| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What element are diamonds and graphite derived from? | Carbon | 100%
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| How many valence electrons does an alkaline earth metal have? | 2 | 86%
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| How much force in Newtons is required to accelerate a 1,000 kg car at a rate of 3 meters per second squared? | 3000 | 86%
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| Approximately what percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of nitrogen? | 78 | 86%
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| The world's most popular programming language is ___. | Python | 86%
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| How is 13 written in binary (hint: the first four numbers in binary are 0, 1, 10 and 11)? | 1101 | 71%
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| The acceleration due to gravity on Earth is about ___ meters per second squared. | 9.81 | 71%
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| What organelle in a plant cell is the primary site of photosynthesis? | Chloroplast | 71%
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| Einstein's famous equation E=MC^2 shows how a tiny amount of mass can create a massive amount of what? | Energy | 71%
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| The highest magnitude that's ever been recorded on this base 10 logarithmic scale is a 9.5 (courtesy of a Chilean earthquake). | Richter | 71%
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| How many bits are in 3 bytes (hint: the conversion factor between a bit and a byte can be represented as 2^x where x is an integer)? | 24 | 57%
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| Thanks to efforts to curb the use of ___, the Ozone layer is now repairing itself. | Chlorofluorocarbons | 57%
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| Which Swedish biologist's classification system has ranks such as "Genus" and "Class"? | Linnaeus | 57%
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| What scale is used to measure the relative scratch resistance of minerals? | Mohs | 57%
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| What type of intermolecular force is used to hold water molecules together? | Hydrogen Bonding | 43%
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| What is the process whereby the ocean is becoming more concentrated with H+ ions? | Ocean Acidification | 29%
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| Whose principle of classical mechanics describes a system's motion using energy? | Lagrange | 14%
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| Nuclei with "___ numbers" (ex. 20 and 82) of nucleons are exceptionally stable. | Magic | 14%
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| What 9-level scale is used to measure the level of light pollution in an area? | Bortle | 0%
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| The Carrington Event of 1859 was the largest ___ ___ in recorded history. | Solar Storm | 0%
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