Historical Science
What disease was the first vaccine created for?
What is Small Pox?
"Not all who wander are lost"
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
This enzyme class transfers phosphate groups from ATP to specific substrates.
What is a kinase?
This song starts with an existential question that hits every scientist after a failed experiment:
“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
Machu Picchu, the ancient Incan city, is located in this country.
Where is Peru?
This Author waited 20 years to publish "On the Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin?
"We were on a Break!"
Who is Ross Geller?
This amino acid, known for its rigid ring, often breaks α-helices.
What is proline?
This song starts with a line that describes your mitochondrial prep after three rounds of centrifugation:
“You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.”
What is Great Balls of Fire?
The Galapagos Islands, famous for their unique wildlife, belong to this country.
Where is Ecuador?
This Scientist Discovered that light is made of a spectrum of colours, demonstrated using a prism.
Who is Isaac Newton?
"Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy"
Who is Albus Dumbledore?
This tag, derived from jellyfish, revolutionized live-cell imaging.
What is GFP?
This song’s opening line matches what scientists think when they discover the one tube they need is missing:
“Where did you come from, where did you go?”
What is Cotton Eyed joe?
Known as the City of Lights.
Where is Paris?
This scientist used crystallography to produce Photo 51.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
This polysaccharide is the major structural component of fungal cell walls.
What is Chitin?
This song opens with a question graduate students whisper to their cells when they refuse to grow:
“Do you ever feel… like a plastic bag?”
What is Firework?
This Country has more lakes than any other in the world.
This scientist won two Nobel Prizes in two separate fields of science.
Who is Marie Curie?
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Who is Isaac Newton?
This type of enzyme inhibition decreases the maximum reaction velocity but does not change the Michaelis constant, because the inhibitor binds equally well to the enzyme and the enzyme–substrate complex.
What is noncompetitive inhibition?
This song opens with a line every grad student mutters when they realize their control lane is blank:
“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…”
What is Yesterday?
This castle, one of Ireland's most famous, is located in County Cork.