Science and Mathematics

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Ancient instrument serving as a handheld model of the universe

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What is an astrolabe?

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Instrument used for measuring slope, elevation, or depression of an object with respect to gravity

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What is a clinometer?

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In 2012, scientist Adam Garde in Copenhagen discovered the world’s oldest meteorite impact site on this island, dated at 3 billion years old

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What is Greenland?

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A disease that causes nerve cells (neurons) in the brain to gradually break down or die

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What is Parkinson’s?

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The body of this 9,000-year-old Native American was accidently discovered in Washington by two spectators at a hydroplane race

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Who is Kennewick Man?

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Type of joint that allows for a circling movement, found in the thumb, thorax, middle ear, and the heel

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What is a saddle joint?

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Tissue that connects bone to bone

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What is ligament?

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Tissue that connects muscle to bone

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What is tendon?

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Long bone in the arm that runs from shoulder to elbow

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What is the humerus?

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Mathematician whose area of study is geometry

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What is a geometer?

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William Kingdon Clifford called him “the Copernicus of Geometry”

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Who is Nikolai Lobachevsky?

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Russian mathematician born December 1792 known for founding this type of geometry

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What is non-Euclidean?

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Ancient Greek mathematician considered “the father of geometry”

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Who is Euclid?

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1796 creator of the modern smallpox vaccine

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Who is Edward Jenner?

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At 2.5 million light years away, it’s the galaxy nearest to the milky way, named after the wife of Perseus

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What is Andromeda?

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3 categories of galaxies according to visual morphology

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What is elliptical, irregular, and spiral?

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Brightest star in Taurus constellation

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What is aldebaran?

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Outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere

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What is the corona?

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Italian inventor and engineer credited as the inventor of the radio

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Who is Guglielmo Marconi?

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Italian inventor and engineer credited as the inventor of the radio

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Who is Guglielmo Marconi?

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“The Father of Open Heart Surgery”

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Who is C. Walton Lillehei?

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Pioneer of plastic surgery, around 600 BC

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Who is Sushruta?

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Successful American surgeon who was addicted to cocaine and morphine throughout his professional life, but managed to help found Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Mastectomy

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Who is WIlliam Steward Halsted?

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Procedure used to improve vision, essentially outdated today by LASIK (laser eye surgery), PRK (photorefractive keratectomy) and LASEK

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What is radial keratotomy?

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Fusion reactor which is used most often to turn grapes into raisins

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What is the sun?

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3 types of radiation, or radioactive decay, also the first three greek letters

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What are alpha, beta, and gamma?

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Particles that make up most of the atom’s mass along with protons

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What are neutrons?

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This common household appliance has a magnetron, a tube whose emissions vibrate molecules

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What is a microwave?

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Italian-born American that achieved fission in 1934 and didn’t know it

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Who is Enrico Fermi?