Science
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell...
Mitochondria
What does "CPU" stand for?
Central Processing Unit
This branch of engineering focuses on the design and construction of the physically and naturally built environment...
Civil Engineering
First celebrated in San Francisco in 1988, this mathematical holiday is celebrated annually on March 14th...
Pi Day
This is the basic unit of life in all living organisms...
This subatomic particle has no electric charge and is found in the nucleus of an atom...
What is the name for the wireless networking technology that allows devices to connect to the internet or each other over a local area?
Wi-fi
This simple machine consists of a wheel with a rope or chain and is used to lift heavy objects...
A pulley
A movie theater screening starts at 2:35 pm. The movie lasts for 2 hours, 32 minutes after 23 minutes of previews. It takes 20 minutes to get home from the movie theater. What time should you tell your family that you’ll be home?
5:50
In computer science, this type of loop continues to run as long as a specified condition remains true...
While Loop
What is the name of the process that plants use to convert sunlight into energy?
Photosynthesis
Who is credited with founding Microsoft?
Bill Gates
The common unit of measurement used for force, and is named after a famous scientist is called...
A Newton
Between 4:00 PM and 4:50 PM, the minute hand on Big Ben covers this many degrees...
300
A fish and a half costs a dollar and a half. How much does 12 fish cost?
$12
What is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
This coding system uses the binary digits 0 and 1 to represent a letter, digit, or other character in a computer or other electronic device...
Binary Code
This engineer is credited with inventing the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, this famous Italian mathematician is best known for discovering a sequence where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers...
Fibonacci
This is the process by which a solid turns directly into a gas, without becoming liquid...
Sublimation
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
This hardware is used to store data temporarily, allowing faster access than a hard drive...
RAM
This is the force that resists the relative motion or tendency to move between two surfaces in contact...
Friction
During the math competition scene in the movie “Mean Girls,” the answer to the calculus problem “what is the limit as x approaches zero of [ln(1-x)-sinx]/(1-cos²x)” is this...
The limit does not exist
How many tattoos does Mr. Lonergan have?
6