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What the amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive isotope to decay is called
What is Half-Life?
What is the name of the first chess playing computer to win a match against a reigning world chess champion under regular time controls?
Hint: it was built by IBM
What is Deep Blue?
Is infinity a real number?
What is NO?
Woman who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her contribution to the understanding of radiation
Who is Marie Curie?
The active ingredient in over-the counter painkillers such as Advil
What is Ibuprofen?
The chemical formula for sodium bicarbonate
This woman invented signal hopping, a precursor to wi-fi, GPS, and Bluetooth
Who is Hedy Lamar?
The only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning
What is FOUR?
What is: An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The first woman to go to space
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
The inventor of the first compiler
Who is Grace Hopper?
The country where negative numbers were first used
What is China?
Where does sound travel fastest: air, water, or solids?
What is solids?
The only woman to have received, by herself (unshared), a Nobel Prize for medicine?
Who is Barbara McClintock?
This woman is CEO of a leading personal genomics company
Who is Anne Wojcicki?
Who is Radia Perlman?
The shape that can enclose the most area for the least perimeter
What is a circle?
What is a subatomic particle with the same mass as an electron and a numerically equal but positive charge called?
What is a Positron?
Advanced our knowledge of CRISPR (a gene editing tool) greatly and won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Who is Jennifer Doudna?
This woman developed signal flares still used by the U.S. Navy
Who is Martha Coston?
Founder of "Girls Who Code"
The first girl on the Iranian Mathematical Olympics team
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
How do sound waves work?
What is: Sound is produced when an object vibrates, creating a pressure wave. This pressure wave causes particles in the surrounding medium (air, water, or solid) to have vibrational motion. As the particles vibrate, they move nearby particles, transmitting the sound further through the medium.
Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive what?
What is sweating?