Basic Science Trivia
The longest living cells in humans come from this part of the body
Brain
Name the movie reference: "The limit does not exist"
Mean Girls
The sun is primarily made of this element
Hydrogen
This geometric theorem allows for the calculation of the square of a hypotenuse of a triangle, by combining the squares of the two other sides. It gets its name from an ancient Greek philosopher.
Pythagorean Theorem
Who is best known for her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior?
Jane Goodall
The number of bones in the adult human skeleton
206
This powerful film is based on the lives of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan, the trailblazing, female mathematicians who brought astronauts to the moon.
Hidden Figures
This planet has had the most NASA expeditions to it since U.S. space exploration began
Mars
This piece of technology and calculating tool used beans or stones moved in grooves of sand to perform calculations
Abacus
This female mathematician is often referred to as "the mother of computer programming"
Ada Lovelace
The only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury
Name the move reference: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Jurassic Park
Comets are made of rocks, dust, and this
Ice
Although the word is often used in popular culture to reference a specific film franchise, technically the definition of a certain math term is "a rectangular array or table of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns."
Matrix
The only woman in history to win two Nobel prizes
Marie Curie
The most electronegative element on the periodic table
Fluorine (F)
What is the name of the actress that holds a Chemistry degree from Harvard? Hint: Star Wars
Natalie Portman
It takes this long for the sun rays to reach the Earth
8 minutes
This mathematical function can be defined as multiplying a number with all integers less than or equal to that number
Factorial
This British chemist was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA, although she was not recognized for her contributions until recently
Rosalind Franklin
In genetics, the acronym SNP is commonly used, which stands for
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
This scientific principle was featured in "The Martian" (2015), as Mark Watney focuses on implementing it as he survives on Mars
Botany
These 2 planets in our solar system have no moons
Venus and Mercury
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and this other quantity
Time
This woman donated samples that gave rise to the first successful treatment for leprosy, and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for this contribution
Henrietta Lacks