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200

The time it takes to drive 50 kilometres at 50 km/h, in seconds.

3600 seconds

200

The famous physicist who discovered electrons and received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the structure of the atom.

Niels Bohr

200

The extended version of www.

World Wide Web

200

BC generates 90% of its energy from this renewable energy source.

Hydroelectricity

200

The number of colours the WiCT masks come in

3 colours

400

Any number that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers is called ___________.

Rational

400

The minimum amount of money awarded to recipients of the SFU Undergraduate Entrance scholarship.

$10,000

400

Short for wireless fidelity.

Wi-Fi

400

This carbon capture company, located in Squamish BC, has the goal to capture a million tonnes of CO2 per year.

Carbon Engineering

400

Fill in the blanks:

We are Creatives

We are Innovators

We are Excellence 

We are ________


Team Phantom

600

The name of the famous mathematician who died a virgin.

Issac Newton

600

The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories: Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and _____.

Mathematics

600

Considered to be the first computer, this “universal computing machine” was constructed in 1936 and was responsible for cracking the Enigma code.

The Turing Machine

600

NASA’S most recent Mars space rover, named Perseverance, has already been launched and is set to land in February. This specific piece of space technology works off this clean power source.

Nuclear energy

600

This FAS club donated over 200 face shields and ear savers to Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Women in Engineering.

800

The SI units in which the universal gravitational constant, AKA Big G, is written in.

N*m2/ kg2  or  m3/ (kg* s2)

800

Having an achievement in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition will land you this prize in the United States.

The Pulitzer Prize

800

This programming language is the language of the Web. It makes websites more interactive, interesting to use, and user-friendly.

Javascript

800

MSE Professor Woo Soo Kim and 60 students worked from home, designing ____, using their personal 3D printers. 500 of these were given to Vancouver General Hospital staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical mask savers or medical mask ear-savers.

800

To the nearest kilometre, the shortest distance needed to travel from the SFU Burnaby campus to the SFU Surrey campus via road.

17km.

1000

A star’s core fuses lighter elements into heavier elements. Which element would stop that reaction in any star core.

Iron

1000

Martin Ester and Edward Park, MSE and CS profs, were selected as recipients of the 2020 BCIC Ignite Awards. A total of _ . _ million was awarded for their 4 projects.

1.2 million

1000

In just under 2 years, this communications company has overtaken the likes of Apple and Google and is currently sitting at 353.40 USD on the stock market.

Zoom

1000

 The name of the current tallest building in the world. Located in Dubai, this structure clocks in at 828m.

Burj Khalifa

1000

The year that the first BASc degrees awarded by Simon Fraser University.

1986

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