Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
Trivia/riddle
100

true or false? the mentos and coke experiment geyser is a chemical reaction, because so many new bubbles are "made."

False

100

0 and 1 are the only digits a computer really uses. What is one of those  digits called?

A bit

100

which of the engineers writes the code for apps and games?

Software engineer

100

8 bits make 1 byte. So how many bits are in 2 bytes?

16 bits

100

What is the closest star to Earth?

the sun

200

Both the lava-lamp tablet and the Mentos make bubbles which ONE is a real chemical reaction? Which one and why?

The fizzing tablet  reacts with water to make a brand new gas.

200

Your game won't run, but the computer isn't broken, it did exactly what you told it. So you have one of these issues in the code.

A bug

200

Civil engineers trust this shape because it can't be pushed out of shape and it has the fewest sides of any flat shape.

Triangle

200

You flip a coin 3 times and get heads every time. What is the chance the NEXT flip is heads?

50%

200

How many months have 28 days?

All of them

300

Mentos feels perfectly smooth, yet it's the secret to the giant geyser. Explain the contradiction.

Its surface is actually covered in thousands of tiny pits (nucleation sites) where gas bubbles form all at once.

300

The letter A is stored as 01000001. Exactly how many bits is that and how many bytes?

8 bits and 1 byte
300

You're a biomedical engineer and a patient's heart won't keep a steady beat. Name the small electronic device you'd design, and where it goes.

Pacemaker (chest)

300

simplify this fraction

12x/6x

2

300

A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 of them run away. How many sheep does the farmer have left?

9

(All but 9 means 9 stayed)

400

You want the tallest geyser. You have warm soda, cold soda, and opened soda. Which gives the biggest eruption, and which would barely fizz at all?

Warm, fresh soda erupts biggest. Flat/old soda barely fizzes

400

Python, JavaScript, and Scratch can all build a game. Which one lets you code without typing and which famous school invented it?

Scratch & MIT

400

An aerospace engineer's rocket must beat the force of gravity, which pulls down. What force from the engines must be even greater to lift off.

Thrust

400

solve for X

2(4x+1)=9

x=7/8

400

A man fell off a 50 foot building but wasn't hurt? why?

He fell off the bottom floor.

500

In the lava lamp, oil floats because it's less dense. So why does the food coloring sink through the oil instead of floating on it?

it's denser than oil so it sinks through and colors the water

500

In binary the place values are 8, 4, 2, 1. What regular number is "1 0 1 1"? (Add carefully!)

11 (8+0+2+1=11)

500

A suspension bridge crosses a river, but what holds its roadway up is not the water or the ground below. What holds it up?

Tall towers and steel cables

500

solve for X

x/3=4

12

500

Who discovered North America 

Native Americans

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