cHeMiSty and chem__
Aurum was the old Latin name used in chemistry for which precious metal?
Gold
Named for a brand of toys, what chain of theme parks has locations in Billund, Denmark; Carlsbad, California; and Dubai, UAE, among others?
Legoland
Topping accelerating speeds of 128 mph, engineers at Intamin Amusement Rides designed the 456-foot Kingda Ka – which opened as the world’s tallest and fastest rollercoaster at what numerically-named “Great Adventure” amusement park in New Jersey in 2005?
Six Flags
Formally adopted by the state government in 1911, what animal is prominently featured on the state flag of California?
Bear
One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?
1k
What common kitchen ingredient is crucial to the human body’s chemistry?
Salt (The human body contains many types of salts, but the primary is NaCL, or sodium chloride, also known as common table salt.)
What name is shared by the capital of Costa Rica and the most populous city in Northern California?
San Jose
What New Jersey-based university, whose athletic nickname is the Scarlet Knights, was known as Queen's College from 1766 until taking on its current name in 1825?
Rutgers U
While often confused with llamas, what breed of camelid is used for fleece production, while it's cousin the llama is not?
Alpaca
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
Who is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice?
Marie Curie -- She was the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and again in 1911 for Chemistry.
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the largest solar power plant in the world, is located in which California desert? It is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Mohave Desert
What New Jersey university has, at over $4 million each, the largest endowment per student in the United States?
Princeton U
What is the three-letter name of the second-tallest (standing) bird on the planet? This animal is found only in Australia and is related to the ostrich.
Emu
In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie?
Emojis
Organic chemistry is centered around what two elements?
Carbon and Hydrogen
What California island, notorious for other reasons, was occupied for over a year in 1969 and 1970 by activists associated with the American Indian Movement?
Alcatraz
At a length of 1,908 miles, what is the longest north-south interstate highway in the US? The highway was not fully completed until 2018 when a gap in New Jersey was filled and it now fully connects Florida to Maine while serving all major cities from Jacksonville to Washington to New York to Boston to Portland.
I-95
Spotted, striped and black are species belonging to which mammalian family? Members of this family, though dog-like in appearance, are more closely related to cats than dogs. In the Disney movie “The Lion King”, a character voiced by Whoopi Goldberg is a member of this family.
Hyena
Which American tech company started with its founders' idea to rent out an air mattress in their San Fransisco living room to travelers hoping to avoid the city's high cost of rent?
Airbnb
Who is considered the "father" of organic chemistry?
Friedrich Wöhler
The University of California San Diego's Library is named for a writer who might be better recognized by what pen name?
Dr. Suess
There is an unincorporated community in New Jersey that took its name from a town in California and is popularity associated with the "Wizard" Thomas Edison. What is the name of this community?
Menlo Park
Big hairy and greater fairy are larger species of what mammals whose name means "little armored ones"?
Armadillos
That connects: in an August 2021 blog post, CEO Ryan Roslansky approved permanent remote work for employees of what business-oriented social network company?