Nerd Quiz

Geography/Geology

100

This country has an area of 3.855 million square miles (2nd in the world) and a population of 41.29 million people (37th in the world).

Canada

200

This location is the lowest place on the Earth's surface, at 10,984 feet below sea level.

Mariana Trench / Challenger Deep

300

Name two of the three geological periods in which the dinosaurs lived.

a) Triassic

b) Jurassic

c) Cretaceous

400

This region contains the farthest point from the ocean on Earth

Taklimakan Desert

500

This British island territory has the capital Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

Tristan da Cunha

Biology

100

This black-feathered bird has the scientific name Corvus corax

Common raven

200

The name given to the tail of a bacterium

Flagellum

300

A type of cell organelle that can be found in both rough and smooth forms.

Endoplasmic reticulum

400

The full name of DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid

500

Name one example of a gastropod

Snails/slugs

History

100

Name one of the two cities upon which the American atomic bomb was dropped in World War II

a) Hiroshima

b) Nagasaki

200

This philosopher famously said that the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing. However, he died by drinking hemlock.

Socrates

300

This ancient Indian culture was one of the first to have flushing toilets and a working plumbing system.

The Harrapans

400

The capital of the Aztec Empire

Teotihuácan

500

This queen of France, when told that the peasants had no bread to eat, famously said "Let them eat cake." She was beheaded during the French Revolution.

Marie Antoinette

Math/Chemistry

100

The chemical symbol for helium in the periodic table

He

200

The square root of 432

12√3

300

The chemical formula for glucose

C₆H₁₂O₆

400

This chemist was one of only five people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes and discovered two elements of the periodic table, one of which is named after her.

Marie Curie

500

The integer defined as zero to the power of zero

0⁰ has been greatly contested by mathematicians. For the purposes of formulas such as (x^a)(x^b)=x^a+b, 0⁰ should be 1. Additionally, all other integers to the zero power is equivalent to 1. However, when graphing the function y=0^x, all values of x other than 0 would be 0. Therefore, by that reasoning, 0⁰ should be zero. Some others also argue that it should simply be undefined because of the ambiguity in this case.

Literature/Culture

100

Name one member of the band that wrote "Yellow Submarine", "Hey Jude", and "Here Comes the Sun".

a) John Lennon

b) Ringo Starr

c) Paul McCartney

d) George Harrison

200

The supreme leader of the First Order in Star Wars

Snoke

300

Name 8 characters from Slothy

Avocado Pear, Pillow Bear, Gustav, Santi, Kaichi, Bobby, Gorilla, Dagzger, Slothy, Mark, Mary, Zaber, Kantanaa, Terry, Jimmy, the Tempestslayer, Cocoa Bean, Claw-Mole, Grassjumber, Chewie, Crunchie, Kiwi, Dylan, Dig-Mole

400

The maximum height an egg can be stacked in Minecraft

16 blocks

500

The author who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain