Antibiotics
What is the natural source of penicillin?
mold
A chemical or nuclear reaction producing energy or products that cause further reactions of the same kind.
chain reaction
What galaxy do we live in?
Milky Way
What does WWW mean?
The World Wide Web
What world-changing technology was launched in 1903 by the Wright Brothers?
airplane
What organisms can be killed by antibiotics?
bacteria
What city was the first nuclear reactor built?
Chicago
What is the name of a vehicle or aircraft that travels regularly between two places?
shuttle
Where do files live on the Internet?
on servers
What feat of engeneering was destroyed in 1912?
Titanic
When bacteria develop defenses against the antibiotics, it is called...
antibiotic resistance
Which nuclear power plant suffered a massive explosion rge resulting in the release of large amounts of radiation in 1986?
Chernobyl
Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
What do we call a popular image often spread via social media?
meme
What is the name of the first manmade object put into orbit?
Sputnik
What prize were Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey awarded for the discovery of penicillin in 1945?
What chemical element is used in nuclear reactors?
uranium
A measure of distance, the distance light travels in one year.
light year
What is the name of a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers?
Wikipedia
Which disease was eliminated in 1979?
smallpox
What is the name for a shallow transparent cylindrical containers that are designed specifically for microbiology or cell culture use?
Petri dish
Energy is stored in the ___ of an atom.
nucleus
What was the name of the first remote-controlled robot "rover" to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth?
Lunokhod 1
In January 2021, this children's song became the first YouTube video to surpass 10 billion views, after snatching the crown of most-viewed YouTube video of all time from the former record holder "Despacito" one year before. Currently it has 12.3 billion lifetime views on YouTube.
Baby Shark Dance
What wall fell in 1989, triggering the downfall of communism philosophy?
the Berlin Wall