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1a Trivia
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100

Price of an Indianda Resident annual fishing license

What is $23?

100

300 Watts Maximum

What is the maximum permissable wattage of a halogen torchiere lamp used in a residence hall under ResLife's Housing Policies for Undergraduate Residential Communities?

100

Allen Pinkerton

Who was the private detective responsible for the security of Lincoln and head of the Union Intelligence Service in the first 2 years of the Civil War?
100

"A new TV stand"

What was the organ joking called upon its arrival?

100

The legend lives on from the Chippawa on down ...

What are the opening lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

200

Melting ice from the Wisconson Glacier

What caused the kettle hole lakes of northern Indiana?

200

Combination Engineering warehouse and publishing building

What is Ave Maria Press?

200

the reason for the awarding of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

What is Theodore Roosevelts negotiation of the Portsmouth Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War?

200

Mr Exit Sign PR

Pedro

200

Morton Thiokol

Who were the contractors responsible for the contstruction of the failed Solid Rocket Boosters that caused the January 28, 1986 Challenger Disaster?

300

Local bog owned by Shirley Heinze Land Trust

What is Lydic Bog?

300

ND to SMC, Apr 19, 1899

What is the wireless first wireless transmission in North America, sent by Professor Jerome Green from ND to SMC via a radio antenna hung from the basilica steeple?

300

he was mobbed at the Áras an Uachtaráin

What near disaster occurred on JFKs trip to Ireland in June 1963?

300

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron on VHS

What was found in the 1a ceiling

300

Julie Helgeson and Michele Koons mauled and partially eaten in Glacier National Park

What was the result of The Night of the Grizzlies, in which the first 2 ever recorded fatal bear attacks in the parks history occurred within 4 hours of each other on Aug. 13, 1967?

400

"The Everglades of the North"

What is Grand Kankakee Marsh, a 500,000 acre network of wetland habitats, including swamps, marshes, and shallow lakes covering much of northern Indiana that was drained over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

400

ND Faculty at Hiroshima

Who was Bernard Waldman, ND professor and later Dean of the College of Science who was the Camera Operator on the obervation aircraft for the bombing of Hiroshima?

400

proceedure performed on the corpse of Leon Czolgosz

What is an autopsy and dissolution in sufuric acid?

400

Studying birds in the Amazon

Where did Connor of 115 go?

400

the deadliest industrial accident in Washington State history since 1930

What was the May 26, 2026 Nippon Dynawave paper mill chemical tank collapse in Longview, WA, which killed 11 workers?

500
opening day of IN DNR Forestry tree seedling ordering season

What is the first business day of October, 2026 ?

500

South Bend dam of the St. Joseph River

What is the location of a 2.5 MW hydroelectric power station providing 11% of power for ND Main Campus?

500

Naval commander who mocked U.S. Grant for running away from an armed naval mine when it made a funny noise

Who is Commodore Foote?

500

The catfisher gets catfished

What was the name of Sean Donelly's masterful prank on Dan Ricotta?

500


What is a critical mass of weapons-grade plutonium assembled by a technician at Los Alamos National Laboratory, resulting in a near-miss criticality incident and the mass resignation of Los Alamos nuclear safety engineers to protest the lax safety culture of the lab?

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