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100

What percent of STEM workers are women?

25%

100

What is 9 + 10?

19

21 (100 bonus points)

100

What is a material that will not carry an electrical charge called?

An insulator
100

How many bones do we have in our body?

205 

100

What larger variant of the "sweet" banana is frequently used for cooking?

plantains

200

What does STEM stand for?

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

200

How did Ben Franklin feel after discovering electricity?

shocked

200


87

200

What is an interesting biology fact?

:)

200

Strangely enough, the Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for the "fastest wing beat of a bird" and the record holder has an astonishing 200 beats/flaps per SECOND. This record-holder is the ruby-throated variety of what type of bird?

hummingbird

300

Name your favorite Woman in STEM

!

300

What kind of chemical element hates to be a follower?

lead

300


1

300

What is the rarest blood type in humans?

AB-

300

If an infectious microbe is pyrogenic, that means that it causes what condition, defined by the CDC as a body temperature of more than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in humans?

Fever

400

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and what was it for?

Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes (one in physics and one in chemistry)

If radioactivity is included in your answer, that could also be right!

400

What is the best type of medicine?

Laughter :)

400

Chlorine, bromine and iodine are members of which group of chemical elements?

Halogens

400

The two subunits of the organelle known as the endoplasmic reticulum are typically abbreviated RER and SER. What do the "R" and "S" stand for in these abbreviations?

rough and smooth

400

What dozy treetop mammal can hold its breath underwater for a whopping 40 minutes, even longer than dolphins?

Sloths!

500

What is this image and who discovered it?

Double helix (DNA) discovered by Rosalind Franklin

500

I can be good for you, I can be bad, I can be found all over inside and outside your body. I am microscopic, single-celled and have no nucleus.

Bacteria

500

Which gas can be used to fill balloons, and to effect a comedy voice if inhaled ...? You have to provide the chemical symbol!

Helium - He

500

In DNA, the four nucleotide bases are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine; in RNA, what base replaces thymine?

Uracil

500

Why did you join VWIS?

:)