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100

The year that UMBC was founded.

What is 1966?

100
The UMBC chapter of AIChE holds their meetings at this time slot.
What is Mondays at free hour?
100
This is the name for the plastic at the ends of shoelaces.
What are aglets?
100
This was the last year that the Baltimore Ravens won the Superbowl.
What is 2013?
100
This is the number of credits needed to complete a traditional chemical engineering track at UMBC.
What is 129 credits?
200
This person has been serving as the president of UMBC since 1992.
Who is Dr. Freeman Hrabowski?
200
This person is the current president of UMBC AIChE.
Who is Aida Berhane?
200
This is the name of the smallest ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
200
Game of Thrones is based off of the novels of this author.
Who is George R.R. Martin?
200
These classes are the gateways required to enter chemical engineering at UMBC.
What are: ENES 101, MATH 152, CHEM 102, and ENCH 215?
300
These are the names of the 6 dorm buildings on the UMBC campus.
What are Harbor, Patapsco, Potomac, Susquehanna, Chesapeake, and Erickson?
300
This is the number of general body meetings you need to attend to be considered a member of AIChE.
What is 2 meetings?
300
These are the names of the 5 Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, and Superior?
300
This is the longest-running cartoon of all time.
What is The Simpsons?
300
This is the material balance equation.
What is Accumulation = Input - output + generation - consumption?
400
This man was the first chancellor of UMBC.
Who is Albin O. Kuhn?
400
This is where the professor who is the AIChE adviser got her Ph.D.
Where is Cornell University?
400
This planet spins in the "wrong" direction compared to the other planets.
What is Venus?
400
This was the first song ever played on MTV.
What is "Video Killed the Radio Star"? (By The Buggles)
400
log(P*) = A - B/ (T+C)
What is the Antoine Equation?
500
This is the length of UMBC's outer-loop.
What is 2.2 miles?
500
In this year, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers was founded.
What is 1908?
500
These 3 countries are the only ones to still use the customary system of measurement.
What are the US, Liberia, and Burma (Myanmar).
500
This is the highest grossing movie of all time.
What is Avatar?
500
This professor here, AKA the fungus guy, is infamous for his dad jokes.
Who is Dr. Mark Marten?
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