Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
Miscellaneous
100

Is silicone a conductor, semi-conductor, or insulator?

What is semi-conductor?

100

What was the first computer mouse made of?

What is wood?

100

Engineer Gilbert Levin insisted that a Viking Lander discovered life on what planet in 1976?

What is Mars?

100

What is another way to write x-2

What is 1/x2

100

What is the medical term for a cut?

What is laceration?

200

What are the units for power?

What is watts?

200

What Harvard dropout co-founded Microsoft?

Who is Bill Gates?

200

Ohm's law of electricity, expressed as "V = IR," states that voltage is directly proportional to current, represented by I, and what quantity represented by the letter R?

What is resistance?

200

What word describes a whole number that is not a fraction?

What is Integer?

200

Gustatory cells are primarily found on what sensory organ of the body?

What is the tongue?

300

True or false, parallel currents in the same direction exert an attractive force on each other?

What is true?

300

The companies HP, Microsoft and Apple were all started in a what?

What is a garage?

300

What is another name for carbon nanotubes?

What is fullerenes or buckytubes?

300

What is the type of number expressed as a pair of a real and an imaginary number? An example would be 3 + 6i where i = the square root of -1.

What is a complex number?

300

Which of the four standard bases in DNA typically pairs with thymine?

What is adenine?

400

What are the first 5 prefixes (for number of carbons) when naming a chemical compound?

What is meth-, eth-, prop-, but-?

400

In a photo editing program, what do the letters RGB stand for?

What is red, green, and blue?

400

What property describes the ability of a material containing a crack to resist fracture?

What is fracture toughness?

400

What mathematical function can be defined as multiplying a number with all integers less than or equal to that number?

What is a factorial?

400

What type of chemical bond is formed when two atoms each contribute one electron to a shared pair?

What is Covalent Bond?

500

List (in order of stability from most stable to least stable) the following newman projections (eclipsed conformation, gauche conformation, total eclipsed conformation, anti-conformation)

1. Anti conformation (staggered) 

2. Gauche Conformation 

3. Eclipsed Conformation 

4. Total Eclipsed Conformation

500

What do the letters HTML, a markup language used to create web pages, stand for?

What is Hypertext Markup Language?

500

What is the name for the graphical representation of shear and normal stresses on an object?

What is Mohrs Circle?

500

A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, apart from the number itself. What is the smallest perfect number?

What is 6?

500

What is the two-word phrase for the set of ideas that suggest the universe is not made up of points, but rather tiny vibrating lengths?

What is String Theory?