Advancing and Retreating
Church Lab (Website) Facts
Famous Georges
The Woods
Party Time
100

One of the most important advances in 20th century science was the invention of this device in 1947 at Bell Labs.

What is the transistor?

100

This is the number of people in the lab right now (not including undergrads, including staff/admin).

What is 81?

100

This handsome actor has been in movies like "O Brother, Where Art Thou", "Ocean's Eleven", and "Gravity".

Who is George Clooney?

100

In a modern version of this fairy tale, a girl might need to go through the woods and then test out her ability to spot a phishing scam.

What is Little Red Riding Hood?

100

The manufacturer of this ubiquitous party item was founded in 1936. The company founder's son invented this item to be cheap, disposable, to withstand drops, and to be stackable.

What is a (red) Solo cup?

200

The Game Boy Advance was a popular portable video game console made by this company that used to sell playing cards.

What is Nintendo?

200

This is the number of publications listed on the Church Lab website right now (to the nearest 10).

What is 710?

200

This president once dodged a couple of shoes pretty well.

Who is George W. Bush?

200

Robin Hood and his merry band of thieves lived in this ancient royal wooded area.

What is Sherwood Forest?

200

The first recipe for this delicious outdoor treat appeared in a cookbook in the early 1920s. The Wikipedia page says that the key ingredient is usually "gooey but not burnt".

What are S'mores?

300

This famous general and emperor was forced into a catastrophic retreat after his invasion of Russia.

Who is Napoleon?

300

This is the original name of the NGS technique invented by Robi Mitra, Jay Shendure and others in the Church Lab.

What is FISSEQ  (fluorescent in-situ sequencing)?

300

He's a well-known funder of progressive and liberal political causes.

Who is George Soros?

300

Wood is largely composed of this type of plant tissue.

What is xylem?

300

This iconic party song features the East Side Boyz and has three different radio edits for profanity.

What is Get Low?

400

Meditative retreats are an important practice in this mystical branch of Islam that focuses on purification and asceticism.

What is Sufism?

400

This is the specific name of the molecule rotating for eternity on our website.

What is the yeast  phenylalanine t-RNA?

400

This athlete was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its inaugural five members and is arguably one of the most famous American athletes of all time.

Who is George "Babe" Ruth?

400

This is the official term for the study of woody plants.

What is dendrology?

400

An important part of a functioning sauna is this device that can be used to measure the level of humidity or steam.

What is a hygrometer?

500

This election season, one might see a lot of ADs for JD Vance, who comes from this pretty average place.

What is Middletown (Ohio)?

500

These are 3 of the 7 classes of projects going on in the lab right now, according to the website.

What are developmental bio, info processing, medical, genomics, ET space bio,  diagnostics, chemistry, and ecosystems?

500

She used George as her pseudonym, and wrote novels like Middlemarch and Silas Marner.

Who is George Eliot or Mary Ann Evans?

500

Tiger Woods is one of the greatest golfers ever. In 2009 to 2010, he was involved in a major scandal due to multiple instances of infidelity and divorced this person.

Who is Elin (Nordegren)?

500

The hot tub - a favorite of Church lab partiers everywhere - was first introduced to the US in the 1940s. Hydrotherapy pumps were later added by a company whose founders were seven brothers that immigrated to the US from this country.

What is Italy?