🌱 Biology 🌱
This is a difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
Eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus, are larger, and have organelles, etc.
This is the technique used to find the area under a curve
What is integration?
This person is widely considered the father of modern computer science
Who is Alan Turing?
This bird is McGill’s Mascot
Who is Marty the Martlet?
One of the original six teams in the PWHL
Who are the Boston Fleet/Minnesota Frost/Toronto Sceptres/Montreal Victoire/Ottawa Charge/New York Sirens?
This is the colour of octopus blood
What is blue? (Bonus points if you can answer why!)
This is the only positive integer that is neither a prime number nor a composite number
What is 1?
This is the world’s first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
McGill has this many libraries
What is 12?
This is the only element that was discovered before it was found on Earth
What is Helium?
Diffusion is faster across: a bacterium or a human cell?
What is a bacterium?
This scalar indicates how much a special kind of vector is stretched/squished when acted on by a linear transformation
What is an eigenvalue?
Why do we call coding mistakes "bugs"?
It originated from an actual moth being stuck in a physical computer in 1947
This is McGill’s ranking in the world according to QS World University Rankings 2026
What is 27?
Known as the 'Queen of the piano', she was more famous than her husband, a German composer, during the Romantic era
Who is Clara Schumann?
This species of jellyfish uses transdifferentiation to reverse its lifecycle from medusa to poly and be considered 'immortal'
What is Turritopsis dohrnii (aka. Benjamin Button of the ocean)?
This is Euler’s identity
What is eiπ + 1 = 0 ?
This is a sorting algorithm where a pivot is selected; all smaller elements are placed before it, and all larger elements are placed after it
What is quicksort?
McGill was founded in this year (± 20 years)
When is 1821?
This is the northernmost, permanently inhabited settlement in Canada
Where is Alert, Nunavut?
This is the process whereby animals eat algae, sequester their chloroplasts, and gain photosynthetic abilities
What is kleptoplasty?
This stochastic process is named after a botanist and models random, continuous motion
What is Brownian motion?
This computational method is widely used in drug discovery and predicts how proteins interact with small molecules
What is molecular docking?
This is the total number of students enrolled at McGill (± 300)
What is 40 531? (Fall 2025)
This is the speed of the fastest pitch ever thrown in NCAA softball history (± 5 mph)
What is 79.4mph? (thrown by Karlyn Pickens)