He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939. He was also famous for his invention of the cyclotron at age 29!
Who is Ernest Lawrence?
100
An elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force.
What is a photon?
100
This President launched the Educate to Innovate Initiative to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over a decade.
Who is Obama?
100
The human body contains enough of this element to produce graphite for about 9,000 pencils.
What is carbon?
200
The first ten digits of pi
What is 3.141592653?
200
She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only person to win it twice.
Who is Marie Curie?
200
The emission and propagation of waves transmitting energy through space or through some medium.
What is radiation?
200
Abbreviated SAC, this was established by Harry S. Truman as a direct response to the launches of the Soviet artificial satellites, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2.
What is the Science Advisory Committee?
200
This common component of air is blue as a liquid.
What is oxygen?
300
The first 144 digits of pi add up to this devilish number
What is 666?
300
He invented the first electric battery; the unit of electric potential is named after him
Who is Alessandro Volta?
300
The SI derived unit of electrical resistance.
What are Ohms?
300
This 31st president was an author, a mining engineer and had served as the United States Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. He was also in the first class at Stanford University in 1891, where he studied geology.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
The gas produced by a ripening apple.
What is ethylene gas?
400
What you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter.
What is pumpkin pi ?
400
He took part in the discovery of 10 of the elements on the periodic table; element 106 is named after him
Who is Glenn Seaborg?
400
And change in which there is no gain or loss of heat.
What is adiabatic?
400
The only two presidents who studied engineering in college.
Who are Hoover and Carter?
400
There's about 1/2 pound of this salty compound in the average adult human body.
What is NaCl?
500
This famous "genius" was born on Pi Day (3/14/1879)!
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
This ancient Greek scientist accurately calculated Earth's size 2500 years ago.
Who is Eratosthenes?
500
A solid material's ability to deform under tensile stress; this is often characterized by the material's ability to be stretched into a wire.
What is ductility?
500
Most famous for dying in office after contracting a bad cold, the ninth President of the United States was also a medical school dropout.