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100
The process when light bends as it enters a different medium.
What is refraction.
100
French mathematician, physicist invented the first calculating machine in 1641.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
100
Name for white blood cells
What is Leukocytes?
100
The brain of any computer system.
What is CPU (Central Processing Unit)
100
The world's first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
200
Units to measure electric resistance.
What is Ohms.
200
Volume of a sphere.
What is 4/3pi(r^3)?
200
The largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
200
RAM that can be accessed faster than normal.
What is Cache memory?
200
Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Maire Curie?
300
Name of unit for nuclear sizes (HINT* unit of length equal to 10-15 meter, used in nuclear physics)
What is Fermi?
300
Next number in the Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34,
What is 55?
300
A group of ribosomes attached to a messenger RNA
What is a polysome?
300
Computer language used for artificial intelligence.
What is PROLOG? *Prolog is a general purpose logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.
300
She learned techniques for X-ray crystallography and made X-ray images of DNA. Her discoveries tremendously helped advance the understanding of a double helix.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
Sound of frequency below 20 Hz.
What is infrasonic?
400
d/dx [ ex ] at x = 1
What is e?
400
The structure of the hindbrain
What is pons?
400
A digital circuit that performs integer arithmetic and logical operations.
What is ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit)?
400
Discovered that uranium atoms were split when bombarded with neutrons, she calculated the energy released in the reaction and named the phenomenon “nuclear fission.” The discovery eventually led to the atomic bomb.
Who is Lise Meitner?
500
Light which Light Emitting Diodes (LED) emit in electronics.
What is visible light?
500
Represents a wave-like function as the sum of simple sine waves.
What is a Fourier Series?
500
Oxygen diffuses across these multi-lobed air sacs in the lungs.
What is the alveoli?
500
While using C++, the correct value to return to the operating system upon the successful completion of a program
What is 0?
500
Is a Post-doctoral researcher, has her BA in Marine Biology, MSc Marine Science, and PhD Marine Science while currently a phenomenal professor and club advisor!!
Who is Dr Michelle Paddack?
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