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100

Type of image formed by a plane mirror

What is a virtual image?

100

For a given object on a given surface, the greater coefficient of friction (out of static or kinetic)

What is static?

100

This person's cat was trapped in a box with a radioactive particle

Who is Schrödinger?

100

The powerhouse of the cell

What is the mitochondria?

100

Mrs. McHenney’s first name

What is Jennifer?

200

Type of lenses that (nearsighted) glasses are

What is a concave lens?

200

In a binary star system, the key point about which both stars center their orbital motion

What is the center of mass?

200

Law stating that the force required to stretch a spring scales increases linearly with the distance that it is stretched

What is Hooke’s Law?

200

Albert Einstein’s eye color

What is brown?

200

A song that resulted in a popular meme involving 2 consecutive one digit numbers

What is Skrilla - Doot Doot (6 7)?

300

Type of visible light with the shortest wavelength

What is violet?

300

In a system consisting of a star with a satellite with a speed greater than its escape velocity, the type of conic section defining the path taken by the satellite

What is a hyperbola?

300

Scientist who unified theories of electricity and magnetism with his 4 equations (full name, including middle)

Who is James Clerk Maxwell?

300

Fruit sharing ~60% of its DNA with humans

What is a banana?

300

Number of students in Stevenson's inaugural class (+- 20)

What is 467?

400

First discoverer of Snell's Law

Who is Ibn Sahl?

400

The name given to forces where the work done by the force is independent of the path taken by the object, and to which a potential energy can be assigned

What is a conservative force?

400

The experiment that determined the constancy of the speed of light

What is the Michelson-Morley Experiment?

400

Room that hosts Biology Olympiad meetings at Stevenson

Where is room 1804?

400

Bill Nye’s full legal name

What is William Sanford Nye?

500

Physical phenomenon by which bubbles appear rainbow-colored

What is thin film interference?

500

Planet B has 2x the density of Planet A but also has ½ the radius of planet A, if T is the time a ball would take to fall on planet A, what is the time it would take to fall on planet b if dropped from the same height on both planets? Assume the height is << than the radius of these planets.

What is T?

500

Person whose work on the galaxy rotation problem produced the first widely accepted evidence for the existence of dark matter

Who is Vera Rubin? P.S. a new observatory named after her was unveiled this summer! Search it up

500

2 main signal transduction pathways that GPCRs are involved in

What are cAMP and phosphatidylinositol?


500

Thing that monsters in Monster’s Inc. generate when they make children scream

What is electricity?