NSBE Facts
SAT Math
SAT Writing
Black Engineers, Scientists, & Inventors
Technology
100
The RPI chapter of NSBE is in this region.
What is region 1?
100
A special lottery is to be held to select the student who will live in the only deluxe room in a dormitory. There are 100 seniors, 150 juniors, and 200 sophomores who applied. Each senior's name is placed in the lottery 3 times; each junior's name, 2 times; and each sophomore's name, 1 time. What is the probability that a senior's name will be chosen?
What is 3/8?
100
There IS many benefits to running because it is both a rigorous FORM of exercise and a natural STRESS-REDUCER; not only DO runners experience heart health, but lung functioning increases, too. NO ERROR
What is IS?
100
This inventor discovered over 300 different uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
WWW stands for this.
What is the World Wide Web?
200
This Region 4 university is home to the first NSBE chapter.
What is Purdue University?
200
Mon: 69 Tue: 70 Wed: 78 Thurs: 66 Fri: 77 Sat: 75 Sun: 78 Above are the temperatures for the week. Order the Median, Average, and Mode temperatures from least to greatest.
a < m < f
200
Despite HAVING HAD no formal training, Heather was NONETHELESS ABLE TO MASTER the piano by listening TO RECORDINGS, watching instructional videos, and SHE PRACTICED on her own many hours a day. NO ERROR.
What is SHE PRACTICED?
200
Regarded as the first African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire, she developed a hair care system and other beauty products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
200
Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are all types of these.
What are web browsers?
300
This summer program is designed to increase 3rd - 8th grade students' aptitude and interest in STEM.
What is Seek?
300
f(x) = x² - 7x + 10 and f(t+1) = 0, what is one possible value of t?
What is 1 or 4?
300
The artist's RECURRING USAGE of pale colors and shapeless forms, designed TO INFUSE his paintings with a SENSE OF AMBIGUITY, only makes his pieces look WEAKLY. NO ERROR
What is WEAKLY?
300
She became the first Black woman to travel in space on September 12th 1992.
Who is Mae Carol Jemison?
300
He was one of the founders of Microsoft Corporation.
Who is Bill Gates or Paul Allen?
400
Founded in 1975, NSBE is a non-profit organization completely run by these individuals.
Who are NSBE's undergraduate/graduate student Members?
400
If x > 1 and (√x/x³) = x^m, what is the value of m?
What is -5/2?
400
After arguing AT GREAT LENGTH about the play's merits, BOTH Alice and Olivia were frustrated; FINALLY, Alice decided that SHE was right. NO ERROR.
What is SHE?
400
She was the first African-American female Ph.D graduate of MIT & is the current President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson
400
This is the worlds largest online shop.
What is Amazon?
500
This NSBE PCI magazine was first published in 1990.
What is the NSBE Bridge?
500
If two sides of a triangle have lengths 5 and 6, the perimeter of the triangle could be which of the following? A. 11 B. 15 C. 24
What is 15?
500
NOT everyone WOULD AGREE that Leonard Whiting's performance in Romeo and Juliet WAS superior to LEONARDO DICAPRIO. NO ERROR
What is LEONARDO DICAPRIO?
500
This group of engineers founded a black engineering society which has become one of the largest student run organizations in the nation.
Who are the Chicago Six?
500
This is the official name for the 'brain' of a computer.
What is the CPU?
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