E&S I & II
Physics & Chemistry
Life Science
Inquiry and Build
Guess the Officer
100
What is a circular, swirling current of water or air that deviates from the main flow called?
An eddy
100
ALL TEAMS AT THE SAME TIME
What is the pH of a 1.0 x 10^(-7) M NaOH solution?
Ignore significant figures. Closest answer to 5 decimals gets it.
7.20899
100
How many DNA strands would be produced after 9 rounds of PCR?
2^9 x 2 = 1024
100
What is the penalty for making up data in Experimental Design?
Score is quartered.
100
This officer competes solo for their build event.
Rickey
200
How many legs does a bee have?
6
200
What law states that the sum of all electrical potential differences (voltages) around any closed loop in a circuit must equal zero? Include name of physicist.
Kirchhoff's Loop Rule
200
What type of symbiosis benefits one organism while neither helping nor harming the other?
Commensalism
200
What two chemicals are prohibited in batteries for Robot Tour?
Lithium and lead
200
Which officer lost their Doordash-ed Taco Bell?
Agranya
300
Name any 2 stages of potable water treatment.
Coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, conditioning, and distribution.
300
How many powders do you need to be able to identify in Forensics?
15
300
This phase of a bacterial growth curve is characterized by exponential cell division where the growth rate is at its maximum.
Log phase
300
What number is letter N decode to in the Hill Cipher?
13
300
Which officer's cousin gave them their medal at Columbia?
Aymaan
400
This term describes the measure of diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation received, heavily impacted by Earth's ice and cloud cover.
Albedo
400
What equation gives the rate constant in terms of the activation energy and temperature?
Arrhenius equation
400
In what decade was DNA discovered?
1860s
400
How much time do you have to prepare the device in the holding area in Bungee Drop?
3 minutes
400
This officer was named a food critic in their sophomore year of high school at a competition. Niche reference :)
Cynthia
500
Identify this mineral made up of calcium.
Alabaster
500
Rick Sullivan uses a pulley system with 6 supporting rope segments to lift a 900 N load. He pulls with a force of 180 N. What's the efficiency?
83.3%
500
What is the name of a specialized beneficial symbiotic relationship formed between specialized soil fungi and the roots of living plants.
Mycorrhizae
500
Fermi Throwback!
How many golf balls can fit inside a school?
Must be within acceptable range. Don't give answer with Fermi rules; just state the number of golf balls.
500,000 balls to 1,000,000 balls
500
This officer walked straight into a door at Columbia.
Anya