Lights, Camera, Action
Which Michael Crichton based science movie sees the use of a mosquito trapped in amber to bring back extinct life?
Jurassic Park
ArXiv, In Review, bioRxiv and SSRN are all common examples of what?
Preprint servers
Hedgehog
True - Hedgehog (hh) is a gene involved in segment polarity.
Fantastic yeasts and where to find them: the hidden diversity of dimorphic fungal pathogens
Published In: Current Opinion in Microbiology"
Who was the first woman to win a nobel prize?
Marie Curie in 1903 for the discover of radiation.
Which 2021 Oscar nominated film sees scientists being ignored resulting in the complete destruction of earth?
Don't Look Up
OA Week is typically held in what month?
October
Othello
False - but there is a Hamlet (ham) gene the encodes transcription factor that regulates neuron fate selection
Dragon's Den: the enterprising mating behaviour of Varanus komodensis
Fake!
Which noble gas is frequently used lights often used for signage?
Neon
With lockdown and stay at home orders in early 2020, many viewers decide to re-watch Steven Sodenberg's 2011 film. What was it's title?
Contagion
At ASCB scientists signed a declaration recognizing the need to have better ways other than the Impact Factor to assess researchers, what is the declaration more commonly known as?
DORA
Pink panther
False - sadly no pink panther gene.
50 Shades of sequencing: ATAC-seq to Z-seq
Fake
Which British scientist has won the Chemistry Nobel Prize twice and has an institute named after him?
Frederick Sanger
This 1997 movie featuring Jude Law uses DNA base letters for it's title. What is the movie called?
Gattaca
We talk about FAIR data, but does the acronym FAIR stand for?
Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability
Kenny
True - predicted to enable K63-linked polyubiquitin modification-dependent protein binding activity. So called because flies without Kenny die within 2 days and named after the South Park character that dies in every episode.
One ring to multiplex them all
Published in: Nature (News and Views)
Which noble gas is the exception to the octet (stable-8) rule? Argon, Helium or Neon?
Helium
In the 1987 biopic film "Life Story" about the discovery of the structure of DNA which actor plays James Watson?
Jeff Goldblum
Who designed the orange open padlock OA logo?
PLOS
Ken and Barbie
True - ken gene encodes a transcription factor involved in genitalia development
miR, miR on the wall, who's the most malignant medulloblastoma miR of them all?
Published In: Neuro-Oncology (Review)
Which scientist won the 2012 Nobel Prize alongside John Gurdon "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" and has four transcription factors named after him?
Shinya Yamanaka