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Carrot-o-pedia
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Alpha-Beta
100
The Boston Marathon begins in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and ends in Copley Square at what landmark Boston building, designed by architect Charles McKim?
Boston Public Library
100
Two truths and a lie. Catch the lie.
A. Carrots are diploid
B. The edible part of the carrot is modified stem
C. Carrots have an umbel inflorescence
B. Edible part of carrot is modified stem
100
The first commercial general purpose computer was created by Remington Rand and delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau on June 14, 1951. Name the computer.
(Not ENIAC, which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I)
100
In plant tissue culture, name two major hormones that are used to control plant growth and development.
Auxins and Cytokinins
100
In the Greek alphabet, beta (β) is the second letter. What is the second letter in the Latin alphabet?
B
200
Massachusetts designated this tree as the official state tree in 1941, commemorating the fact that General George Washington took command of the Continental Army beneath this tree on Cambridge Common in 1775.
American elm
200
The different colors of carrots are due to variations in the types and amounts of pigments they contain, primarily X and Y.
X- Carotenoids
Y- Anthocyanins
Carotenoids are responsible for yellow, orange, and red hues, while anthocyanins create purple and black colors.
200
Often called the 'Nobel Prize of Computing,' this annual award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for groundbreaking contributions to computer science. What is the name of this award?
ACM A. M. Turing Award
200
Somatic embryogenesis was first successfully achieved in vitro using phloem cells from which plant species?
Carrot
200
X was a Founding Father and served two terms as vice president under President George Washington. In 1797, he was elected as the second president of the United States.
Name X.
John Adams
300
This reservoir is the biggest, deepest lake in MA, and supplies most of the Greater Boston area’s water?
Quabbin Reservoir
300
The first plant tissue culture success was achieved in X (plant species) by P.R. White in Y (decade)?
X- Carrot
Y - 1930s
300
Which AI program defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?
IBM’s Deep Blue
300
X is the ability of a single cell to develop into a complete organism, including both embryonic and extraembryonic tissues.
Totipotency
300
2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Hassabis, Jumper and Baker for their AI research contributions for protein structure prediction.
Name the AI tool.
AlphaFold
400
Estimated to be well over 350 years old, this tree located in Sunderland, MA is also one of the largest of its kind on Eastern coast.
Guess the tree (Common name/scientific name).
Button Ball/ American Sycamore
Platanus occidentalis
400
What is the center of origin for the Carrot?
Central Asia (Afghanistan or greater Iran)
400
Which programming language’s name is derived from a popular TV show sketch comedy group?
Python (named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus)
400
Experiments by Charles Darwin and his son Francis in the 1880s on oat coleoptiles (young shoots) provided evidence for a growth-promoting substance. In 1926, the growth-promoting substance was later identified as the first plant hormone and named X.
Indole-Acetic Acid (Auxin)
400
The term 'beta' was first used in the 1950s by company X, where 'alpha' testing referred to evaluating product ideas and theories, while 'beta' testing involved features of more complete products. Decades later, company Y popularized the term further in the early 2000s by launching its product with a 'beta' tag and an invite-only sign-up model.
Can you name X and Y?
X - IBM
Y - Google
500
These two world famous sports were invented in MA, one in Springfield (in 1891) and other one in Holyoke (in 1895).
Name the sports.
Basketball - Springfield
Volleyball - Holyoke
500
Carrots are a rich source of this compound.
Name the compound.
Beta-Carotene/ Provitamin A
500
What does “CAPTCHA” stand for?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
500
The first successful induction of somatic embryogenesis from immature zygotic embryos was reported in this tree species in 1985.
Norway spruce (Picea abies)
500
This city was the second US city to open a subway system in 1904.
X - New York City
Boston was the first city to get a Subway.