Premed Jeopardy

NU professors

100

Which professor has a chicken video?

Priest 

200

Which professor won a Nobel prize for discovery of molecular machines?

Stoddart

300

Which professor researches the mouse olfactory system? 

Bozza

400

Which professor came up with the method used to estimate the relative π orbital energies of aromatic compounds?

Frost

Basic Science

100

How many stable isotopes do carbon have? 

2

200

What is the pKa of H₃O⁺?

-2

300

What is the lightest noble gas?

Helium

400

What is a light-sensitive protein responsible for vision?

rhodopsin

MCAT

100

What is the highest score on MCAT? 

528

200

How long is the MCAT?

7.5-hour

300

When is the next MCAT test date?

March 24

400

What’s Northwestern’s average MCAT score?

515

Misc. NU

100

What percent of NU pre-meds take a gap year?

70%

200

Who is this year’s commencement speaker?

Renée Fleming

300

What is the official name of Northwestern’s premed advising office?

Health Professions Advising

400

What NU alumnus performed the first ever open heart surgery

Daniel Hale Williams