Weird STEM Careers
Try Not To Break It
TV/Movie
Try Not To Drink It
Misc.
100
Workers in this career aren't afraid to chase storms
What are Storm Chasers?
(Weathercaster)
100
This machine separates denser substances from less dense ones by spinning them around in a container.
What is a Centrifuge?
100
This high school chemistry teacher just wanted to provide for his family.
Who is Walter White?
100
This liquid is versatile solvent for dissolving organic compounds, cleaning glassware and equipment. It can damage the liver and kidneys if ingested.
What is Acetone?
100
This man was purportedly a holy healer, who could preach the Bible like a preacher, and survived a poisoning attempt.
Who is Ra-Ra-Rasputin?
200
This career involves professionals extracting venom from snakes.
What is a Snake Milker?
(Venom Extractor)
200
A shallow covered dish used to grow microorganisms for research, named after its inventor.
What is a Petri Dish?
200
This doctor was a world-renowned neurosurgeon whose hands and ego were destroyed in a car accident.
Who is Dr. Strange?
200
A liquid medium used for the cultivation of bacterial or microbial growth.
What is Nutrient Broth?
200
There have been numerous sightings of this cryptid throughout Loveland, Ohio.
What is the Loveland Frog?
300
This career involves the use of mechanical, structural, civil, and electrical engineering, along with physics, to create an entertaining railroad ride for people.
What is a Rollercoaster Engineer?
300
This instrument creates an airtight environment for sterilization by exposing objects to high-pressure steam.
What is an Autoclave?
300
This character applies forensic serology and pattern analysis to help the police catch criminals, — usually.
Who is Dexter Morgan?
300
Organic compounds formed from carboxylic acids and alcohols that often have pleasant smells.
What are Esters?
300
This phrase/abbreviation refers to a global computing concern about the inability of many systems to interpret the last year of the second millennium.
What is Y2K?
400
A professional (with no malicious intent) who aims to identify any vulnerabilities or security issues in computer systems.
What is an Ethical Hacker?
(White Hat Hacker)
400
Tool used in physics experiments to measure the potential difference between two points in a circuit. It is a small, pen-like device with a sharp metal point at one end and a terminal at the other.
What is a Pencil Jockey?
(contact probe/voltmeter probe)
400
This high school science teacher with a Ph.D. in Physics, created a time-traveling device using a car.
Who is Dr. Emmett Brown?
400
This fluorescent dye used to stain lipids in biological samples glows under UV light. It's also the name of a popular chemistry YouTube channel.
What is Nile Red?
400
On the planet K2-18b, a team of astronomers detected this molecule(s) in the atmosphere, possibly indicating marine phytoplankton or bacteria.
What is DMS?
What is DMDS?
500
These engineers create flying low-explosive devices for entertainment, special effects, and sometimes military applications using chemistry and physics.
What is a Pyrotechnic Engineer?
(Pyrotechnicians)
500
This plutonium core, involved in two criticality accidents in 1945 and 1946, earned its ominous nickname after contributing to the deaths of two scientists at the Los Alamos Laboratory.
What is the Demon Core?
500
This Caltech physicist has an IQ of 187, and his work mainly focuses on string theory.
Bazinga
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
500
Before penicillin, salvarsan, a compound of this poisonous element, was used to treat syphilis
What is Mercury?
500
This ship cat, who served during World War II, survived the sinking of three ships.
Who is Unsinkable Sam?
(Oscar)