All About Rebecca
What is the FULL NAME of Rebecca's college friend?
Neha Patel <3
What state is Taylor Swift from?
Pennsylvania
She was a British chemist famous for using X-ray crystallography to elucidate the structure of DNA.
Hint: Watson and Crick (m*n) used this woman's work on the double helix structure of DNA and eventually won the Nobel Prize, they never credited her.
Rosalind Franklin
What is the boiling point of water (including units)?
100 degrees Celcius
212 degrees Farenheit
From what tree do acorns come from?
Oak Trees
What is Rebecca's favorite book genre?
Fiction
Who in our family has the same star sign as Taylor Swift?
Jessica!
(They are both Sagittarius! Jessica's birthday is 12/10, and Taylor's birthday is 12/13.)
She is the founder of scientific computing and the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
Diabetes develops as the result of a problem with which specific organ in the body?
Pancreas
In what country can you find the Suez Canal?
Egypt
What driving skill are Neha and Rebecca worst at?
A. Reversing
B. Driving on Highway
C. Merging
D. Regular Parking
C. Merging
What is Taylor Swift's lucky number?
13
She is credited as the catalyst for the modern environmental movement and wrote the groundbreaking book Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson
True or false: sound travels faster in air than in water.
False
Dolly was the first ever living creature to be cloned. What type of animal was she?
Sheep
What is Rebecca's Major?
A. Biology with Specialization in Neurobiology
B. Biology with Specialization in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics
C. Public Health
D. Biology with Specialization in Ecology and Conservation Biology
B. Biology with Specialization in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics
How old was Taylor Swift when dating John Mayer (who was 32 at the time)?
19
She was a space scientist and mathematician who played a huge role in calculating key trajectories during the Space Race. Her calculations were used to launch the first American astronaut into space (Alan Shepard).
Hint: The 2017 movie Hidden Figures is about this woman's time at NASA.
Katherine Johnson
What is it called when you make light change direction by passing it through a lens?
Refraction
This type of material does not allow electricity to flow through them easily, unlike conductors which are used for their ability to rapidly allow electricity to pass through. What is this material called?
Insulators
How does Rebecca think she is going to die (if not because of natural causes or accidents)?
Esophageal Cancer OR Heart Disease
Taylor Swift has released 9 studio albums. Name 6 of the 9.
Taylor Swift
Fearless
Speak Now
Red
1989
Reputation
Lover
Folklore
Evermore
She was the first woman to get her MD in the United States.
Elizabeth Blackwell
The name of this disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’. What disease is it?
Malaria
This Greek physician was the first to keep records of his patients’ histories.
Hippocrates