Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Current Event
Geography
Brain Teaser
Data and Computer Science
Random
Final Jeopardy
100
This mechanism repairs double-strand DNA breaks by using an undamaged DNA sequence as a template to restore the original sequence.
What is homologous recombination?
100
Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as the first woman to lead this country this year.
Mexico
100
This is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River ?
100
1990 = 3
2123 = 0
1788 = 4
2020 = 2
1898 = ?
5
(Numbers of circles)
100
This popular data structure, used in many algorithms, stores key-value pairs and is optimized for fast retrieval of values based on a given key.
What is a hash map (or hash table)?
100
This is the full name of GPS.
Global Positioning System
200
The lagging strand of DNA is synthesized discontinuously during replication. What are the short stretches of DNA produced on this strand called?
Okazaki fragments
200
This sport was at the Summer Olympics for the very first time this year?
Extra 200 for answering which country wins gold medals (men and women)
What is Breaking?
Men (Canada)
Women (Japan)
200
This is the science of making maps
Cartography
200
Two has 3, Three has 5, and Four has 4.
Logically, how may does Five have?
4 (number of letter)
200
This data structure is designed for efficient searching, inserting, and deleting of items, and is commonly used in databases and file systems. It maintains a balanced tree where nodes contain multiple keys and children pointers to allow for faster access to large datasets.
What is a B-tree?
200
This Australian breakdancer went viral for her special breakdancing moves at the 2024 Olympics
Who is Raygun (Louise Gunn)
300
In CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, this component of the system directs the Cas9 protein to the specific DNA sequence to be cut.
What is the guide RNA (gRNA)?
300
These two hurricanes hit Florida in October 2024.
What is Helene and Milton?
300
This archipelago, located off the coast of Ecuador, contributed to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
300
These are mirror images of
1 2 3 4 5
300
This technique uses an eigenvalue decomposition approach to identify the orthogonal components that capture the most variance in high-dimensional data, effectively transforming it into a lower-dimensional space while minimizing information loss.
What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
300
This type of machine learning algorithm consists of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, that compete against each other to produce realistic data. It is commonly used to generate realistic images and videos.
What is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)?
400
The pH at which a molecule carries no net electrical charge is known as this.
What is the isoelectric point?
400
This animated film surpassed "The Lion King" to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time in 2024.
What is "Inside Out 2"?
400
This landlocked country in Central Asia is home to the largest lake by surface area in the world.
Extra 200 for naming the lake
What is Kazakhstan?
(The Caspian Sea)
400
if teh below are all true ...
1 = 5
2 = 27
3 = 125
4= 1880
what is 5 = ?
1
because 1 = 5
400
What is the out put of this Python Code?
nums = [5, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 2]
print(nums[0:4:2])
[5 , 4]
400
This phenomenon occurs when two genetic mutations that individually would not cause cell death combine to result in cell death, often exploited in cancer therapies to target specific weaknesses in tumor cells.
What is synthetic lethality?
500
This type of DNA damage, often caused by UV radiation, involves the covalent bonding of 2 bases within the same strand.
What is a thymine dimer?
500
This composer’s previously unknown serenade, believed to have been written in the 1760s when he was a teenager, was discovered in 2024 in the Leipzig Municipal Libraries.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
This narrow waterway, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
What is the Suez Canal?
500
What comes next in this sequence below?
OE, O, EE, OU, IE, I ,EE, ?
EI
(Those are the vowels from ONE to EIGHT)
ONE -> OE
TWO -> O
500
This sorting algorithm, often chosen for its simplicity, works by repeatedly swapping adjacent elements if they are in the wrong order.
What is its name and time complexity in big O notation
Bubble Sort, O(N2)
500
These two months of the year are named after mortal men
July and August
600
This term describes the phenomenon where one gene influences multiple, seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits.
What is pleiotropy?
600
This Catholic Event which will span from December 24, 2024 to January 6, 2026 was announced at this 2000 event by Pope John Paul II.
What is Jubilee?
600
Name the state
Iowa
600
What is this Nine Letter word?
↓ ← → → T ↑ → ↓ ↓
SWEETNESS
↓ = SOUTH
← =WEST
→ = EAST
↑ = NORTH
600
This technique for unsupervised learning seeks to group data points by similarity, but unlike k-means, it does not require the number of clusters to be predefined.
What is DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise)?
600
This unsolved problem in computer science proposes whether every problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time.
What is P vs NP?
700
This process is a key feature of cancer metabolism, where cancer cells preferentially produce energy through glycolysis, even in the presence of oxygen.
What is the Warburg effect?
700
This is the Oxford Word of the Year 2024
What is 'Brain Rot'?
700
Name this Country.
Bulgaria
700
You may have to try and fail a few times before you get this, what is the letter next in the sequence
T E R R I R A O L _
R
The odd Number letter Spells TRIAL
The even Number Letter Spells ERROR
700
This algorithm, often used in graph theory, finds the shortest path between two nodes in a weighted graph and has a time complexity of O(V²) using the simplest implementation.
What is Dijkstra’s Algorithm?
700
This treaty, signed in 1919, formally ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
700
These three names refer to the same type of storm, but their names differ based on the region:
1 . This one occurs in the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific,
2. tHis one in the Northwest Pacific,
3. and the third in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.
What are hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones?