When Was This?
What famous prison did three inmates escape from in 1962, leading to one of the most famous unsolved escape mysteries in U.S. history?
What is Alcatraz?
This planet has a day longer than its year: one rotation takes longer than one orbit around the Sun.
What is Venus?
In tennis, this word represents a score of zero.
What is love?
In The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta represent this district.
What is District 12?
Pitt's 42-story Gothic Revival landmark is better known to students by this nickname.
What is Cathy?
The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of what volcano in 79 CE?
What is Mount Vesuvius
This creature is the official national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
How many Super Bowls have the Philadelphia Eagles won?
How many is 2.
In Mean Girls, Aaron Samuels asks Cady what day it is on this now-iconic date.
What is October 3rd?
Pitt was founded under this original name.
bonus points if you can guess the year
What is Pittsburgh Academy?
When is 1787
During the Great Emu War of 1932, soldiers in this country were sent to fight thousands of crop-destroying emus.
What is Australia?
Unlike most mammals, this animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can be difficult to distinguish.
What is a koala?
Michael Phelps holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any athlete, with this many.
What is 28?
In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly is editor-in-chief of this fictional fashion magazine
What is Runway?
Pitt's traditional football rivalry with West Virginia is known by this name.
What is the Backyard Brawl?
In 1919, a storage tank burst and sent a deadly wave of this sticky substance through Boston.
What is molasses?
This common kitchen ingredient can remain edible for thousands of years when properly sealed, largely because of its low moisture and acidic environment.
What is honey?
This country defeated France in the final to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
What is Argentina?
In The Truman Show, Truman unknowingly spends his life in this fictional town.
What is Seahaven?
This famous Pitt-developed vaccine helped combat one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century.
What is the polio vaccine?
What European country accidentally invaded neighboring Liechtenstein in 2007 when about 170 soldiers crossed the border during a training exercise?
what is Switzerland
What common fruit floats in water because roughly 25% of its volume is air?
What is an apple
This NBA team drafted Kobe Bryant in 1996 before immediately trading him to the Lakers
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
This 1994 film features the characters Vincent Vega, Jules Winnfield, and Mia Wallace.
What is Pulp Fiction?
Before moving to the Oakland neighborhood, Pitt's campus was primarily located in this Pittsburgh neighborhood.
What is the North Side?