Science
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Waukee Trivia
100
What is the smallest unit of life?
The cell
100
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
100
What field of engineering would help design/plan bridges?
Civil or Construction Engineering
100
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
(Give the formula)
a2 + b2 = c2
100
What are the mascots for the two high schools in the district?
Northwest Wolves and Waukee Warriors
200
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
200
What does RAM stand for?
Random Access Memory
200
What type of engineering helps convert raw materials into useful products?
Chemical engineering
200
What is the measurement of angle 1?
115 degrees
200
What does the WILC stand for?
Waukee Innovation and Learning Center
300
What are the names of all the planets in our solar system?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
300
Where was the first digital computer made?
Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!)
Name: Atanasoff-Berry Computer
300
What field of engineering helps create medical devices?
Biomedical engineering
300
Solve 3x2 - 7x - 6 for x (hint: there will be 2 answers)
X = 3, -2/3
300
How many elementary schools are currently open in the district?
10
400
What cell organelle is responsible for the production of proteins?
Ribosomes
400
When was the first iPhone released? Day, Month, Year
Team closet to the date gets the points
June 29th, 2007
400
What type of engineering works with power producing machines?
Mechanical/electrical/aerospace engineering
400
Casey buys a bracelet. She pays for the bracelet and pays $0.72 in sales tax. The sales tax rate is 6%. What was the original cost of the bracelet before tax?
$12
400
What was the population of Waukee according to the US Census in 2020? (Closest team gets the points)
23,940
500
What is Newton's Third Law?
For every force, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Ex. the force of a book on a table is equal to the force of the table on the book (when both are at rest)
500
How many gigabytes are in a terabyte?
1,024 gigabytes (exact)
500
What field of engineering deals with supply chain management?
Industrial Engineering
500
A bag contains 12 red marbles, 5 yellow marbles, and 15 green marbles. How many additional red marbles must be added to the 32 marbles already in the bag so that the probability of randomly drawing a red marble is 3/5?
18 red marbles
500
What was the name of the coal mine that used to operate in Waukee?
Shuler Coal Mine