Women in History
This pioneering scientist discovered radium and polonium and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This is the powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondrion?
This science show hosted by Bill Nye was a staple for teaching kids about science in the 1990s.
What is Bill Nye the Science Guy?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
Known as the "Mother of Computer Programming," this mathematician wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The deepest point in the world's oceans, known as the Mariana Trench, is located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This green pigment in plants is essential for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
Premiering in 2003, this popular show tested the validity of myths and urban legends using science and engineering.
What is MythBusters?
This law states that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
What is Newton's third law of motion?
This NASA "human computer" helped plot trajectories that allowed John Glenn to orbit Earth in 1962.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This layer of Earth is composed mostly of iron and nickel and is solid in the center.
What is the inner core?
These structures in animal cells are responsible for breaking down cellular waste and worn-out organelles.
What are lysosomes?
This 2014 reboot hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson was a modern take on Carl Sagan’s original series exploring the universe.
What is Cosmos?
The unit of electrical resistance is named after this scientist.
What is Ohm?
She helped develop CRISPR gene-editing technology and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.
Who is Jennifer Doudna?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The human body has this number of chromosomes.
What is 46?
This BBC nature series narrated by David Attenborough took viewers on a stunning tour of Earth's wildlife.
What is Planet Earth?
This theory, proposed by Albert Einstein, explains the relationship between mass and energy.
What is the theory of relativity?
An influential physicist and chemist, she contributed to early quantum mechanics research and was the only woman invited to the Solvay Conference in 1927.
Who is Irène Joliot-Curie?
This tectonic boundary between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate has formed the Himalayan mountain range.
What is a convergent boundary?
This process describes a cell engulfing another cell or particle, like how white blood cells capture bacteria.
What is phagocytosis?
This show, hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, explored extreme possibilities in science and technology, from time travel to faster-than-light travel.
What is Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible?
This principle, developed by Werner Heisenberg, states that the exact position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously known.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?