🧪Science Smorgasbord
The chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1.
What is Hydrogen?
The artist who painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This California national park is famous for its giant sequoia trees and the granite monolith El Capitan.
What is Yosemite National Park?
This red planet is the most likely candidate for future human colonization.
What is Mars?
This very simple code is often the first thing new programmers learn to make a computer display a message.
What is "Hello, World!"?
The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy, creating food.
What is photosynthesis?
The art period characterized by bold colors, expressive brushstrokes, and distorted forms, famous for artists like Van Gogh and Monet.
What is Impressionism (or Post-Impressionism)?
A large, furry mammal known for its excellent sense of smell and often seen (or warned about) in many mountain national parks.
What is a bear?
The group of stars that forms the recognizable "dipper" shape, which is part of the Ursa Major constellation.
What is the Big Dipper?
A structured way to organize and store data, such as a stack, queue, or linked list.
What are Data Structures?
The force that keeps us from floating off the Earth and governs the motion of the planets.
What is gravity?
This fictional FBI Agent is Neal Caffrey's handler and eventual close friend on the show White Collar.
Who is Peter Burke?
This essential navigation tool, paired with a map, uses the Earth's magnetic field to help a hiker determine their cardinal direction.
What is a compass?
The famous space telescope launched in 1990 that has provided stunning images of distant galaxies and nebulae.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope (or Hubble)?
This massive, popular AI chatbot was released by the company OpenAI in late 2022 and can write code, essays, and even poems.
What is ChatGPT?
The law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
A term used for a replica of an original artwork, often sold illegally and something Neal Caffrey often dealt with or created.
What is a forgery?
The type of hot spring or vent found in Yellowstone National Park that erupts periodically, like Old Faithful.
What is a geyser?
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the Event Horizon?
Known for formalizing the concepts of algorithm and computation with his "A-machine," this scientist's work laid the theoretical groundwork for modern computers.
Who is Alan Turing?
The specific area of science that combines computer science and biology to analyze complex biological data, often abbreviated as BI.
What is Bioinformatics?
This period from the 14th to 16th century in Europe is known for the flourishing of art, architecture, and learning, and literally means "rebirth."
What is the Renaissance?
The US government agency founded in 1916 that manages all of the nation's 63 official National Parks.
What is the National Park Service (NPS)?
The theory that describes the origin and expansion of the universe from an extremely hot, dense state.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The term for the vast, decentralized global system of interconnected computer networks that we use every day.
What is the Internet?