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100
This particle is the most abundant matter particle in the universe.
What is a neutrino?
100
This object in space is so massive and dense that not even light can escape its gravitational force.
What is a black hole?
100
This caterpillar is much loved by all at Fermilab.
What is a monarch butterfly?
100
This Fermilab director from 1967–1978 was also an artist/sculptor.
Who is Robert R. Wilson?
100
In 1974, the National Accelerator Laboratory was renamed in honor of this internationally renowned Italian physicist.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
200
These elementary particles have zero rest mass.
What is a photon and a gluon?
200
This type of matter does not emit light.
What is dark matter?
200
The nut produced by this tree is an important food for wildlife at Fermilab.
What is an oak?
200
This Fermilab artist created Fermilab’s iconic logo.
Who is Angela Gonzales?
200
This scientist became Fermilab's director after Leon Lederman retired in 1989.
Who is John Peoples?
300
Quarks get their masses by interacting with this field.
What is the Higgs field?
300
This is the common name for high-energy protons and nuclei which hit the earth's atmosphere and cause showers of secondary particles.
What are cosmic rays?
300
This second largest rodent in the world, found at Fermilab, is known for building dams.
What is a beaver?
300
Fermilab’s logo is an interpretation of these objects used for bending and focusing beams in particle accelerators?
What are magnets?
300
This president paved the way for the conservation movement, and in 1905, formed the American Bison Society to save the disappearing bison.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
400
These fundamental particles of matter were discovered at Fermilab.
What is a bottom quark, a top quark and a tau neutrino.
400
This digital camera created at Fermilab became the biggest digital camera in the world when it entered service in 2012 at the Blanco telescope.
What is dark energy camera?
400
This plant is used for dying blue jeans.
What is wild indigo?
400
Edward Tufte’s exhibition at Fermilab brought these diagrams to three-dimensional life.
What are Feynman diagrams?
400
Fermilab produced a major discovery in the summer of 1977 when the first evidence for this quark was observed.
What is bottom quark?
500
This force is carried by particles called gluons.
What is the strong nuclear force?
500
The expansion of the universe was first detected by this change in the light spectrum of receding galaxies.
What is a red shift?
500
This plant can orient some of its leaves north-south to prevent water loss.
What is compass plant?
500
This Fermilab structure is made from thousands of empty beverage cans.
What is Geodesic Dome?
500
In 1992, while visiting Fermilab, this inventor of the World Wide Web made the first one-click link between the CERN server and Fermilab’s central computers.
Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee?