Question 1

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Accepted Answer

Au

Question 2

Which planet has the most moons currently confirmed in our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Question 3

What is the most abundant element in Earth's crust by mass?

Accepted Answer

Oxygen

Question 4

What is the powerhouse of the cell?

Accepted Answer

Mitochondrion

Question 5

What type of energy does a wind turbine convert into electrical energy?

Accepted Answer

Kinetic energy

Question 6

Approximately what percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen?

Accepted Answer

78%

Question 7

What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?

Accepted Answer

Ohm

Question 8

Which subatomic particle has a negative electric charge?

Accepted Answer

Electron

Question 9

What does a higher pH value indicate?

Accepted Answer

A more basic solution

Question 10

What is the primary purpose of a heat sink in electronic devices?

Accepted Answer

To remove and dissipate heat

Question 11

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 12

Which mathematician calculated trajectories for NASA's early spaceflights and was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures?

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson

Question 13

Which scientist's X-ray diffraction work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA? -

Accepted Answer

Rosalind Franklin

Question 14

Who was the first American woman to travel into space?

Accepted Answer

Sally Ride

Question 15

What causes ocean tides primarily?

Accepted Answer

The Moon's gravitational pull

Question 16

Which layer of Earth's atmosphere contains most of the ozone layer?

Accepted Answer

Stratosphere

Question 17

Which marine animal has three hearts?

Accepted Answer

Octopus

Question 18

Which type of electromagnetic radiation has the highest frequency?

Accepted Answer

Gamma rays

Question 19

What does a seismometer measure?

Accepted Answer

Earthquake-related ground motion

Question 20

Which scientist is famous for her long-term research on chimpanzees in Tanzania? -

Accepted Answer

Jane Goodall

Women in STEM trivia night

2) Which planet has the most moons currently confirmed in our solar system?

3) What is the most abundant element in Earth's crust by mass?

4) What is the powerhouse of the cell?

5) What type of energy does a wind turbine convert into electrical energy?

6) Approximately what percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen?

7) What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?

8) Which subatomic particle has a negative electric charge?

9) What does a higher pH value indicate?

10) What is the primary purpose of a heat sink in electronic devices?

11) Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

12) Which mathematician calculated trajectories for NASA's early spaceflights and was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures?

13) Which scientist's X-ray diffraction work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA? -

14) Who was the first American woman to travel into space?

15) What causes ocean tides primarily?

16) Which layer of Earth's atmosphere contains most of the ozone layer?

17) Which marine animal has three hearts?

18) Which type of electromagnetic radiation has the highest frequency?

19) What does a seismometer measure?

20) Which scientist is famous for her long-term research on chimpanzees in Tanzania? -