DynaMIT General
Biology/Chemistry
Math/Physics
CS/Earth and Space
dynaMIT Board Fun Facts
100

dynaMIT costs its students this much each week

What is 0?

100

DNA -> RNA -> protein

What is the Central Dogma?

100

The inventor of calculus.

Who is Leibniz or Newton?

100

Father of computer science and main character of The Imitation Game.

Who is Alan Turing

100

Which board member rows on the men’s crew team?

Charles

200

dynaMIT’s mentors all come from this university

What is MIT?

200

First known case of a disease in an epidemic or outbreak (swine flu, COVID-19, ebola, zika virus)

What is Patient Zero?

200

Mikaela has a pen full of pigs and chickens. There are 20 animals and 50 feet total. Mikaela has this many chickens.

What are 15 chickens?

200

This decimal number is represented in binary as 110101.

What is 53

200

Which board member plays the bassoon?

Himani

300

dynaMIT students are typically from this city and its surrounding area

What is Boston?

300

The genetic code of our bodies that takes the shape of a double helix

What is DNA?

300

The gravitational force between two objects depends on these two things.

What are mass and distance?

300

This programming language, named after a type of coffee, is widely used for Android apps.

Java

300

Which board member once went a month without eating sugar?

Andrew

400

dynaMIT accepts students from this many grade levels

What is 4?

400

The part of the microscope that allows you to move your sample around

What are stage controls?

400

June slices a circular pie 4 times. She can create at most this many pieces of pie.

What are 11 pieces?

400

This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which absorbs most of the Sun’s harmful UV rays.

What is the stratosphere

400

Which board member does Taekwondo?

Angie

500

dynaMIT has this many board members

What is 23?

500

This disease’s symptoms include breakdown of neurons in the brain and results in hampered movement and cognitive abilities as well as psychiatric disorders

What is Huntington’s Disease?

500

A water hose is at ground level against the base of a large wall. By aiming the hose at some angle, and squirting water at a speed v, one wets a region on the wall. If the speed of the water is doubled, the height and width of the wetted region changes by these factors.

What is height and width both quadruple?

500

The smallest planet in our solar system

What is Mercury

500

Which board member has never read Harry Potter?

Kevin