Science
What is it called when plants convert sunlight into energy?
Photosynthesis
What does www stand for?
World wide web
What "a" term refers to the rate at which velocity changes over time?
Acceleration
This value is, by definition, the smallest prime number.
2
Barbie’s spacious garage is cluttered with circuit boards, servo controllers, and actuators from her job working the robotics arm of what applied science (that contributes a letter to STEM)
Engineering
What is the largest mammal on Earth?
Blue Whale
What is the name of the process in which AI learns what answers are correct?
Machine learning
What structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town?
Leaning Tower of Pisa
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon’s character plays a Harvard janitor who is also a natural genius in mathematics.
Good Will Hunting
Marie Curie won the Nobel prize for chemistry for her development of this theory
Radioactivity
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Pacific Ocean
One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?
1000
What physical measurement is technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied? Queen and David Bowie performed a song about being under it.
Pressure
During the math competition scene in the movie “Mean Girls,” the answer to the calculus problem “what is the limit as x approaches zero of [ln(1-x)-sinx]/(1-cos²x)” is this.
The limit does not exist
Rosalind Franklin used this method to uncover the structure of DNA
X-Ray Diffraction
What causes ocean tides?
The gravitational pull of the moon
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
A major potential in efforts to engineer environmental sustainability are attempts to breed bacteria that can eat what polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle?
Plastic
This famous English mathematician is often credited as the inventor of calculus also had a deep interest in alchemy, spending many years of his life conducting secret experiments in the hope of discovering the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.
Sir Isaac Newton
In the 2016 film Hidden Figures, three African-American women mathematicians—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson—contributed to the launch of this NASA space mission.
The Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission
What causes an aurora?
Charged particles from solar winds that slow down when they reach our atmosphere
What programming language is named after a type of Indonesian coffee?
Java
Engineer Sherman Poppen is often credited as the inventor of the “Snurfer” – which was later renamed into what popularly-used winter sports equipment?
Snowboard
In the famous Netflix show Stranger Things, the young characters frequently refer to this branch of mathematics as it relates to an alternate dimensions, which they call the upside down.
Quantum mechanics
She studied and taught complex geometries at Stanford University. She is the only woman in history to receive a Fields Medal (most prestigious award in Mathematics)
Maryam Mirzakhani