STEM Club Board II

Historic Figures

100

The only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, her doctoral thesis on radioactivity is regarded as the most famous Ph.D. thesis of all time.

Marie Curie

200

In 1943, this man died in Tuskegee, Alabama, leaving behind his legacy as one of the most prominent black scientists of the 20th century and as an incredible peanut farmer

George Washington Carver

300

Born in 1918 West Virginia, this mathematician’s calculations propelled the orbital mechanics of NASA’s future shuttles. In 2016, she was portrayed by Taraji P Henson in Hidden Figures.

Katherine Johnson

400

Born in 1170 Pisa, Italy, he popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe and is now known for his famous sequence of numbers.

Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo Bonacci or Leonardo of Pisa

500

Known for her work on the first theoretical design of a computer, this English Countess was the only child of poet Lord Byron

Ada Lovelace

Math Puzzles

100

If

4+4=20

5+5=30

6+6=42

7+7=56

Then what is 8+8=?

Answer: 72

Explanation:     4*5=20

        5*6=30

        6*7=42

        7*8=56

        8*9=72

200

If

5+3=28

8+1=79

6+2=48

5+4=19

Then what is 7+2=?

Answer: 59

Explanation:     (50-30)+(5+3)=20+8=28

        (80-10)+(8+1)=70+9=79

        (60-20)+(6+2)=40+8=48

        (50-40)+(5+4)=10+9=19

        (70-20)+(7+2)=50+9=59

300

If

2+7=2

6+8=12

5+4=15

9+3=36

Then what is 8+1=?

Answer: 40

Explanation:     2*1=2

        6*2=12

        5*3=15

        9*4=36

        8*5=40

400

If

2+4=2

6+8=12

4+10=10

12+20=60

Then what is 24+50=?

Answer: 300

Explanation:     (2/2)*(4/2)=1*2=2

        (6/2)*(8/2)=3*4=12

        (4/2)*(10/2)=2*5=10

        (12/2)*(20/2)=6*10=60

        (24/2)*(50/2)=12*25=300

500

If

1+5=26

3+7=52

6+8=70

9+4=25

Then what is 2+6=?

Answer: 38

Explanation:     1+5*5=1+25=26

        3+7*7=3+29=52

        6+8*8=6+64=70

        9+4*4=9+16=25

        2+6*6=2+36=38

Earth Science

100

What is the fastest moving land animal on Earth?

The cheetah

200

What is the reason for the tides?

The moon's gravitational pull.

300

20% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by which rainforest?

Amazon Rainforest

400

What is required for a plant to go through photosynthesis

Carbon dioxide, water, chlorophyll, and sunlight

500

'Cascade', 'horsetail', 'plunge' and 'tiered' are types of what?

Waterfalls

Astronomy

100

How far away is Earth from the sun?

91.645 million miles

200

What are the only two planets in our solar system without moons?

Mercury and Venus

300

The three main parts of a comet are the nucleus, the tail, and the _____?

Coma

400

What color is the sunset on Mars?

Blue

500

What sound is out in space?

None

Biology

100

What is the smallest unit of living things?

Cells

200

Name three different body systems

Acceptable answers: Integumentary System, Skeletal System, Muscular System, Digestive System, Respiratory System, Excretory System, Circulatory System, Nervous System, Endocrine System, Immune System, Reproductive System

300

What bodily fluid can dissolve stainless steel?

Stomach acid

400

A change of the DNA in an organism that can result in a new trait

A mutation

500

Meiosis and mitosis are two types of______________.

Cell division