Science
Research
Houston, TX
MD Anderson
Wild Card
100

Type of cancer that involves the skin's pigment cells.

Melanoma

100

The first part of the scientific method.

Question

100

Houston is often called the ____________ City.

Bayou or Space

100

MD Anderson is a part of this university system.

The University of Texas

100

This country invented tea.

China

200

The longest cell type in the human body.

Neuron

200

Process in which individuals in the same or a similar field evaluate scientific work.

Peer Review

200

Name one of Houston's airports

IAH (Bush Intercontinental) or HOU (Hobby)

200

Dr. Jim Allison won one of these prestigious prizes.

Nobel

200

The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie

300

A Geiger counter is used to measure this potential hazard.

Radiation

300

The term used to explain that scientific experiments and data should be able to be completed again with the same results

Reproducibility 

300

Houston is home to the largest _______ center in the world.

Medical

300

Peter Pisters is the current ________ of MD Anderson.

President

300

The video game when Super Mario first appeared.

Donkey Kong

400

This type of microscope removes out of focus light by using a pinhole.

Confocal microscope

400

A statistically significant test result has a P value less than or equal to ____.

P < 0.05

400

The Astros play here.

Minute Maid Park

400

Caring, integrity, stewardship, discovery and _______ are our core values. 

Safety

400

On average, it takes this long to hard boil an egg.

7 minutes

500

This type of imaging detects emissions of radiotracers in a system.

Positron emission tomography (PET)

500

A ____ hypothesis states that there is no relationship between two population parameters.

Null

500

Only in the Houston metro area (or some other Texas towns) will you find people calling a frontage road this. 

Feeder road

500

This is the year MD Anderson was founded.

1941

500

This chess piece can only move diagonally. 

Bishop

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