Movies/TV Shows
This movie franchise has a total of 9 movies from the late 1970s til 2019 and the famous movie line: "May the force be with you."
What is Star Wars?
Rutgers famously has campuses split across these two different towns separated by the Raritan River
What is New Brunswick and Piscataway?
This physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields
Who is Marie Curie?
This invention sprays colorful, stringy foam from a can
These fruit snacks have a liquid-filled center that bursts when you bite into them
What are Gushers?
Though released after, this show actually acts as a prequel to the famous sitcom the Big Bang Theory
What is Young Sheldon?
This College Avenue grease truck storefront still serves hungry students at 2:00 AM
What is RU Hungry?
What significant contribution did Ada Lovelace make in the 1840s regarding Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine?
She published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, earning her the title of the first computer programmer
This toy was accidentally invented when a naval engineer watched a spring fall off a shelf and “walk”
What is a Slinky?
These crackers are the “snack that smiles back”
In Lion King, this is the actual meaning of the commonly used phrase "Hakuna Matata"
Rutgers students traditionally do this to the statue of Willie the Silent on the Voorhees Mall for good luck before exams
This was the first woman to lead an armed assault? Hint: she was also a scout/spy for the Union Army!
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This toy’s original name was the “Magic Screen”, and it allows you to draw without a paper or pencil
What is an Etch-a-Sketch?
“It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy” is the famous catchphrase of this snack’s cheetah mascot
In the TV Show Modern Family, Cameron & Mitchell adopt their daughter Lily from this country
What is Vietnam?
Rutgers is universally recognized as the "Birthplace of College Football". Rutgers played and beat this university in its very first game on November 6, 1869
What crucial piece of experimental data did chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin produce that proved vital in determining the structure of DNA?
Photograph 51 provided the critical clues about the helical shape and dimensions of DNA that Watson and Crick utilized
This invention was originally intended to be a textured wallpaper, but is now used to protect packages
What is bubble wrap?
Invented in 1967, this snack is represented by a mascot whose first name is Julius and has an iconic mustache
What is Pringles?
This recently released film is an animated adaptation of which famous Dr. Seuss Book
What is The Cat in the Hat?
The name of the first African American graduate of Rutgers, who went on to graduate from Columbia Law School, passed the New York Bar in 1896, and later worked as an assistant district attorney and assistant corporation counsel in New York City. The name of the second African American graduate of Rutgers, who was the first Black football player, class valedictorian, and a celebrated singer, actor, and global civil rights activist
Who is James Dickson Carr and Paul Robeson?
In 1856, three years before John Tyndall published his famous research on the greenhouse effect, which American scientist and women's rights activist discovered that carbon dioxide and water vapor trap solar heat, effectively predicting climate change?
Eunice Newton Foote
This invention is the “pottery that grows”
What is a Chia Pet?
This candy was originally invented to keep chocolate from melting in soldiers’ hands during the Spanish Civil War
What are M&M's?