This is a Head-to-Head event. A winner is recognized for each 30
minute session, also receiving points toward their overall score.
Description: 4 members of the team will compete in physical events and
answer questions about scientists. They will work individually and as a
team.
Number of Participants: 4
The Competition:
1. There will be 4 physical events and complete and 4 questions to
answer about famous scientists. A list of scientists is included. The 4
events will include such things as (but no limited to):
o Jump rope
o Basketball shooting
o Soccer ball dribbling
o Bean bag toss
o Tire run
o Throwing at a target
2. The clock will start when the first team member starts the first
physical event. Each team member will complete one physical event and
then answer a question about a scientist. If the question is answered
incorrectly, another question will be given until one is answered
correctly. The participant can pass after the question is read if
he/she doesn’t know the answer.
3. After the participant answers a question correctly, he/she
will pass the baton onto the next teammate. This teammate will then
complete the next physical activity and answer a question correctly.
4. This will continue until all four team members have completed their activity and answered a question correctly.
5. Then, all 4 team members will complete a joint physical
activity together and answer a question together. The clock will stop
when the group question is answered correctly.
Scoring:
The team with the shortest amount of time wins.
Tie Breaker (if needed): Team with fewest number of incorrect answers to questions wins.
Scientists to study for Pentathlon: (questions will be in multiple choice format)
Antonelli, Kay
Archimedes
Aristarchus
Armstrong, Neil
Audubon, J J
Barton, Clara
Berezelius, J
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Brahe, Tycho
Cannon, Annie
Carver, George W
Colombo, Matteo
Copernicus, N
Cori, Gerty
Curie, Marie
Cuvier, Georges
Darwin, Charles
Democritus
Diesel, Rudolph
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert A
Eratosthenes
Euclid
Fermi, Enrico
Fulton, Robert
Gagarin, Yuri
Glenn, John
Goddard, Robert
Goodall, Jane
Goodyear, Charles
Hall, Charles
Hawking, Stephen
Hubble, Edwin
Huygens, Christian
Kepler, Johannes
Malpighi, Marcello
Marconi, Guglielmo
Mayer, Maria G
Mendel, Gregor
Mendeleev, Dmitri
Morse, Samuel F B
Moyer, Andrew J
Newton, Isaac
Nightingale, Florence
Pasteur, Louis
Ride, Sally
Roentgen, Wilhelm
Salk, Jonas
Schwabe, Heinrich
Sikorsky, Igor
Steinmetz, Charles
Tereshkova, Valentina
Thompson, J
Van Leewenhoek, A
Volta, A
Von Humbolt, A
Westinghouse, George
Whitney, Eli
Wong-Staal, Flossie
Wright, Orville & Wilbur
Watt, James
