Lowell Trivia
General Science Facts
Women in Science Facts
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100
What is the student population at Lowell?
2700 (+/- 50)
100
What is element number 55?
(No cheating!)
Cesium
100
What percentage of the STEM workforce do women make up
(This was in the presentation last week)
29%
100
Name three of our officers.
Anna, Justine, Maddie, Isabella
100
What letter does not appear in the periodic table?
j
200
When was Lowell founded?
1856
200
What common, edible household/office item was used to create a massive fire ball on "Mythbusters"?
Non-dairy coffee creamer
200
In what field did Ada Lovelace make the most contributions?
Computer Science
200
When was our first meeting?
9/20
200
What does LASER stand for?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
300
What is Lowell's address
1101 Eucalyptus Drive
300
What element was used in Fat Man?
Plutonium
300
Where is Marie Curie buried?
The pantheon in Paris
300
What is our logo?
Photo 51: the crucial x-ray crystallography photo taken by Rosalind Franklin.
300
How old is Bill Nye?
62
400
Who is our student body president?
Almarie Mata
400
From what substance did Henning Brand first extract the element phosphorus in 1669 while looking for gold?
urine
400
Which class at Lowell last year had the smallest percentage of girls? What was the proportion?
AP Physics C. There were 17 girls out of 72 students.
400
Who is our first speaker, and what is her occupation?
Jennifer Frazier, research scientist at the Exploratorium
400
What is the speed of light? (m/s)
3*10^8 m/s
500
Who was Lowell named after, and what was his occupation?
James Russel Lowell, poet
500
What organism inspired the move "Alien".
(Extra 100 points for getting the name of the organism or anything about its behavior)
plankton, called phronima. 
500
Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes? In what subjects?
Marie Curie, Physics and Chemistry
500
What does the picture on our flyer show?
Data from CERN after the detection of the higgs boson
500
How many flavors of quarks are there? Name them
6: up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm