Science Olympiad
Science Trivia
Science History
Mathy-stuff
Scientists
100

Name 5 Science Olympiad events.

Example: What is Codebusters, Crimebusters, and Mission Possible?

100

These form from snow and run off and have a significant impact on geography.

What is a glacier?

100

This American statesman and inventor installed a rod on his home to test his theory that the tall metallic rod would attract lightning.

Benjamin Franklin

100

This is the formula to find Density?

Density = Mass / Volume

100

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?

200

The number of divisions Science Olympiad has.

What is 3?

200

What are sesamoid bones?

Round, circular bones (patella).

200

Edward Jenner developed the concept of vaccination as well as a smallpox vaccine based on this other more mild disease.

Cowpox

200

How do you calculate Retention Factor (Rf)?

Distance the solute travels/distance solvent travels

200

The guy famous for E=mc^2

Who is Albert Einstein

300

The number of events Division B Science Olympiad has.

What is 23?

300

RNA stands for....

What is ribonucleic acid?

300

In this year, Watson and Crick published a paper that outlined the double helix structure of DNA

1953

300

This is what Snell's Law calculates.

Refraction

300

The first person to discover the shape of DNA (double helix).


Rosalind Franklin.

400

The state of the first Science Olympiad competition.

What is North Carolina?

400

The flagellum of a bacterium is primarily used for this purpose.

Mobility

400

The oldest branch of science.

What is astronomy?

400

Something is considered aerodynamic if it reduces this.

What is the drag?

400

The person who introduced Arabic numerals (like 1, 2, 3) to Europe.

Who is Fibonacci?

500

The year of the first Science Olympiad competition.

What is 1974?

500

Factors in an ecosystem that are not alive.

What is abiotic.

500

This is what Alexander Flemming discovered in 1928.

Penecillin

500

The larger the star is, the ____ luminous it is.

more

500

One of the people who discovered/invented calculus.

Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton?

600

At which university will the 2025 National Science Olympiad tournament take place?

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

600

These are some of the oldest fossils, and are considered layers of sediment and microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria, that keep an important record of ancient climate and life.

What are stromatolites

600
Mendeleev was credited with creating the first periodic table in this year?

1869

600

Binary number systems, often found in computer programming, use only these two digits.

1 and 0

600

This person is considered the father of genetics. 

Gregor Mendel