Pi Day
St. Patrick's Day
Daylight Savings Time
Spring
Wildcard
100

Pi is a letter of this alphabet.

What is Greek?

100

This yeasty, fermented alcoholic beverage is commonly consumed on St. Patrick's Day.

What is beer?

100

Daylight Savings Time in the United States typically begins in early March and ends in this month.

What is November?

100

Spring is one of these, a result of Earth being tilted along its rotational axis.

What is a season?

100

A wildcard is the official name for a student ID at this university, located just outside of Chicago.

What is Northwestern University?

200

This substance, used to make masa and polenta, is the main component of the filling in chess pie.

What is cornmeal?

200

The symbol of St. Patrick's Day is this, a special type of clover.

What is a shamrock?

200

This state does not observe Daylight Savings Time. (there are two, just name one)

What is Hawaii or Arizona? (either answer is acceptable)
200

Because of both astrological signs and the change to milder spring weather, the month of March is said to go "in like a lion, out like a this."

What is a lamb?

200

A contingent of CCSers won this Residential College Board event yesterday.

What is RCB Quiz Bowl?

300

Pi is obtained by finding the ratio between these two measurements on a circle. (must name both to receive points)

What are diameter/radius and circumference?

300

A pot of gold is said to be found at the end of a rainbow, which has these colors.

What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet?

300

The phrase "spring forward, fall back" is one of these, a tool used to remember important facts.

What is a mnemonic device?

300

This scientist's law states that for a linearly elastic spring, the force applied to the spring is proportional to the spring's displacement.

Who is Hooke?

300

This algorithm is used to find single-source shortest paths of graphs by relaxing the edges of the graph in an order based on edge weight.

What is Dijkstra's algorithm?

400

This college famously releases regular application decisions every year on Pi Day.

What is Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT?

400

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day every year, the city of Chicago does this to the Chicago River.

What is dyeing it green?

400

Port Arthur, the first city in the world to enact a formalized Daylight Savings Time policy, is in this Canadian province, home to the Golden Horseshoe.

What is Ontario?

400

This hot spring in Iceland gets its namesake color from the high amount of silica suspended in its water.

What is the Blue Lagoon?

400

Used by Northwestern students to see which professors to avoid, CTEC is an acronym that stands for this phrase.

What is Course and Teacher Evaluation Council?

500

Sigma is to summation as pi is to this mathematical operation.

What is multiplication?

500

St. Patrick's day is only a legal holiday in these two cities (name 1 for full points, name both for double points).

What are Boston, MA and Savannah, GA?

500

When in Daylight Savings Time, Chicago has this offset from UTC (coordinated universal time).

What is UTC-5?

500

Spring Breeze, a sub-game in Kirby Super Star and its remake, is a remake of this original Kirby game for the Game Boy.

What is Kirby's Dream Land?

500

The Stanley Cup tournament bracket has space for this many wildcards per conference.

What is two?

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