RPI
Biology Knowledge
Department Trivia
Name That Living Thing
Before & After
100

The school logo's new customizable feature

What is the bar?

100

The key flow of genetic information, woof

What is the Central Dogma?

100

Our department is holding a celebration on Oct 10th for this historic milestone

What is our 100th Anniversary?

100

The classic Ben Larson model organism

Euplotes

100

Flaming festival in the desert that's a TV hangout with foosball and beer

What is Burning Man Cave?

200

The zipcode of RPI's address

What is 12180?

200

Six students who have already spoken at seminar this year

Who are Lucas, Matt, Misty, Sharleen, Jenna, & T?

200

The largest living tree by volume

What is the Giant Sequoia?

200

A body of water studied by RPI if the first elected US President swam there

Lake George Washington 

300

This popular carnival ride is named after an RPI alum

What is the Ferris Wheel?

300

~25% of described species on Earth belong to this order

Coleoptera or Beetles 

300
Our department's recent cohort has this number of students in it

What is 11?

300

The National Park loving microbe that helped us to replicate DNA in vitro

What is Thermus aquaticus?

300

Kinesin and myosins that are trying to gain muscle at the gym 

What is motor protein powder?

400

The founding date of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What is 1824?

400

Scientific name of a great ape whose common name is repeated twice

Gorilla gorilla 

400

The BIO/BCBP Course Number

What is 6510?

400

The famous hydrozoa that gave us the beloved GFP

What is Aequorea victoria or the Crystal Jelly

400

Marvin Bentley and Blanca Barquera if they were also Tulsi Gabbard and Avril Haines

What is the Graduate Program Director of National Intelligence? 

500

The first building designed and constructed for RPI

The Main Building

500

The go to drink to counteract methanol poisoning

Ethanol or more formally, Booze

500

Organisms that have the largest "reproductive organ" to "body size" ratio of any living animal

What are barnacles? 

500

Bacterial cell wall identification slide that you accidentally spilled your coffee on 

Gram Stain Remover

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