Former Harvard professors William Lipscomb, Elias Corey, and Martin Karplus have all won Nobel Prizes in what category?
Chemistry
The wire inside an electric bulb is known as the what?
Filament
What’s the name of the study of fungi?
Mycology
Created in 2009, what was the first decentralized cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin
How many seconds are in one day?
86,400
What common ingredient do all salts have?
A metal
Which law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Newton's 3rd law of motion
What’s the term for organisms that can’t make their own food?
Heterotrophs
What does HTTP stand for in a website address?
HyperText Transfer Protocol
What is the smallest perfect number?
6
The compound H2O2, which can be used in hair bleaches, is typically referred to by what two-word name?
Hydrogen peroxide
What type of electromagnetic radiation has the highest energy?
Gamma rays
What’s the scientific name for the voice box?
Larynx
What is the binary equivalent of the decimal number 15?
1111
What mathematical theory explains the randomness of nature?
Butterfly effect
Japanese chemist Akira Yoshino switched from low-yield polyacetylene to a carbonaceous material electrode in 1985, locking in what critical piece of cell phone tech?
Lithium-ion battery
In mathematical physics, Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and which other quantity?
Time
The first type of animal cloned was? Bonus points for its name.
Domestic sheep, Dolly
What is a hardware component that is attached to a computer and is used to receive or get information out of, but is not part of the core components?
A peripheral device
Find an equation that makes 0 0 0 = 6.
(0!+0!+0!)!=6
Name this element: Cf
Californium
What FPS video game developed by Valve and published for Windows in 1998 launched a globally successful franchise? Hint: It shares its name with a scientific term used in nuclear physics to describe the stability of atoms.
Half-life
Which genetic disorder is caused by a mutation in the CFTR gene?
Cystic Fibrosis
What is the name of the widely used programming language developed by Microsoft?
Visual Basic
Differentiate y=7x2 - 3e3x+1
14x - 9e3x+1