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100
A bond that is characterized by the "sharing" of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
100

This is the month and year the movie Oppenheimer was released

What is July 2023?

100

Early people were producing these types of changes even though they didn't know what was happening. For example - extracting metals from ores and making jewelry.

What are chemical changes?
100

This is the name of the rock that our football players rub as they run down the Hill during home games.

What is Howard Rock?

100
The only letter of the alphabet that does not appear on the periodic table.
What is the letter J?
200

The resulting precipitate when solutions of AgNO3 and NaCl are added together.

What is silver(I) chloride?

200

This actor is known for portraying Walter White in Breaking Bad

Who is Bryan Cranston?

200

In the early practice of alchemy, it was said that you could turn iron and lead into this element.

What is gold?

200

The year of the Clemson Tigers' first national championship

What is 1981?

200
This consumer product was "accidentally" created in the development of transparent firearm sights.
What is super glue? (cyanoacrylate)
300
Electrochemical cell that is characterized by a spontaneous production of electricity.
What is a galvanic cell?
300

Nolan's Oppenheimer was shot on 70 mm film, with the total weight of the film roll being approximately this much.

What is about 600 lbs?

300

Although pure oxygen is naturally gaseous, this is the color it produces when in a liquid or solid state

What is blue?

300

This is the name of the tunnel previously used to store Clemson's famous bleu cheese from 1956 to 1970

What is the Stumphouse Tunnel?

300
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded in 2017 for advancements in which field?
What is cryo-electron microscopy?
400
The combination of enthalpy and entropy that will always result in a spontaneous reaction based on the Gibbs equation. (Hint: answer each with either "positive" or "negative")
What is negative enthalpy and positive entropy?
400

This is the name of the German company that owned Los Pollos Hermanos in Breaking Bad

What is Madrigal?

400

This vitamin is known to be one of the toughest to synthesize in a lab setting and comes from eating meat, eggs, and dairy products

What is Vitamin B12?

400

This is the name of the new restaurant Dabo Swinney owns in downtown Clemson.

What is Walk-On's Sports Bistreaux?

400
This Group 15 element is known for it's usage in a common pink, chalky antacid medicine.
What is bismuth?
500
The point in a phase diagram in which a substance simultaneously freezes, melts and boils.
What is the triple point?
500

This is the kind of car Walter White drove pre-Heisenburg (the one he ran over the gangsters in).

What is a Pontiac Aztek?

500

The three main locations of the Manhattan Project were Oak Ridge, TN, Hanford, WA, and this final desert city:

What is Los Alamos, NM?

500

These two school colors were originally Clemson's before they faded into orange and purple.

What is red and blue?

500

Isotope with the shortest known half-life, at 2.3 x 10^-23 seconds

What is hydrogen-7?