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100

Throughout the 1920s, multiple girls' bodies were reported to be "glowing in their coffins" due to their continued exposure to this element.

What is radium?

100

What word describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart?

What are strings?

100

The reason you get yeeted out of a car if you aren't wearing your seatbelt during a crash

What is inertia

100

The Milky Way's nearest Neighbour, a barred spiral galaxy. 

What is Andromeda? 

100

This man was a genius voice of his generation, and even in his last marriage, it was all about relativity

Who is Albert Einstein?

200

Boiling water, using an oven, and fevers are examples of this kind of energy. 

What is thermal energy?

200

This is the name for the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of an object due to a black hole.

What is spaghettification? 

200

This law states that an object in motion/at rest stays in motion/at rest, unless acted upon by an external force. 

What is Newton's First Law/the Law of Inertia? 

200

This force keeps you in your seat when upside down on a roller coaster. 

What is centripital force?

200

He painted the Mona Lisa. 

Who is Leonardo DaVinci?

300

This American filed a whopping 1093 patents before he died in 1931, and is credited for the invention of the first talking dolls, among other things.

Who is Thomas Edison? 

300

This planet is one of two that neighbour the asteroid belt, has the shortest day of the planets in our solar system, and is named for the Roman King of the Gods.

What is Jupiter?

300

This type of wave is created by small vibrations in objects, and transmits at different speeds through different mediums. 

What are Sound Waves?

300

These harmonic movements are responsible for the shaking you feel during an Earthquake

What are energy waves

300

Eratosthenes figured this out with two sticks, a measuring tool, and the sun

What is the circumference of the Earth

400

As the "warden of the royal mint", this famous physicists brought about the prosecution of multiple counterfeiters, leading them to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

Who is Issac Newton? 

400

The strongest force in the known universe: it's 6 thousand trillion trillion trillion (that's 39 zeroes after 6!) times stronger than the force of gravity.

What is the Strong Nuclear force? 

400

The outermost layer of the sun, which is only visible during total solar eclipses, when the moon blocks the sun's bright disk, revealing a pearly white halo. 

What is the Corona?

400

The Large Hadron Collider is located in these two countries. 

What are France and Switzerland? 

400

It's ok to say his name, especially when thinking about the uncertainty principle

Who is Heisenberg?

500

This type of radiation was the reason for Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk. In real life, they interact with matter through ionization, which can cause the disruption of atoms and molecules. 

What are Gamma Rays?

500

The full acronym for LASER.

What is "Light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation"?

500

Any one of the parts of the light spectrum that are not visible to the human naked eye. 

What is (infared, uv, x-ray, gamma, microwave, radio)?

500

These three particle make up atoms.

What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?

500

He went through hell trying to support (among other things), heliocentricity, but we don't know if he really did the demo at the Leaning Tower.

Who is Galileo?

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