Biology
Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Hometown Facts
Animals
Sports
100

What is the powerhouse of the cell?

What is the mitochondria?

100

What is the pH of pure water?

What is 7.

100

Name top employers in Richland (+50 for every company named that are in the top 10 and +50 if you correctly identify what company is the top employer).

1) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

2) Kadlec

3) Bechtel

4) Washington River Protection Solutions

5) Mission Support Alliance

6) Richland School District

7) Energy Northwest

8) Areva

9) Washington Closure Hanford

10) City of Richland

100

What is the bird that has blue feet called?

What are blue footed boobies?

100

Who has the most medals from the Olympic Games?

Who is Michael Phelps?

200

What does biology mean?

What is the study of life?

200

During chemistry reactions, what is the most important thing to keep track of when thinking about what is actually going on?

What are electrons?
200

During World War 2, the Army bought a lot of land about the size of half of this US State.

What is Rhode Island?

200

What is the fastest animal in the world?

What are cheetahs?

200

Where was the first olympics games held?

What is Athens?

300

How many chromosomes do humans have (either exact or whoever is closest)?

What is 46?

300

What is the most basic principle to chemical engineering?

What is either 'matter is neither created nor destroyed' or 'what goes in to a reactor must come out'.

300

About how many people live in Richland (within 20%).

What is 60,000?

300

True/False, a snail has six noses.

What is False. Snails actually have 4 noses.

300

When was the National Football League founded? For an extra 50 points, when was the first Super Bowl?

When is 1920? The first Super Bowl was in 1967.
400

Name the four amino acids present in DNA (+100 for each amino acid or 100 for all the general letters).

What are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine?

400

What metal is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature and pressure?

What is mercury?

400

What decade was Washington State University Tri-Cities founded in?

What is the 1980's?

400

How many teeth do snails have?

What is anywhere between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth.

400

How many events are there in high school swimming (with plus or minus 3)?

What is 12?

500

Name the stages of cellular respiration (200 for each stage you can name).

What are Glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, the Krebs cycle, and oxidation phosphorylation.

500

Out of the three basic units of elements, which weighs the most?

What is a neutron?

500

Who is now a NASA astronaut and is also from Richland?

Who is Kayla Barron?

500

Nearly 3% of the ice in antarctic glaciers is actually what?

What is penguin urine?

500

When the women's gymnastics team first win the gold medal in the olympics?

What is 1996.