Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
MESA
100

What are the four states of matter?

Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma

100

One gigabyte is equal to how many megabytes?

1000

100

What is a technology that uses layers of material to create a three-dimensional object from a digital file?

3D printing

100

What do you call the longest side of a right triangle (that is, the side that’s opposite the right angle)?

Hypotenuse 

100

What does MESA stand for?

Math

Science

Engineering 

Achievement

200

What is the chemical symbol for Tin?

Sn

200

What does CPU stand for?

Central Processing Unit

200
What is the flow of current in solids due to?



Movement of free electrons

200

Known for illustrating the relation between each side of a right triangle, what famous theorem is best known by its famous equation?

Pythagorean theorem

200

Which of the MESA ambassadors has worked here the longest?

Lenice


300

What is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?

Oxygen

300

What does the acronym "Wi-Fi" stand for?


Trick question, it doesn't stand for anything.

300

What kind of bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco?

Suspension Bridge



300

Solve this equation: 

7 - 24 ÷ 8 X 4 + 6

The answer is - 1

300

Name 6 tutors in the MESA center.

Lenice, Isabel, Melanie, Nathanael, George, and Darien.

400

What is the largest desert on Earth?

Antarctica. Because it receives less than 6 inches of rain per year, Antarctica counts as a desert. The Sahara Desert is the second largest.

400

What telescope did NASA launch in 1990 to help scientist learn more about our Solar System?
A. Hubble Space Telescope

B. International Space Telescope

C. Refracting Telescope

D. Reversing Telescope

A. Hubble Space Telescope

400

What is the highest paying engineering job as of 2025?
A) Software 

B) AeroSpace

C) Geospatial Science and Technology

D)Petroleum 

Software

400

What set of three positive integers give the same result whether you add them all or multiply them all together?

1, 2 and 3

400

When did Mira Costa MESA start?

Spring 2024

500

At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

Minus 40 degrees

500

What is the only US state that can be typed using only one row from your keyboard?

EX-  QWERTYUIOP

The top row of your keyboard.

Alaska

500

There are five gears connected in a row. If the first gear is rotating clockwise what direction is the fifth gear turning?

Clockwise

500

Can you find a seven digit number which describes itself? The first digit is the number of zeros in the number. The second digit is the number of ones in the number, etc. For example, in the number 21200, there are 2 zeros, 1 one, 2 twos, 0 threes and 0 fours.


3211000

500

Which MESA staff owns a crossbow in case of a zombie apocalypse?

Professor Angela