Music
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STEM
Oh the Places we have been
100
Featuring massive chart-topping hits like "Kill Bill" and "Snooze", this critically acclaimed 2022 studio album solidified this R&B artist's superstardom
What is SOS by SZA?
100
This famous college mascot represents Penn State University and was inspired by a local mountain.
What is The Nittany Lion?
100
Frost creeps in, leaves finish falling, and Thanksgiving looms — this is the month the grad made their big entrance into the world.
What is November?
100
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
100
In our home state, this team won the 2026 Stanley Cup!
What is the Carolina Hurricanes?
200
Unlike its smaller cousin, the trumpet, this brass instrument relies on a telescoping slide rather than valves to alter its pitch.
What is a trombone?
200
This massive, 106,000+ seat venue is home to PSU football and is famous for its deafening "White Out" games.
What is Beaver Stadium?
200
The major Lydia chose focuses on designing medical devices, prosthetics, and other healthcare technologies.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
200
These specialized blank slate cells have the unique ability to develop into many different cell types in the body.
What are stem cells?
200
This city hosts the greatest spectacle in racing: a 500-mile automobile race takes place every year during the Memorial Day weekend in May
What is Indianapolis, Indiana?
300
This powerhouse artist rose to fame with the hip-hop group The Fugees before making history when her 1998 solo debut won five Grammys in one night.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
300
Completed in 1867, this building originally contained the entire university under one roof, including all classrooms, labs, dorms, and administrative offices.
What is Old Main?
300
Soccer is often called "the beautiful game." Lydia first joined in when she was this old.
What is three year old?
300
Named for an English scientist, this foundational law of physics states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
300
This tropical paradise is home to Grand Kadooment Day, the pinnacle of the Crop Over festival, which took place last Monday.
What is Barbados?
400
This musical term describes a chord consisting of three notes—a root, a third, and a fifth—played simultaneously.
What is a triad?
400
World's largest student-run philanthropy organization, found at PSU, that culminates in the famous 46-hour dance marathon held annually to fight pediatric cancer
What is THON?
400
Directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee and loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," this 2013 blockbuster was impossible to escape — and happens to be the grad's favorite Disney animated film.
What is Frozen?
400
This temperature-dependent constant describes the point in a reversible reaction where the forward and reverse reaction rates are completely equal, resulting in no net change in reactant or product concentrations.
What is the equilibrium constant?
400
Covering nearly 164,000 square miles, this Western U.S. state is home to the lowest point in North America—Death Valley—as well as the tallest living trees on Earth.
What is California?
500
Created back in 2018 and released last year, this track marked the grad's debut single — written and produced alongside her older sibling and a producer.
What is "Flew Away"?
500
In 1955, physicist Erwin Müller made history in Penn State's Osmond Lab by becoming the first person to directly visualize one of these basic units of matter.
What is an atom?
500
Meaning "noble strength", Lydia inherits this middle name from her great-grandmother, Mrs. Small.
What is Audrina?
500
In set theory, this term describes the number of elements in a set, a concept that allows mathematicians to compare the sizes of different infinite sets.
What is cardinality?
500
When Tremont Street travelers finally went underground in September 1897, this American city became home to the continent's very first subway system.
What is Boston?