The C-Suite (Business Strategy)
Silicon Valley & Beyond (Tech)
The Natural World (Science & Math)
Mix & Match (Business-STEM Crossover)
Disruptive Origins
100

This 3-letter acronym refers to the person responsible for a company's overall operations and performance.

What is a CEO?

100

This "language of the web" is used to style HTML elements and define the layout of a page.

What is CSS?

100

This is the most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere, making up about 78% of the air we breathe.

What is Nitrogen?

100

This "Big Data" term refers to the process of scouring through large data sets to identify patterns and establish relationships.

What is Data Mining?

100

Before it became the world's largest video streaming site, this platform was originally pitched as a video dating site called "Tune In, Hook Up."

What is YouTube?

200

In a SWOT analysis, these two categories represent external factors that could help or hinder a business.

What are Opportunities and Threats?

200

This company, founded by Jensen Huang, saw its valuation skyrocket in 2023-24 due to the demand for AI chips.

What is NVIDIA?

200

In calculus, this operation finds the rate of change or the slope of a curve at a specific point.

What is a Derivative?

200

This type of intellectual property protection is usually granted for 20 years for new and useful inventions.

What is a Patent?

200

This 19th-century inventor's "War of Currents" against Nikola Tesla was as much a marketing battle as it was a scientific one.

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

This term describes a private startup company valued at over $1 billion.

What is a Unicorn?

300

This 4-letter acronym describes the method of distributing software where applications are hosted by a vendor and provided over the internet.

What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?

300

This fundamental constant, approximately 3×108 meters per second, is the universal speed limit.

What is the Speed of Light?

300

These are the three pillars of "ESG" investing, a framework used to assess a company's sustainability.

What are Environmental, Social, and Governance?

300

This 4-letter company name is actually an acronym for "International Business Machines."

What is IBM?

400

This strategy involves a company expanding its business operations into different steps on the same production path.

What is Vertical Integration?

400

This is the specific term for a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records transactions across many computers.

What is Blockchain?

400

This biological process allows plants to convert light energy into chemical energy.

What is Photosynthesis?

400

In the context of Moore's Law, the number of these on a microchip doubles approximately every two years.

What are Transistors?

400

In 1998, this search engine was nearly sold to Excite for $750,000; today, its parent company, Alphabet, is worth trillions.

What is Google?

500

In 2022, this business mogul officially acquired Twitter for $44 billion, later rebranding it to "X."

Who is Elon Musk?

500

Often called the "Nobel Prize of Computing," this award is named after a British mathematician and codebreaker.

What is the Turing Award?

500

This principle states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and momentum of a particle simultaneously.

What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

500

This 19th-century mathematician is considered the first computer programmer for her work on the Analytical Engine.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

This chemist and engineer's legacy includes the invention of dynamite and the establishment of the world’s most famous prize for physics and economics.

Who is Alfred Nobel?