Women in STEM

Female Science Inventions

100

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for her development of this theory

Radiocactivity

200

American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and author of "Silent Spring"

Rachel Carson

300

Rosalind Franklin used this method to uncover the structure of DNA

X-Ray diffraction

400

Barbara McClintock discovered genetic transposition in this plant species

Hint: It's a vegetable

Corn/Maize

Accomplished Women

100

First American woman in space 

Sally Ride

200

The only woman to win 2 Nobel Prizes. Both are for science

Marie Curie

300

This female scientist is the world's expert on chimpanzees

Jane Goodall

400

First woman in space (non-us)

Molly Vladimirovna Tereshkova

RPI Trivia

100

Who is the current President of RPI?

Martin A. Schimdt

200

Full name of the JEC

J. Erik Jonsson Engineering Center

300

Year RPI became co-ed

1942

400

Which building used to be the old Union building

Lally

General Science

100

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” is an example of one of these

Newtons Laws

200

What white blood cells do

Protect you against illness and disease

300

Set of imaginary numbers

Complex

400

Number of elements on the period table

118

Pop Culture Science

100

Name the movie

Reference: "The limit does not exist"

Mean Girls

200

Name the movie

Reference: "Theory can only take you so far"

Oppenheimer

300

A movie about using "molecular cloning" to clone dinosaurs by extracting pre-historic blood from mosquitoes fossilized in amber

Jurassic Park

400

Name the movie.

Reference: "What? Like it's hard?

Legally Blonde