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100

What year was K-State founded?

What is 1863?

100

What year was the American Nuclear Society (ANS) established?

What is 1954?

100

Who won two Nobel Prizes for their work in radioactivity research and nuclear medicine?

Who is Marie Curie?

100

What instrument does ANS President Alex Cavanaugh play?

What is the tenor saxophone?

100

What radioactive element used to be used in glassware and dishes?

What is uranium?

200

K-State was the first operational [blank] of its kind. 

What is a land grant university?

200

Nuclear engineering at K-State is under the mechanical engineering department, but what department was it originally under?

What is Chemical Engineering?

200

What is the name of the first nuclear reactor?

What is Chicago Pile 1?

200

What kind of sibling does Lindsey have that shares a birthday with her?

What is an identical twin?

200

What movie monster acts a metaphor for the destructive power of nuclear weapons?

What is Godzilla?

300

What song was the only surviving piece of music from the Nichols Hall fire in 1968, and is still performed today?

What is Wabash Cannonball?

300

What type of research reactor does K-State have?

What is TRIGA Mark II?

300

What article of clothing/jewelry contained radium in it?

What is a watch?

300

What character from the Last Airbender is Ashleigh’s dog name after?

Who is Appa?

300

What bar in Aggieville was once a speakeasy?

What is Auntie Mae's?

400

From 1922 to 1978, live bobcats were used to serve as the mascot. What was the name of these mascots?

What is Touchdown?

400

What month and year was the KSU reactor first brought to power?

What is October 1962?

400

What element was radioactivity first scientifically observed in?

What is uranium?

400

What dorm hall is Landon an RA for?

What is Wefald Hall?

400

In the 1950s, the US Air Force proposed we detonate a nuke on [blank].

What is the Moon?

500

K-State was the last university what influential figure spoke at 2 months before his assassination in 1968?

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

500

Who is Ward Hall named after, and what was his occupation?

Who is Henry T. Ward, department head of Chemical Engineering?

500

What defense contractor created the first nuclear powered submarine?

What is General Dynamics Electric Boat?

500

What Olympic event did Paulina qualify for?

What is horseback riding?

500

What power plant almost had a complete rupture of the reactor pressure vessel due to corrosion?

What is Davis-Besse nuclear power plant?

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