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100

Infrared waves in the electromagnetic spectrum are responsible for this.


(a) Why is there a temperature increase when you heat up food in a microwave oven?

(b) Why is there a temperature increase when you rub your palms together?

(c) Why is there a temperature increase when you start heating up a container of water?

(d) Why is there a temperature increase beyond the red band after sunlight is passed through a prism?

(d) Why is there a temperature increase beyond the red band after sunlight is passed through a prism?

100

Uranium Oxide



(a) What is ‘black forest cake’?

(b) What is ‘verdant cake’?

(c) What is ‘yellow cake’?

(d) What is ‘pink cake’?

(c) What is ‘yellow cake’?

100

The technology used to genetically modify mammalian embryo.



(a) What is MMR?

(b) What is CRISPR?

(c) What is SCAMPER?

(d) What is PCR?

(b) What is CRISPR?

100

People who work with computers.



(a) What is liveware?

(b) What is malware?

(c) What is ransomware?

(d) What is firmware?

(a) What is liveware?

100

The constellation where the Demon Star, Algol, resides and which is also noted for meteor showers that appear annually in August.


(a) What is Corona Australis?

(b) What is Sculptor?

(c) What is Grus?

(d) What is Perseus?

(d) What is Perseus?

200

Increase in the internal energy of the air.


(a) What is the eventual outcome of the energy of every sound wave in the air?

(b) What is the eventual outcome of the amplitude of every sound wave in the air?

(c) What is the eventual outcome of the phase of every sound wave in the air?

(d) What is the eventual outcome of the wavelength of every sound wave in the air?

(a) What is the eventual outcome of the energy of every sound wave in the air?

200

One of the few alloys of lanthanide elements.


(a) What is Gum metal?

(b) What is Queen's metal?

(c) What is Zamak?

(d) What is Mischmetal?

(d) What is Mischmetal?

200

Animal slumber between summer solstice and fall equinox.


(a) What is Digestion?

(b) What is Hibernation?

(c) What is Aestivation?

(d) What is Respiration?

(c) What is Aestivation?

200

The component that comprises main memory along with RAM and ROM.


(a) What is Drum?

(b) What is Cache?

(c) What is RAM?

(d) What is ROM?

(b) What is Cache?

200

A hypothetical reservoir for comets.


(a) What is Burt cloud?

(b) What is Colt cloud?

(c) What is Oort cloud?

(d) What is Dolt cloud?

(c) What is Oort cloud?

300

A computer's internal clock works on an oscillating mechanism based on this principle.


(a) What is the chronographic effect?

(b) What is the Hall effect?

(c) What is the piezoelectric effect?

(d) What is the thermonuclear effect?

(c) What is the piezoelectric effect?

300

The element that connects Oscars, Conflict Minerals, and the apocryphal account related to the defeat of the French in the Patriotic War of 1812.



(a) What is Silver (Ag)?

(b) What is Tin (Sn)?

(c) What is Lead (Pb)?

(d) What is Copper (Cu)?

(b) What is Tin (Sn)?

300

Nucleoside



(a) What is sugar + base?

(b) What is sugar + base + phosphate?

(c) What is sugar + base + phosphate + phosphodiester linkage?

(d) What is DNA double helix?

(a) What is sugar + base?

300

100



(a) What is 11 + 0?

(b) What is 11 + 1?

(c) What is 11 + 2?

(d) What is 11 + 3?

(b) What is 11 + 1?

300

The clue refers to this event. "Biannual symmetric split of the diurnal and the nocturnal" 



(a) What is an Equinox?

(b) What is a Solstice?

(c) What is an Eclipse?

(d) What is an Aurora?

(a) What is an Equinox?

400

The scientist after whom is named the temperature at which ferromagnetic materials exhibit paramagnetic properties.



(a) Who is Marie Curie?

(b) Who is Pierre Curie?

(c) Who is Irene-Joliot Curie?

(d) Who is Eve Curie?

(b) Who is Pierre Curie?

400

The following relates to this scientist. ‘Borosilicates, Jena, September 11’



(a) Who is Carl Zeiss?

(b) Who is Otto Schott?

(c) Who is Emil Erlenmeyer?

(d) Who is Herbert Kroemer?

(a) Who is Carl Zeiss?

400

The connection between a long-lived biblical figure, a bristlecone pine, and California.



(a) Who is Seth?

(b) Who is Noah?

(c) Who is Jared?

(d) Who is Methuselah?

(d) Who is Methuselah?

400

Shareware



(a) What is paid in the beginning?

(b) What is free to try but then you buy?

(c) What is free forever?

(d) What is not free and not paid?

(b) What is free to try but then you buy?

400

Clusters of galaxies containing maybe hundreds of galaxies, and superclusters containing many clusters. 



(a) What is The Super Universe?

(b) What is The Great Attractor?

(c) What is The Gloomy Cauldron?

(d) What is The Improbability Drive?

(b) What is The Great Attractor?

500

The following haiku relates to these.

"yin yang balance change Up down strange beauty truth charm Universe in flux"


(a) What are atoms?

(b) What are fields?

(c) What are quarks?

(d) What are spins?

(c) What are quarks?

500

 The following haiku relates to this element.

"Temperamental. Even water starts the flames. Bunsen’s fiery child"


(a) What is Potassium (K)?

(b) What is Rubidium (Rb)?

(c) What is Sodium (Na)?

(d) What is Lithium (Li)?

(b) What is Rubidium (Rb)?

500

The following riddle is referring to this process.

" The azure rose did effectuate cell demise."



(a) What is apoptosis due to radicals by blue light?

(b) What is apoptosis due to radicals by red light?

(c) What is apoptosis due to radicals by green light?

(d) What is apoptosis due to radicals by orange light?

(a) What is apoptosis due to radicals by blue light?

500

Yes to binary and Fibonacci but no to bubble, merge, and insertion.

(a) What is search?

(b) What is search and sort?

(c) What is search but not sort?

(d) What is neither search nor sort?

(a) What is search?

500

The argument that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe. Also known as the “dark night sky paradox”.



(a) What is Fermi paradox?

(b) What is Olbers’ Paradox?

(c) What is Borel’s paradox?

(d) What is Wheeler’s paradox?

(b) What is Olbers’ Paradox?