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Chemistry: What is any one of the alternate names for NaCl? sodium chloride
97.2% Physics: Which British scientist came up with the 3 Laws of Motion? Isaac Newton
84.6% Earth Science: What is the most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere? nitrogen
81.8% Chemistry: Name any one of the noble gases that isn't radioactive. helium
81.6% Physics: Which star is the closest to the planet Earth? Sun
80.2% Math: What trigonometric function is the same as sine divided by cosine? tangent
78.5% Chemistry: What is the name for 0 Kelvin or -273.15°C? absolute zero
78.5% Chemistry: What is the non-technical name for dihydrogen monoxide? water
78.3% Physics: Who is the only woman with 2 Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics? Marie Curie
75.7% Biology: What is the movement of water through a selectively-permeable membrane? osmosis
74.7% Biology: Geometrically, what is the specific structure of a DNA molecule called? double helix
73.6% Biology: In the biological classification system, what comes between species and family? genus
68.2% Math: For a pair of points, what does (y2sub>-y1sub>)/(x2sub>-x1sub>), aka rise over run, represent? slope
65.9% Physics: In E=mc2sup>, what is the name of the constant represented by c? speed of light
64.5% Chemistry: Using element symbols, decode this message: sulfur polonium carbon potassium. SPoCK
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Physics: On the electromagnetic spectrum, what type of radiation has the shortest wavelength? gamma rays
59.9% Math: Name the sequence that begins 1,1,2,3,5,8,13... Fibonacci
59.5% Biology: What does a plant cell have surrounding it that an animal cell does not? cell wall
59.3% Physics: What is the SI unit for energy, named after an English physicist? Joule
58.1% Math: What number is 1012sup> in the US but 1018sup> in the UK? trillion
57.6% Physics: What is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator? Large Hadron Collider
49.5% Chemistry: What is the more common term forlog([H3sub>O+sup>]) ? pH
45.9% Biology: What German-speaking friar is famous for discovering the field of genetics? Gregor Mendel
45.9% Chemistry: What process is the opposite of oxidation, where electrons are gained by a species? reduction
45.7% Biology: What are the hairlike sensory|motion structures on the outside of cells called? cilia
44.7% Chemistry: Complete the other half of the Ideal Gas Law: PV =___ nRT
44% Biology: Name either of two bases that completes this set: guanine, cytosine, adenine, ___. thymine / uracil
43.9% Math: What do you call a line segment that connects any two points on a circle? chord
34.6% Math: What is the more common name for a regular hexahedron? cube
34.1% Math: What kind of number has factors that sum to itself like 6 (=1+2+3) or 28(=1+2+4+7+14)? perfect number
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