Physics
Biology
Computer Science
Political Science
Miscellaneous
100
The first person (or persons) to discover calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton/Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
100
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
100
A finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.
What is an algorithm?
100
An in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context.
What is a case study?
100
The respiratory illness caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2.
What is COVID-19?
200
The acceleration of an object is dependent upon two variables - the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object.
What is Newton's second law?
200
A combining form meaning “life” occurring in loanwords from Greek
What is "bio"?
200
All the information about any computable problem can be represented using only _
0 and 1
200
An institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.
What is public policy
200
The amount of time it takes light to travel from the sun to the Earth.
8 minutes
300
The winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
The process by which biological fuels are oxidised in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate, from which energy can be extracted.
What is cellular respiration?
300
Guido van Rossum began working on this programming language in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991.
What is Python?
300
The theory postulating that an individual will perform a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether an option is right for them.
What is rational choice theory?
300
The 18th element (a noble gas)
What is Argon?
400
A linear partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system.
What is the Schrodinger equation?
400
Small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Hint: Short for Aphidoidea.
What are aphids?
400
The first ever computer programmer
Who was Ada Lovelace?
400
The "quantitative analysis of elections and balloting"
What is Psephology/political analysis?
400
What is f'(a)?
500
A physical phenomenon predicted by quantum electrodynamics whereby matter is created by a strong electric field.
What is the Schwinger effect?
500
In taxonomy, a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and most of its descendants, but excludes a few monophyletic subgroups.
What is a paraphyletic group?
500
A measure of the algorithmic insolvability of a set of natural numbers
What is the Turing degree?
500
A theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players; the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting.
What is game theory?
500
An isotopic signature, a measure of the ratio of the two stable isotopes of carbon—13C and 12C—reported in parts per thousand
What is δ13C (delta c 13?)