Women in STEM
Physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This silent, knife-wielding killer wears a white mask and stalks his victims in the Halloween movie series.
Who is Michael Myers?
This organelle is the powerhouse of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
Lightning can't strike the same place more than once.
Trick
Before pumpkins became the standard, these vegetables were used for jack-o-lanterns.
What are turnips and potatoes?
Known as the "mother of computer programming," she created the first algorithm intended for a machine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Saying his name three times will summon him.
Who is Beetlejuice?
The closest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Some bacteria can survive in outer space.
Truth (ex: Deinococcus radiodurans: This bacterium is highly resistant to radiation and can survive in space for years)
This is the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Picture in 1974.
What is The Exorcist?
She helped discover the double helix shape of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The main character from the movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This part of the computer, often called the "brain," performs most of the processing tasks.
What is the CPU (Central Processing Unit)?
Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis later in life.
Trick (the sound comes from gas bubbles popping in the joint fluid)
This serial killer inspired Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and The Silence of the Lambs.
Who is Ed Gein?
First African American woman to travel to space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Three witchy sisters return from the dead on Halloween night after a curious teenager lights the Black Flame Candle.
Who are Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson?
This imaging technique, commonly used in biomedical science, creates detailed images of tissues using magnetic fields and radio waves.
What is an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Truth (Venus rotates so slowly that one full spin takes 243 Earth days, longer than its 225-day orbit around the Sun)
This instrument is played by Wednesday Addams.
What is a cello?
An African American mathematician famous for her groundbreaking work in developing the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Who is Gladys West?
Where the Ghostbusters find their first ghost.
What is the New York Public Library?
In quantum mechanics, this principle says a particle can exist in multiple states at once — like being both “alive and dead” in Schrodinger’s famous cat thought experiment.
What is superposition?
An octopus has three hearts
Truth (two hearts that pump blood through the gills, and one heart that circulates blood to the rest of the body)
4,556 x 96
(No calculator)
What is 437,376?