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200

Phase of cardiac cycle when the ventricles contract and eject blood

What is ventricular systole?

200

Scale measuring the absolute temperature of a substance

What is Kelvin scale?

200

This UBC campus tradition involves climbing a 12-foot wall

What is Storm the Wall?

200

The year UBC welcomed the new CAPS Major

What is 2024?

200

The Christopher Nolan film that explores the creation of the first atomic bomb during World War II

What is Oppenheimer?

400

The anatomical plane that divides the body into equal left and right portions

What is midsagittal plane?

400

Gas that makes up largest part of Earth's atmosphere

What is nitrogen?

400

UBC's official student-run newspaper

What is The Ubyssey?

400

Before becoming its own student association, CAPSSA was previously part of a joint club with this other UBC student association

What is Pharmacology Student Association?

400

This person is considered the "King of Pop"

What is Michael Jackson?

600

Anatomical name of the only freely movable bone of the skull

What is the mandible?

600

Epigenetic modification that generally reduces transcription when added to promoter DNA

What is DNA methylation?

600

UBC's current president

What is Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon?

600

UBC CAPS professor that has multiple educational neuroanatomy videos on YouTube with millions of views

What is Claudia Krebs?

600

The 2010 FIFA World Cup Runner Ups

What is Netherlands?

800

Plasma protein that connects exposed collagen to GPIb on platelets.

What is Von Willebrand factor?

800

Law describing how light bends when passing between two media of different refractive indices

What is Snell's Law?

800

This latin phrase is UBC's official motto and translates to "It is yours"

What is Tuum est?

800

Before the program became known as CAPS, courses in the program were identified using this four-letter course-code prefix


What is PHYL?

800

Story where three witches deliver prophecies that help set a Scottish nobleman on a path toward becoming king

What is Macbeth?

1000

Condition when blood volume falls enough to reduce venous return and cardiac output

What is hypovolemic shock?

1000

Type of gene that affects multiple distinct traits in an organism

What is pleiotropic gene?

1000

UBC alumna that became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

What is Michael Smith?

1000

UBC CAPS professor that is one of the authors of the widely popular anatomy textbook, Gray’s Anatomy for Students

What is A. Wayne Vogl?

1000

Russian composer who wrote the ballet Romeo and Juliet, based on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

What is Sergei Prokofiev?