plants in his monastery, and is widely regarded as the father of modern genetics?

Gregor Mendel

400

When setting up a standard 5x5 Polybius square for a checkerboard cipher, which two letters of the alphabet are traditionally grouped into a single grid coordinate cell?

I and J

500

You observe that a young stellar object (YSO) has both an accretion disk and bipolar jets. Which phase is this object in?


T Tauri

500

What is the name of the law stating that the net electric flux through a closed surface is proportional to the enclosed electric charge?


Gauss’s law

500

This physicist provided the first theoretical explanation for nuclear fission alongside her nephew, Otto Frisch, though was famously excluded from the 1944 Nobel Prize.

Lisa Meitner

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