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Basic Science Trivia
100

What movie contains the calc reference "The limit does not exist" ?

Mean Girls!

100

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for this theory

radioactivity 

100

COO of Facebook and author of Lean In...

Sheryl Sandberg

100

The set of imaginary numbers

COMPLEX
100

the longest living cell in humans comes from this part of the body

brain

200

Who was the first American woman in space?

Sally Ride

200

This scientist is the world expert on chimpanzees...

Jane Goodall


200

She is the only woman in history to win two Noble Prizes (both in size). OG woman in STEM...

Marie Curie

200

The force on a rotating or orbiting body in the direction of the center of rotation

centripetal force

200

there are this many bones in an adult skeleton

206

300

What woman, known mostly as a movie star of the 1930's and 40's, also invented a remote-controlled communications system for the US military?

Hedy Lamarr. Her frequency hopping theory is critical to today's bluetooth and wifi.

300

Rosalind Franklin used this method to uncover the structure of DNA...

X-Ray diffraction
300

She is a surgeon who served as an army medic during the Civil War (only female to receive the Medal of Honor)...

Mary Edwards Walker

300

a celestial body moving around the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun

comet

300

the only metal that's liquid at room temp.

mercury 

400

What percentage of scientific researchers worldwide are female?


30%

400
Clara Barton was a famous Civil War nurse who founded this medical organization...

Red Cross

400

She made huge contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Described as the 'most important woman in the history of mathematics'. 

Emmy Noether

400

a constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied

coefficient 

400

the amount of time it takes for the light to travel from the sun to earth

8 mins and 19 seconds

500

Between 1901 and 2020, the Nobel Prizes in scientific fields were awarded 387 times. Out of the 387 recipients, how many were women?

25

500

Barbra McClintock discovered genetic transposition in this plant species...

corn/maize 

500
She studied and taught complex geometries at Stanford; only woman in history to receive a Fields Medal (most prestigious mathematics honor).

Maryam Mirzakhani

500

the transmission of heat in a fluid or gas by the circulation of currents

convection 

500

name 1 of the 2 letters that don't appear in the periodic table of elements 

J and Q