MSE Trivia
What does CMS stand for?
Cornell Materials Society (or Materials Society at Cornell 🤓☝️)
Is this a bra or a ket: <x|
bra (this website didn't let me use an equation i'm sorry) :(
How many bones are there in the human body?
206
What's the best Shrek movie?
Any answer that isn't Shrek 4
We throw this onto the ice when Cornell plays Harvard in hockey
Fish 🐠
How many Bravais lattices are there?
14
How many 2x2 Pauli matrices are there?
3
All snowflakes have this type of symmetry (bonus points if you know what phase of ice generates snowflakes!)
6-fold, ice Ih
What's Walter White's nickname in Breaking Bad?
Heisenberg
This food was invented at Cornell
Coordination number of a bcc structure
14 (will also accept 8... begrudgingly)
What's the value of h?
h = 6.626 * 10^(-34) J-s
Value of kBT at room temperature (eV)
~0.025 eV
This singer did cartwheels on national TV at 8 am and ruined the national anthem at a basketball game
Fergie
Who's the president of CMS?
Anika Jonelagadda (the 🐐)
This is the most brittle microstructure of a conventional steel
Martensite
Helmholtz free energy is useful when which variables are constant?
Volume, Temperature
What element besides Radium did Marie Curie discover?
Polonium
Nintendo was founded the same year that this international landmark was finished being built
The Eiffel Tower
How many steps are in the clock tower?
161
Physical significance of the Fermi level
chemical potential!!!
This is the closest star to our solar system (besides the sun)
Proxima Centauri
This guy was so influential to thermodynamics that he has a fundamental equation written on his tombstone (bonus points if you know the equation)
Ludwig Boltzmann, S = k ln(Omega)
The movie "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on this Shakespearean play
The Taming of the Shrew
Mother