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This man was the number one NFL draft pick in 2011.
Who is Cam Newton?
100
Auburn University was founded in this year as "East Alabama Male College".
What is 1856?
100
This structure, completed during the Great Depression, was the largest of its kind during construction and is still in use today regulating the flow of the Colorado River.
What is The Hoover Dam?
100
The constant speed that a freely falling object eventually reaches when the resistance of the medium through which it is falling prevents further acceleration.
What is terminal velocity?
100
This Disney/Pixar film, featuring a grumpy old man, an energetic scout, talking dog and colorful bird won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year.
What is Up?
200
"I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore, I believe in work, hard work" begins the Auburn Creed, which was written by this man, who was also the first football coach at Auburn.
Who is George Petrie?
200
This architectural detail, found on top of Ramsay Hall, is used as the emblem representing the College of Engineering.
What is a Cupola?
200
This US suspension bridge contains enough cable to circle the Earth three times.
What is The Golden Gate Bridge?
200
The line ""Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble" comes from this Shakespearean play.
What is Macbeth?
200
This "children's" series is by far the best selling book series of all time.
What is the Harry Potter series?
300
This man was the coach of Auburn's first National Championship winning team in 1957.
Who is Ralph "Shug" Jordan?
300
This tool, which was used for building cannons during the Civil War, can be found on display next to Samford Hall.
What is a lathe?
300
Construction of this skyscraper was completed in only one year and 45 days, without requiring overtime.
What is The Empire State Building?
300
This war, fought between the United States and Great Britain, inspired the writing of "The Star Spangled Banner".
What is the War of 1812?
300
This man is the highest-grossing actor of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
What is Samuel L. Jackson?
400
The number of perfect seasons in Auburn's history.
What is seven?
400
This is the tallest building in Lee County.
What is the Haley Center?
400
Flood waters of the Chagres River proved to be a problem even after the successful completion of this project, causing civil engineers to design a dam which created the then largest man made lake.
What is The Panama Canal?
400
A this of a force is a measure of its tendency to cause a body to rotate about a specific point or axis, and is calculated by force multiplied by distance.
What is a moment?
400
This song lost the "Best Rock Song" Grammy nomination to a re-release of "Layla" by Eric Clapton in 1993, a win which later would be named one of the "10 biggest upsets" in Grammy history.
What is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana?
500
Bo Jackson turned down this MLB team after being selected in the second round to instead play football at Auburn (because he had promised his mother he would be the first in the family to go to college.)
What is the New York Yankees?
500
This eagle infamously flew into the suite windows at the Auburn/Clemson game in 2011.
Who is Spirit?
500
This tunnel boring machine is the largest in the world, and was built specifically for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel project in Seattle.
What is Bertha?
500
When water flows through a pipe, it travels fastest at this point in the cross section (bottom, middle, top).
What is the middle?
500
Three movies have tied for the most Academy Award wins (11). Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and this 2003 movie.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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