Biology
Chemistry
The Periodic Table
Women in Science
Riddles
100

What are the structures within a living cell called?

What are organelles?

100

What is the state transition going from gas to liquid?

What is condensation?

100

What element is light enough to escape earth's gravitational pull?

What is Helium?

100

Who are Women in Biochemistry @ ASU's Faculty Advisors?

Who are Marcia Levitus and Anne Jones

100

What goes up but never comes down?

What is age?

200

What molecule carries energy within the cells?

What is ATP?
200

Where are metals found on the periodic table?

What is the middle?

200

What metal is the only metal liquid at room temperature?

What is Mercury?

(MP -39.9ºC)

200

Who discovered radioactivity alongside her husband Pierre and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Who is Marie Curie?

200

What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?

What is soap?

300

Which nucleic acid pairs with cytosine?

What is guanine?

300

What kind of reaction is this? 

CH4 + 2 O2 --> CO2 + 2 H2O

What is a combustion reaction

300

What are the 4 most abundant elements in the human body?

What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen?

300

Which British scientist’s work on X-ray crystallography was crucial to solving the structure of DNA, though her contributions were overlooked during her lifetime?

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

300

What has holes but still holds water?

What is a sponge?

400

What are the 4 main types of biomolecules?

What are carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, nucleic acids?

400

What letter represents the magnetic quantum number?

What is m(l)?

400

How many known elements are on the periodic table?

What is 118?
400

Who was born in 1821, was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States (Geneva Medical College in upstate New York), became an activist for poor women’s health, and went on to found a medical school for women in England?

Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?

400

I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

What is a clock?

500

What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?

What are phosphate, a nitrogenous base, and a sugar?

500

Which periodic trend increases from right to left?

What is atomic radius

500

Who drew the first periodic table?

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev

500

Who was a Marine biologist and conservationist whose various publications including Silent Spring inspired the environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and helped advance the global environmental movement?

Who is Rachel Louise Carson?


500

It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can't go inside. What is it?

What is a keyboard?

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