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This woman has an element on the periodic table of elements named after her and helped to discover two other elements
Madame Curie
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Ecole Polytechnique Massacre
December 6th, 1989
100
The largest organ in the human body
Skin
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On a planet with unknown gravity, a ball falls 1.00 m in 1.43 seconds.
If it starts from rest, what is the gravity on this planet?
y=y0+v0t+(1/2)at2
0.978 m/s2
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The host of Jeopardy!
Alex Trebek
200
She is the first female astronaut
Sally Ride
200
The year the first woman flew in space
1963
200
This electronic circuit component reduces current flow by converting electrical energy into heat
Resistor
200
What is the resistance of a lamp if it draws 0.25 A from a 110 V line?
440 ohms
200
In 2016, Leanardo De Caprio FINALLY won an Oscar for this movie
The Revenant
300
Their stories were recently told in the movie Hidden Figures
Katherine Jonson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson
300
The year an airplane first sustained flight
1903
300
The tendency for a body to remain stationary or in motion uniformly until acted on by an external force
Inertia
300
37 x 86 = ?
3182
300
Most streamed song of 2017 on the Official Charts
Shape of you, Ed Sheeran
400
She was the first female programmer
Ada Lovelace
400
Amelia Earhart crossed the Atlantic
June 17-18, 1928
400
This group of elements is found along the “staircase” of the periodic table
Metalloids
400
A flag contains 5 horizontal strips. In how different ways can the flag be painted using 4 different colours such that one colour is painted per strip and no two adjacent strips have the same colour?
4 x 34 = 324
400
This TV show, about a mother and her daughter's life together, ran from 2000 to 2007. It returned for a mini-series of four episodes on Netflix in 2016
Gilmore Girls
500
She was a WWII POW Nurse award 34 Medals and Citations, including 2 Bronze Stars from the Army, died in 2002 at the age of 94
Col. Ruby Bradley
500
The year Concordia Engineering School becomes the first in Canada named after a woman as alumna gives a large donation
2018
500
A way for computer programs to repeat steps based on defined or shifting variations
Conditional loop
500
A bacteria culture doubles in size every 20 min. How long will it take for a culture of 50 bacteria to grow to a population of 250 000?
4.095 hours or 245.754 minutes
500
The full name of the UNC
James Peter Meekinson Centre for Students