Scientists touch grass
Have you cited her?
Gene or Pokemon?
Oops I did it again
Not significant
200
In Barbie, this actor plays Ken and somehow turned the phrase “I am Kenough” into merchandise, memes and an existential philosophy
Who is Ryan Gosling?
200
Her X-ray diffraction image known as Photo 51 provided crucial evidence for DNA's helical structure. - crucial enough to be stolen and never credited
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
PIKACHURIN
Gene
200
You measured 5,000 cells from one mouse and triumphantly announce n = 5,000. Unfortunately, your true biological sample size is this
What is 1?
200
You tested 20 hypotheses and proudly report the one with p = 0.04 while quietly burying the other 19. This questionable practice is sometimes described using this aquatic term
What is p-hacking/fishing?
400
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is being jointly hosted by three countries - the US, Mexico and _____
What is Canada?
400
Working with maize, this geneticist discovered “jumping genes,” or transposable elements, decades before genome sequencing revealed just how much of our genomes they occupy
Who is Barbara McClintock?
400
ZYGARDE
Pokemon
400
You perform an experiment on Tuesday, dislike the result, repeat it Wednesday, dislike that one too, and publish Friday's beautiful result. This introduces this type of bias?
What is selection bias?
400
Your treatment increases lifespan from 80.00 days to 80.03 days with p < 0.000001. Statistical significance does not necessarily imply this other kind of significance
What is biological significance?
600
The United Nations - an awe inspiring international body - is headquartered in this well known cosmopolitan city
What is New York?
600
This scientist helped discover the bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 system's ability to cut DNA at targeted sites, sharing the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna
Who is Emmanuelle Charpentier?
600
DRAMPA
Pokemon
600
You discover halfway through an experiment which samples belong to which treatment group, and suddenly the ambiguous measurements start looking strangely favorable. You should have used this procedure
What is blinding?
600
p = 0.73. Your hypothesis may live to fight another day, but statistically you have failed to do this to the null hypothesis.
What is reject it?
800
In the 2025 Best Picture winner Anora, the title character impulsively marries the son of a wealthy family from this country
What is Russia?
800
Tu Youyou discovered that the antimalarial compound _______ could be extracted from Artemisia annua, drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese medical texts. She received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
What is artemisinin?
800
PATRONIN
Gene
800
All controls receive DMSO injections, while all experimental animals a drug injection. Your drug is no longer the only difference between groups because you forgot this matching control
What is an unijected control?
800
Your experiment has n=3 and enormous variability. Before concluding that no effect exists, you should consider whether the experiment lacked enough of this statistical quantity to detect one
What is power?
1000
This is a annual european singing contest that has delivered us hit singers like ABBA, Celine Dion, and Zara Larsson
What is Eurovision?
1000
She showed that mitochondria contain their own DNA and developed the field of cytoplasmic genetics, demonstrating that inheritance isn't exclusively the nucleus's business. She later became the first woman appointed full professor at MIT's biology department
Who is Ruth Sager?
1000
SPOPL
Gene
1000
You changed the drug, temperature, media and incubation time simultaneously. Congratulations: you can no longer determine which of these caused the phenotype
What is a confounding variable?
1000
Your confidence interval for a fold change spans 0.6 to 2.4. Rather than proving "no effect," the enormous interval mainly tells you this about your estimate
What is 'it is uncertain'?