Chemistry
3 elements on the periodic table with a symbol that does not start with the same letter as its name.
What is...
Au / Ag / W / Pb / Hg / Sn / Fe / Na / Sb / K ?
The force that dissipates energy into heat and resists motion between 2 surfaces.
What is friction?
The most abundant gas in our atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Scientist who proposed the theory of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The mission that first landed humans on the moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
What is speeding up and lowering the activation energy of the reaction?
The particle of light.
What is a photon?
The name of a species that is critical to maintaining their ecosystem's structure.
What is a keystone species?
An organelle that produces proteins.
What is a ribosome?
They built the 1st successful airplane in 1903.
Who is the Wright Brothers?
What an atom is mostly made up of.
What is empty space?
Region of collapsing clouds of gas and dust where stars are born.
What is a nebula?
The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from harmful UV radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
What is the hippocampus?
Data type with only 2 possible values - true or false.
What is a boolean?
Type of bond that involves the transfer of electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
Newton's first law.
What is objects at rest remain at rest, and objects in motion remain in motion?
The biome known for having the greatest biodiversity.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The main function of red blood cells.
What is transporting oxygen?
The GPT in ChatGPT.
What is generative pre-trained transformer?
What is Radium?
or
What is Polonium?
The 'c' in E=mc^2. (Bonus points for knowing the actual value of c)
What is the speed of light?
Bonus: What is 3 x 108 m/s?
The environmental disaster in 1986 that spread radioactive material across Europe.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
The energy-carrying molecule in cells.
What is Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)?
The largest telescope in space.
What is the James Webb telescope?