Spooky Science
In this classic sci-fi movie, machines use human brains as batteries in a virtual reality world
The Matrix
This scientist is known for formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation
Newton
This structure is often called the “fear center” of the brain
amygdala
This is the strongest bone in the human body
Femur
What is the cat's name?
Tater
This famous study at an Ivey League simulated a prison environment and showed how quickly people adopt roles of authority and submission
Stanford Prison experiment
This woman won two Nobel Prizes in different fields of science, including chemistry and physics
Marie Curie
This spooky-sounding phenomenon, sometimes experienced by amputees, involves feeling sensations in a missing limb
phantom limb symdrome
This muscle property allows tissues to store and release energy, often compared to a "spring" mechanism in human movement
elasticity
What apartment # is this?
1109
This disorder, which sounds spooky, causes people to wake up unable to move due to a temporary inability to move
Sleep paralysis
This scientist’s work with salivating dogs laid the foundation for classical conditioning
Pavlov
Known as “face blindness,” this rare condition prevents people from recognizing faces
prosopagnosia
This spooky-sounding term describes the elastic property of muscles and tendons that store energy during movemen
hysteresis
What is Harry Potter's owl's name?
Hedwig
This iconic 19th-century novel explores a doctor’s experiment gone horribly wrong, symbolizing humanity's fear of creating monsters beyond our control.
Frankenstein
Who was the nobel prize winning scientist who discovered nerve growth factor?
Rita-Levi Montalcini
This spooky-sounding algorithm, named after a haunted location, is used in artificial neural networks for backpropagation
This law describes how bone adapts to the loads under which it is placed
Wolff's Law
What does the term "ADL" stand for?
activities of daily living
This rare neurological disorder, often called the "Stone Man Syndrome," progressively turns connective tissues, including muscles, tendons, and ligaments, into bone.
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
This scientist discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic
Alexander Fleming
This neurotransmitter is also called epinephrin
Adrenaline
This principle, crucial in biomechanics, states that the force exerted by a fluid on a body within it is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by that body.
Archimedes' Principle
what was the hardest decoration to put up?
bat net