This anatomical structure is responsible for the various colors of eyes in humans.
What is the iris?
100
The US military intervention in Iraq.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
100
This person postulated the theory that magnetic fields are produced both by changing electric fields and by electric currents.
Who is James Maxwell?
100
The number of electrons that would fill the 4d energy subshell.
What is 10?
100
The two legendary Pokemon which were featured in Pokemon: The First Movie.
What are Mewtwo and Mew?
200
The most common term for the method Louis Pasteur used to create the first rabies vaccine.
What is attenuation?
200
The total number of MIT acceptances TAMS has had this year.
What is 6?
200
This person proposed the "plum pudding" model of the atom in 1897.
Who is J.J Thompson?
200
The atomic sublevel with the next highest energy after the 4p sublevel.
What is 5s?
200
The most recently released League of Legends Champion.
Who is Fiora?
300
This section of the brain is sometimes referred to as the body’s
thermostat.
What is the hypothalamus?
300
This well-advertised game comes out May 15th.
What is Diablo 3?
300
This ancient philosopher is credited with describing the geocentric theory of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
300
The pH of a 1 molar NaOH solution at 25ºC.
What is 14?
300
The number of MIT students to screw in a lightbulb. (Why?)
What is 5? (Because one designs a nuclear-powered one that never needs changing, one figures out how to power the rest of Boston using that nuked lightbulb, two install it, and one writes the computer program that controls the wall switch)
400
The feeding structure in arachnids.
What is chelicerae?
400
These two men were awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking experiments regarding graphene.
Who are Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov?
400
The Space Shuttle program began in this year.
When is 1981?
400
The complete electronic configuration for sulfur, located in Period 3 and Group 16 of the Periodic Table.
What is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p4?
400
The illustrator for the Harry Potter Series.
Who is Mary GrandPre?
500
The common name for the product of human lachrymal glands.
What are tears?
500
The current prime minister of Australia.
Who is Jullia Gillard?
500
This pioneer bacteriologist in 1873 located a particular
bacterium that caused anthrax in the spleen of infected cattle and, after transferring it serially to mice, recovered the same bacterium in the end.
Who is Robert Koch?
500
The full names of the alkaline earth metals from the lowest to the highest atomic number.
What is "beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium"?