We invite you to participate in this quarter’s Trivia Challenge.
To enter, review the questions below and look out for the answers in the corresponding Poster articles.
Then, email your responses to each question, in order, to Poster@mail.nih.gov. We will post the correct answers, as well as the winner(s), with the next set of trivia questions.
Winners of this quarterly challenge will earn bragging rights, and the first person to respond to all questions correctly will receive a virtual shoutout with the next batch of questions.
Trivia Questions
- What’s one type of cellular component contained in extracellular vesicles (EVs)?
- What was one of the first offices established at Fort Detrick in 1943?
- What acts as a “telescope and stand” to probe cells for detecting glycans?
- For how long do Summer Internship Program students train at NIH?
- How many drug-like compounds are predicted to exist?
Featured Articles
You’ll find the answers to the June 2026 Poster Trivia Challenge in:
SLICE Program Makes Computational Drug Discovery Easier and Faster
Echoes from the Past: Life and Times of a Scientific Library, Part 1
Poster Quick Takes: New Tool Lets Scientists Easily Profile Difficult Glycans
Summer Internship Program Returns this Year, Continuing a Tradition of Success
Poster Quick Takes: Cells Use Particles to Trash Defective RNA
Last Quarter's Winner
The answers to the last Poster Trivia Challenge are:
- 6
- 35 minutes
- Two types of mouse cancer cells and one human colorectal cancer cell line
- About 3 weeks
- Changing the temperature up by 10-20 degrees (from –80°C to –60-70°C)
The first person to respond correctly to all trivia questions and winner of the March 2026 Poster Trivia Challenge is Barbra Larkin, a manager in the Vaccine Clinical Materials Program at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Congrats, Barbra!
And thank you to everyone who played.