BMES(S) Trivia
Biomedical Engineering
General Trivia
Hawkeye Sports
Biology Trivia
100
The president of UIOWA BMESS.
Who is Cole Swanson?
100
A multidisciplinary STEM field that combines biology and engineering, applying engineering principles and materials to medicine and healthcare.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
100
A board game involving two rooks.
What is chess?
100
The name of the University of Iowa's mascot.
What is the name 'Herky'?
100
The organelle nicknamed "the powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondria?
200
The four departments of UIOWA BMESS
What are the Public Relations, Service/Outreach Committee, Social/Fundraising, and Professional Development departments?
200
A UIOWA Biomedical Engineering focus area.
What are bioimaging, biomechanics and biomaterials, cellular engineering, or computational bioengineering?
(any one of above list)
200
The two languages spoken in Canada.
What are English and French?
200
The Iowa Fight Song.
(IDK how to format it in Jeopardy terms, please just sing the song lolz)
What is
"The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for Iowa"
Let every loyal Iowan sing
The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for Iowa"
Until the walls and rafters ring
Come on and cheer, cheer, cheer for Iowa
Come on and cheer until you hear the final gun
The word is "Fight! Fight! Fight! for Iowa"
Until the game is won"
200
The meanings of 'S' and 'R' when specifying the type of endoplasmic reticulum.
What are smooth and rough?
300
The person in charge of meeting notes, maintaining documentation, and updating the BMESS website.
Who is Lauren Bare?
300
A core biomedical engineering course. (A course all BMEs have to take that other engineering disciplines don't).
What is Systems, Bioimaging/Bioinformatics, Biomaterials/Biomechanics, Cell Bio, Foundations of Bio, Principles of Chemistry, etc.
Basically a core BME course within reason.
300
The country Lionel Messi is from. (The national team he plays for)
What is Argentina?
300
The number of high school football games Kinnick Stadium has hosted (±3).
What is 11?
300
The common name of Drosophila melanogaster, a very famous 'model organism'.
What is a fruit fly?
400
The room (number) that UIOWA BMESS general meetings are in.
What is 3505 SC?
400
The median annual income of a Biomedical Engineer in Iowa. (±$3,000)
How much money is $85,381?
400
The country this flag belongs to.
What is Uruguay?
400
The former Iowa football player that became the first black coach in the Big Ten conference.
Who is Dennis Green?
400
A component of the blood whose deficiency can cause Thrombocytopenia, a condition that causes symptoms such as easy bruising or bleeding gums.
Platelets
500
The president of BMES (Not BMESS). I will literally give you 100 points if you even guess their initials.
Who is Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert?
500
UIOWA BME Undergraduate placement rate. (±4%)
What is 91%?
500
A musical term is indicates a chord where the notes are played one after another rather than all together.
What is an arpeggio?
500
Iowa's opponent in 1918 during the Spanish Flu epidemic that was played with no fans in the stands.
What is Coe College?
Fun fact: we beat them 27-0
500
The disease most commonly associated with human gene BRCA1.
What is breast cancer?