Math
What theorem states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse?
Pythagorean theorem
What is the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze River
Which Chinese dynasty was the first to unify China under a centralized imperial government?
Qin Dynasty
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
Solve for x:
2x + 3 = 11
x = 4
What is the name of the number defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter?
Pi
Which country has the most natural lakes?
Canada
Which ancient civilization is credited with developing the first known system of writing called cuneiform?
Sumerians
Which enzyme is responsible for unwinding the DNA helix during replication?
Helicase
What is the volume of a cube with side length 5?
125
Which mathematician proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers?
Euclid
Which island country lies just south of the Arabian Peninsula?
Madagascar
Which philosopher is considered the father of modern political liberalism and wrote “Two Treatises of Government”?
John Locke
What is the name of the lipid molecule that forms the structural basis of steroid hormones?
Cholesterol
In a right triangle, if the legs are 6 and 8, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
10
What is the name of the geometric figure defined as the set of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and a fixed line (the directrix)?
Parablola
What is the smallest independent country in the world by land area?
Vatican City
What was the event in 1054 that led to the split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches?
Great Schism (East-West Schism)
In molecular genetics, what is the term for a sequence of three nucleotides that specifies a particular amino acid?
Codon
What is the derivative of:
f(x) = x²
2x
What theorem states that every continuous function from a closed interval to the real numbers attains a maximum and minimum?
Extreme Value Theorem
Which city is known as the “Venice of the North” due to its many canals?
Amsterdam
Who was the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt?
Cleopatra VII
Which cycle in cellular respiration produces the most NADH molecules?
Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle)
Find the sum of the first 10 prime numbers.
129