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100

This set of common physics equations are useful for describing the motion of an object that is traveling with a constant acceleration

What are the kinematic equations?

100

This Polish chemist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the elements radium and polonium

Who is Marie Curie?

100

This chemist devised the periodic table of the elements.

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

100

This is a species produced in one step and consumed in a subsequent step in a reaction.

What is an intermediate?

100

This word refers to the tiny piece at the end of your shoelaces.

What is an aglet?

200

The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, which is very important in daily life.

What is gravity?

200

The 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to this famous scientist for their discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

Who is Albert Einstein?

200

This chemist proposed the atomic theory, that all matter was composed of indivisible and indestructible atoms with distant masses and properties.

Who is John Dalton?

200

This is the electrode that is the site of oxidation in a galvanic cell

What is an anode?

200

It’s the only 3-word state capital.

What is Salt Lake City?

300

This word refers to the 5th derivative of position or the rate of change of snap with respect to time

What is crackle?

300

The 1953 Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared between two people. One Nobel laureate discovered coenzyme A while the other discovered this cellular respiration process that uses coenzyme A.

What is the Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle, TCA cycle)?

300

This chemist introduced bond-orbital hybridization and bond resonance to describe covalent bonding.

Who is Linus Pauling?

300

This is the statement that the entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches absolute zero

What is the Third Law of Thermodynamics?

300

This cape wearing superhero first appearing in Action Comics #1 where he can be seen on the cover lifting a green car.

Who is Superman?

400

When combined with the Lorentz force law, this set of partial differential equations form the foundation of all classical electromagnetism and optics.

What are Maxwell’s equations?

400

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery and development of this protein that is commonly used as a fluorescent marker of gene expression and for determination of protein localization and motility in living cells.

What is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)?

400

This chemist is known for developing the molecular orbital theory of molecular structure.

Who is Robert Mulliken?

400

This is a principle that states that no two electrons in the same atom can have identical values for all four of their quantum numbers.

What is the Pauli exclusion principle?

400

This song by The Buggles can be heard in the first ever music video to air on MTV.

What is “Video Killed the Radio Star”

500

This interaction occurs when two waves combine together with the same amplitude but in opposite directions, and is the basis for the formation of antibonding molecular orbitals.

What is destructive interference?

500

The 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of this particle containing a -1 e charge that was originally theorized by the 1933 Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac.

What is an antiproton?

500

This chemist discovered the structure of penicillin and insulin during World War II.

Who is Dorothy Hodgkin?

500

This is a theoretical framework used to describe the rate of electron transfer reaction. There are factors such as electronic coupling.

What is Marcus theory?

500

This game show expert is famous for holding the record for most consecutive games of jeopardy won with 74.

Who is Ken Jennings?

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