Promega Buildings &
Their Namesakes
Their Namesakes
This building celebrates the Renaissance genius known for his contributions to art, science, and engineering.
daVinci
This 2015 movie features a stranded astronaut who survives on Mars by growing potatoes.
The Martian
Before being named Promega, the company was originally called this.
Biotec
Within 500, how many individual cookies and sweets did Elaine make in 2024?
Between 7,500 - 8,000
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2025 will be the Year of this animal, symbolizing wisdom, transformation, and introspection.
Snake
This building is named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
Feynman
In Jurassic Park, scientists used DNA from this insect to recreate dinosaurs.
Mosquito
Promega celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2018, on January 22nd of that same year this person was hired.
Elizabeth Duncan
Each York child and their partner are required to decorate this many sugar cookies.
200
On February 9, 2025, this event will take place at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Super Bowl
This building is named after the inventor whose work on frequency-hopping technology paved the way for modern Wi-Fi.
Lamarr
In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper often wears shirts featuring logos related to this branch of physics.
Theoretical Physics
The Maxwell RSC 48 was used by scientists in Antarctica to extract nucleic acids from penguins to study this virus.
Avian Flu Virus
How many different types of cookies and sweets did Elaine make in 2024? (guess within 3)
26
Yesterday marked what would have been this iconic music figure's 90th birthday.
Elvis Presley
This building pays tribute to the scientist whose X-ray crystallography work was key to discovering the DNA double helix structure.
Rosalind Franklin Center (RFC)
In Back to the Future, Doc Brown uses this radioactive element to power the DeLorean's time machine.
Plutonium
What is the name of the Promega garden that produces thousands of pounds of organic produce each year used by our Culinary Team?
Daly Fields (named after biochemist Marie Maynard Daly)
This is Elaine’s favorite cookie to make.
White chocolate cherry cookie
In 2025, a total lunar eclipse will take place on this date which is associated with a popular mathematical constant and dessert.
March 14
This building is named after the NASA scientist who pioneered methods for detecting life by studying bioluminescence in cells.
Chappelle
The hit Netflix series Stranger Things prominently features this field of physics.
Quantum Mechanics
Name one of the two employees who started on April 1, 1984, and are the longest-tenured current employees at Promega behind Bill Linton.
Randy Dimond and Arlene Silveira
This is the hardest cookie for Elaine to make, taking an entire day.
Pecan cups
This country will host the World Expo 2025, themed "Designing Future Society for Our Lives."
Japan