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100
When someone says that you have brown eyes, they mean that this part of your eye is brown.
What is the iris?
100
The number of oxygen atoms present in 2 moles of phosphoric acid.
What is 4.82e24?
100
You weigh 80kg are standing on a building that is 60 meters tall. Your potential energy on the cliff is ____J if your potential energy on the ground is zero joules.
What is about 48000J?
100
The equal sign in computer science
What is assignment statement/operator?
100
He gave a famous speech entitled "I Have a Dream" on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
In RNA, adenine is paired with uracil while guanine is paired with this.
What is cytosine?
200
This term refers to a solution with a comparatively lower concentration of solutes compared to another
What is hypotonic?
200
In electrostatics, the variable "epsilon naught" represents a quanitity also known as this.
What is the permittivity of free space or the vacuum permittivity or the electric constant?
200
In the programming language which was named using an abbreviation of the phrase "Matrix Laboratory," this happens when you have a matrix A and you write "A.^2" instead of "A^2" in the command window and press ENTER.
What is "prints a matrix that is made of the squares each element of A instead of performing matrix multiplication on A"?
200
He attended the same high school and lived in the same freshman dorm as the HSBSE Social Chair. He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard College and eventually became the dean of Howard University School of Law.
Who is Richard Theodore Greener?
300
The full name of the nucleotide that contains a large amount of chemical energy stored in its high-energy phosphate bonds. It releases energy when it is hydrolyzed into ADP.
What is adenosine triphosphate?
300
A device used to measure the heat transfer between system and surroundings at constant volume.
What is a bomb calorimeter?
300
The electrons on a charged conducting sphere are located here.
What is the surface of the sphere?
300
If an augmented matrix in row echelon form has a bottom row [0 0 0 0 | 6], we can conclude that the system has this many solutions.
What is zero?
300
Born in Detroit Michigan, this neurosurgeon performs nearly 300 surgeries a year and is famous for separating craniopagus twins.
Who is Ben Carson?
400
The 4th and last phase of mitosis where the two daughter nuclei are formed, the cytoplasm divides, forming two complete daughter cells.
What is telophase?
400
There are 8 elements knowns as "noble metals" and they do not rust. Name 3 of them.
What is ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum and gold?
400
Light with a wavelength that is greater than 750 nanometers
What is infrared light?
400
The subarea of algebra, in which the values of the variables are the truth values true and false, usually denoted 1 and 0.
What is Boolean algebra?
400
These men started The Niagara Movement, a black civil rights organization which got its name from the group's first meeting location, Niagara Falls. This collective later became the N.A.A.C.P. Name one of them.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois or William Monroe Trotter?
500
In 2010, this genome pioneer took another step in his quest to create synthetic life by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell. He called the result a "synthetic cell."
Who is J. Craig Venter?
500
Mechanism that involves the formation of an ester from a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. The mechanism is an acid promoted acyl substitution, which results in the substitution of an alkoxy group for the hydroxyl portion of the carboxyl group.
What is Fischer esterification?
500
The physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein in the paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies".
What is special relativity?
500
The effect that refers to when a light-emitting diode is forward-biased (switched on) and electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons.
What is electroluminescence?
500
After she was expatriated to France, she famously smuggled military intelligence to French allies during World War II. She did this by pinning secrets inside her dress, as well as writing them in invisible ink on her sheet music.
Who is Josephine Baker?
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