Black History
Hard Sciences
Arts & Sciences
Engineering
Miscellaneous
100

This individual, known for serving as the 44th president of the United States, is also a notable alumnus of Columbia University.

Who is Barack Obama?

100

What is the largest organ in the human body?



What is the skin?
100

This popular programming language, named after a type of coffee, is commonly taught in computer science classes.

What is Java?

100

What is the formula for Force?

What is F=ma

100

This city has the largest percentage of black people and has been associated with Latto's lyrics "Big mama, no kids"



What is "Atlanta"?

200

Who developed over 300 uses for peanuts?

Who is George Washington Carver?

200

What is the name of the most abundant element in the universe?



What is Hydrogen?

200

If this were a tree, it would be upside down; it’s also used to prioritize tasks or elements.



What is a heap?

200

This compression algorithm, developed by a clever MIT student in 1952, uses shorter bit sequences for strings with frequent characters



What is Huffman coding?



200

What is the mission statement of the National Society of Black Engineers?

What is "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community"?

300

Who was the first black woman to go to space?

Who is Dr. Mae C. Jemison?

300

This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted.



What is "The Law of Conservation of Energy" or the "First Law of Thermodynamics"?

300

What does "OS" computer abbreviation usually mean?



What is "Operating System"?

300

In which field of engineering would you work with things like glass, ceramics, metals, polymers, and nanocrystal, and even discover (or make) new substances?

What is Materials Engineering?

300

This period 6 element, shares its symbol with the Marvel fictional country whose king was portrayed by Chadwick Boseman



What is Tungsten (W)? (Wakanda)



400

Name any of the three African American mathematicians/scientists who worked at NASA and were portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” for their contributions in the early days of the U.S. space program

Who are Katherine Johnson Dorthy Vaughan, or Mary Jackson?

400

This discriminatory principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers.



What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?



400

What is the concept of the stack data structure based on?



What is Last In First Out?



400

d2q/dt2+2dq/dt+0.25q=0

Give the roots of the Characteristic equation for the following RLC circuit equation

What are:

-1 + j(3)^(1/2)

-1 - j(3)^(1/2)

400

A projectile is launched at an angle of 45° with an initial speed of 20 m/s. What is the maximum height reached by the projectile?



10.2 m



500

This Black scholar was the first Black person to receive a PhD from Harvard and wrote the book "Souls of Black Folk?"



Who is W.E.B. Dubois?

500

What is the formula for kinetic energy?



What is K = 1/2mv^2 ?


500

What is the computational method defined as "the use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data."

What is "Machine Learning"?

500

This fundamental equation describes the relationship between lift, drag, air density, and velocity in aerodynamics.



Bernoulli Equation or Lift Equation



500

This fundamental theorem connects differentiation and integration, stating that the integral of a function's derivative over an interval is equal to the function's value at the endpoints of the interval.

What is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?