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an element that begins with the letter B

What is Boron, Beryllium, Barium, etc.

100

the product of a substance's mass over volume

What is density?

100

In 1664, the explanation to why things fall down and why planets orbit around the Sun

What is gravity?

100

an Italian astronomer who has been referred to as the "father of modern physics"

Who is Galileo Galilei?

100

A popular show host, often seen in early science classes, who's theme song is still quoted today

Who is Bill Nye the Science Guy?

200

a chemical compound containing carbon triple bonded to nitrogen; a popular poison in murder mysteries

What is cyanide?

200

a compound that produces OH- ions or electrons in water, as well as one that accepts protons

What is a base?

200

in 1859, a British naturalist came up with this to explain how life on Earth developed

What is the Theory of Evolution?

200

a Polish and naturalized French physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium

Who is Marie Curie?

200

The film, released in 2016, that told the story of three African-American women who helped launch an astronaut into orbit

What is Hidden Figures?

300

the characteristic smell after a lightning strike is the result of the production of this

What is ozone?

300

a complete transfer of valence electrons

What is an ionic bond?

300

chemist who's experiment led to doctors washing their hands and sterilizing their equipment

Who is Louis Pasteur?

300

came up with a model of the universe that was heliocentric rather than geocentrism

Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

300
A 2014 Christopher Nolan film that follows NASA researchers searching for a hospitable planet

What is Interstellar?

400

classified as neither a liquid nor a solid due to flow at an almost imperceptible rate

What is glass?

400

a linear organic polymer consisting of a large amount of amino-acid residues, forming a chain and part or a complete protein molecule

What is a polypeptide?

400

instance that resulted in creating the first generator, and considered the beginning of the huge generators that produce our electricity

What is Faraday's experiment?

400

the first person to visualize a microorganism

Who is Robert Hooke?

400

The full name of the character who, in the movie The Martian, becomes stranded on Mars after a terrible storm

Who is Mark Watney?

500

reaching this causes liquid helium to become a "superfluid" and move rapidly, defying gravity

What is the lambda point?

500
different forms of a phase of an element

What is an allotrope?

500

proposed by Georges Lematre in 1927?

What is the Big Bang theory?

500

regarded as the first computer programmer, and whose notes is considered to be the very first computer algorithm

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

fictional scientific components that reduce the distance between atoms while increasing density and strength

What are Pym Particles?

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