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What is the nearest planet to the sun?
Mercury?
What is the name for the physical components that a computer requires to function?
Hardware
What language is used to structure a webpage and its contents?
HTML
What is the sum of all interior angles of a triangle?
180 degrees
What famous band got its start in McMaster?
Arkells
What does ATP stand for?
Adenosine triphosphate?
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
What kind of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge in SF?
Suspension bridge
What is the only even prime number?
Two
A part of which famous scientist brain is located at a McMaster science lab?
Albert Einstein
What two organs make up the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
Brain and spinal cord
What is Grace Hopper famous for?
recorded the first ever computer bug and worked on the Harvard Mark I computer
The resistance of a wire depends on which 3 factors?
- Type of material
- temperature
- length of wire
What is the pattern in the Fibonacci sequence?
The next number is the sum of the previous two numbers
Where was McMaster originally founded?
What is the most common isotope of hydrogen?
Deuterium
How many nanometers are there in a meter?
1 billion
What does the engineering software CAD stand for?
Computer Aided Design
What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning
four
What year was McMaster founded?
1887
What did Rosalind Franklin discover?
The helical shape of DNA
What is Katie Bouman famous for?
Taking a picture of the black hole
What McMaster alumni received a Nobel Prize in physics in 2018?
Donna Strickland
What is the maximum number of moves required to solve a Rubik's cube
20
What is the first student run pub at McMaster?
Rathskeller