Math
What is a complex number?
This is the force that opposes your weight on the ground - or any other surface, for that matter.
What is the normal force?
Variations of an element with the same number of protons but differing numbers of neutrons are referred to as this.
What are isotopes?
This biologist is a foremost expert on primate behavior.
Who is Jane Gooddall?
This category of organism both lives and feeds on a host, and includes ticks and mistletoe. It's also the name of an award-winning movie.
What is a parasite?
Anything raised to the zero power is equal to this value.
What is one?
This force opposes motion through the air.
What is air resistance?
This chemical smells like rotten eggs.
What is sulfur?
This base pairs with thymine in DNA but uracil in RNA.
What is adenine?
This historical artifact was recently removed from its post across from the lawn.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This self-educated mathematician and astronomer is credited with building America's first clock.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
The alpha particle is basically the nucleus of this element.
What is helium?
This is the energy available for a system to do work.
What is Gibbs Free Energy?
Most of a cell's water passes through its membrane by this process.
What is diffusion?
This engineer and physician became the first African-American woman in space.
Who is Mae Carol Jemison?
This English mathematician and computer programmer wrote the world's first algorithm and used it to compute Bernoulli numbers.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of this quantity are called snap, crackle, and pop, respectively.
What is position?
This method is used to determine the concentration of an unknown solution by using a standard solution with a known concentration of some reagent. The fun part of this process is that the chemicals turn interesting colors.
What is titration?
This agricultural scientist studied soil chemistry and discovered that growing nitrogen-fixating crops such as legumes could restore nutrients to soil left depleted by growing cotton.
Who is George Washington Carver?
On other planets with high-pressure atmospheres, scientists have demonstrated in the lab that it may rain this valuable carbon crystal.
What are diamonds?
This African-American mathematician invented the Ilusion Transmitter, which is the basis for modern 3D imaging technology.
Who is Valerie Thomas?
Max Born was a famous physicist, but his granddaughter is a far more famous musician and actress who sang, among other things, "You're the One I Want" in Grease (1978).
Who was Olivia Newton-John?
This is the most electronegative element, and is also a common ingredient in toothpaste.
What is fluorine?
This African-American biologist and biochemist is known as the "Father of Bioluminescence"
Who is Emmett Chappelle?
This is the oldest secret society at UVA.
What is the Eli Banana society?