Physics and Engineering
The type of resulting electrostatic or magnetic force between two electrons.
What is repulsive force?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
The state of matter of asphalt.
What is a liquid?
The number of moons that Jupiter has.
What is 79?
The length of the longest bridge in the world.
What is 102.4 miles/165 kilometers?
The main force acting on the cables in a cable stay bridge.
What is tensile force?
The rate that a group experiences an outcome or illness.
What is the attack rate?
The name for compounds that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What are organic compounds?
Winds that blow in the same direction over a large region of the Earth.
What are prevailing winds?
Which type of simple machine tapers to a thin edge, and creates a force in a sideways direction when pushed?
What is a wedge?
The discovery for which Albert Einstein won his first Nobel prize.
What is the photoelectric effect?
The scientist who conducted a study on a cholera outbreak in the Golden Square of London in 1854.
What is John Snow?
The chemist who, in 1718, published the first Affinity Table.
What is E. F. Geoffroy?
The first recorded Greek to believe the Earth was round.
What is Pythagoras?
The man to receive the first U.S. patent in 1790, for an improved method to make pot ash and pearl ash.
What is Samuel Hopkins?
The metal through which sound travels fastest.
What is steel?
The closest non-whale mammalian relative to the whale.
What is the hippopotamus?
Chemical that causes fire to burn golden-yellow when added to it.
What is sodium?
The second-shortest unit of geologic time.
What is an epoch?
The name for a computer program which processes statements in one programming language and converts them into machine language or "code" that a computer's processor uses.
What is a compiler?
What is "Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation?"
The law that states that a population will maintain the exact allele and genotype frequencies over each generation unless five specific influences are introduced into the population.
What is the Hardy-Weinberg Law?
The largest commonly-encountered molecule, made of one long polymer chain.
What is a bowling ball?
The name of the technique of moving a spaceship forward by hitting it with photons.
What is solar sailing?
The type of cipher that includes Affine, Atbash, and Caesar-shift.
What is a monoalphabetic substitution cipher?