University of Maryland, College Park, took home the top prize this year in the 2015 ASC ChemE Jeopardy. Second and third places went to University of Iowa and Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively.
Second place winners, University of Iowa
Third place winners, Georgia Tech
The teams competing were:
- North Central - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Northeast - University of Rhode Island
- Southern - Georgia Institute of Technology
- MidAmerica - University of Iowa
- MidAtlantic - University of Maryland, College Park
- Southwest - University of Texas, Austin
- Western - San Jose State University
- Rocky Mountain - Arizona State University
- Pacific Northwest - Oregon State University
To determine which teams would compete in the final round for the title of 2015 ChemE Jeopardy champion, all competing teams battled it out in three separate groups:
- University of Maryland – College Park (Mid-Atlantic Region), Oregon State University (Pacific Northwest Region), and San Jose State University (Western Region)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (Southern Region), University of Rhode Island (Northeast Region), and University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (North Central Region)
- University of Texas - Austin (Southwest Region), Arizona State University (Rocky Mountain Region), and University of Iowa (Mid-America Region)
Good Times!
Categories, values, clues, and responses
Here are some of the questions teams had to answer.
Category: Single Jeopardy/*Jeopardy Science
Value: $400
Clue: The word for this disease comes from the same Latin root as “rage.”
Correct Response: What is rabies?
Category: Single Jeopardy/Dimensionless Groups
Value: $500
Clue: This dimensionless number is the ratio between inertial and gravitational forces, and is used to determine the resistance of an object moving through a fluid.
Correct Response: What is the Fround (Fr) number?
Category: Double Jeopardy/Chemical Process Safety
Value: $400
Clue: This chemical was released in large quantities and caused 1000’s of deaths on December 3, 1984 in Bhopal, India.
Correct Response: What is methyl isocyanate (MIC)?
Category: Double Jeopardy/Biochemical Engineering
Value: $1000
Clue: This is the most commonly used mammalian cell line in the commercial production of recombinant proteins.
Correct Response: What are Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells?
*Science question that was given on the TV show
The winning question
Could you have gotten the final question that allowed the University of Maryland team to capture the win?
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