Science Olympiad
Name three Science Olympiad events.
Example: What is Codebusters, Crimebusters, and Mission Possible?
The shape that a rainbow takes (though we can't always see it).
What is a circle?
The guy who is famous for the equation E = mc^2.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The formula that solves an equation of this form:
ax^2+bx+c=0
What is the quadratic formula?
The person who proved that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
Who is Pythagoras?
The number of divisions Science Olympiad has.
What is 3?
The third planet from the sun.
What is earth?
The year Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.
4^(-1/2)
What is 1/2?
5 in Roman numerals.
What is V?
The number of events the 2024-2025 Division B Science Olympiad has.
What is 23?
RNA stands for it.
What is ribonucleic acid?
Who was the REAL person who discovered the structure of DNA? (Hint: NOT Watson or Crick)
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The formula that gives the area of a triangle given its SIDE LENGTHS (not the height).
What is Heron's formula?
The number of years the AMC series of math competitions have been around.
What is 74? (We will also accept 75!)
The state of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is North Carolina?
The last year dinosaurs were alive.
What is 65,000,000 B.C.?
The oldest science.
What is astronomy?
The theorem that gives the area of a figure on the Cartesian plane given the coordinates of its vertices.
What is the shoelace theorem?
The person who introduced Arabic numerals (like 1, 2, 3) to Europe.
Who is Fibonacci?
The year of the first Science Olympiad competition.
What is 1974?
The tallest grass on Earth.
What is bamboo?
The year the lightbulb was invented.
What is 1879?
The best Wordle starting word (according to statistics).
What is "salet"
The people who discovered/invented calculus.
Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton?