Physics/Engineering
Chemistry
Biology
Others/Miscellaneous
General
100
The first step of the engineering design process.
What is ask.
100
This compound is often considered as an oxidizer; it is used as a bleach, a disinfectant, and sometimes a rocket propellant.
What is hydrogen peroxide
100
This technique is used in DNA sequencing and involves loading DNA fragments on a piece of gel.
What is gel electrophoresis. (spelling counts)
100
The scientist who said “the laws of nature are written in the language of mathmatics”.
What is Galileo Galilei.
100
In terms of cryptography, this subject is even more reliable than math.
What is physics.
200
The step of the engineering design process that the SECOND death star is on in Star Wars VI.
What is create.
200
Something that gets consumed at the start of a chemical reaction but gets reproduced at the end of the reaction.
What is catalyst.
200
This nitrogenous base bonds with adenine in a DNA double helix structure.
What is thymine.
200
The word that a subatomic duck often says.
What is quark.
200
A hypothesis becomes this when it is accepted as the most credible one of all the hypotheses of a phenomenon.
What is theory.
300
The person who first introduced the principle stating that the standard deviation of an object’s position times that of its momentum is greater than the reduced planck constant over two.
What is Heisenberg.
300
This technique involves observing the difference in the rate of separation of the stationary phase and the fluid phase of a substance.
What is chromatography
300
When the vaccine for smallpox was first introduced, this kind of virus was used as the antigen.
What is cowpox.
300
This person proposed the theory stating that the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the energy and momentum of whatever matter and radiation are present.
What is Albert Einstein.
300
This is a location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field of a celestial body become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.
What is singularity.
400
Apart from experiencing gravity, an egg dropped from the top of a building also experiences a force properly known as this.
What is drag.
400
When hydrogen peroxide decomposes into water and oxygen, the enthalpy of the reaction is negative. This conforms with this law of physics.
What is Second Law of Thermodynamics
400
The extraction of DNA is the first step of this process. This process is used in the Human Genome project.
What is DNA sequencing.
400
Before the theory stating that the sun is the center of the solar system was accepted, this model was widely accepted and used.
What is geocentric model.
400
The author who wrote the book The Silent Spring.
What is Rachel Carson
500
Here’re some binary codes for some of the letters in the alphabet: E-01000101 L-01001000 O-01001111 R-01010010 U-01010101 V-01010110 You intercepted the following encrypted message while working for the “Ultra” program: LOL as you know the key is 00011101 00011001 00011010, figure out the original message.
What is UVR
500
Name the type of compound formed when DNA combines with positive ions in Gatorade to precipitate out into isopropyl alcohol.
What is salt
500
This component, in a vaccine, stimulates the immune system to respond to an antigen.
What is adjuvant.
500
The number of moons of Saturn with formal designations (i.e. names).
What is 62.
500
The theory stating that climate change is "made up" for the benefits of individual groups is widely known as this type of theory.
What is conspiracy theory.
M
e
n
u