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100

Random fluctuations that obscure or do not contain meaningful data or other information.

What is noise?

100

The two avenues enclosing the main Morningside campus.

What are Broadway and Amsterdam?

100

Building that changes color lights the night of Columbia graduation

What is the Empire State Building?

100

Character who first wants to marry Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Who is Gaston?

100

The precinct captain in Brooklyn 99

Who is Raymond Holt?

200

Imaging modality that uses acoustic waves to build an image

What is an ultrasound? (Also accepted: what is an echocardiogram?)

200

Columbia's original name, before the American Revolution

What is King's College?

200

Number of blocks Central Park spans vertically (+/- 2 margin of error allowed)

What is 51?

200

Disney movie about the Day of the Dead

What is Coco?

200

Three Spiderman actors

Who are Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire?

300

The theoretical minimum sampling frequency, equal to double the maximum frequency component.

What is the Nyquist frequency?

300

Famous bagel shop at 108th St with notoriously long lines

What is Absolute Bagels?

300

What Tribeca stands for

What is "Triangle below Canal St."?

300

Names of at least 4 of the 7 dwarves in Snow White

Who are Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Grumpy and Dopy?

300

Most sold album of all time

What is Michael Jackson's Thriller?

400

Ventricle at the end of contraction

What is systole?

400

Name a movie that was shot at Columbia

Answers vary, may include:

Marathon Man (1976), Altered States (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Malcolm X (1992), Spider-Man (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Still Alice (2014), The Post (2017)

Or verify answers through internet search :)

400

Country built the wall that "Wall Street" is named after?

What is the Netherlands?

400

The names of the warthog and meerkat companion to Simba in the Lion King

Who are Pumba and Timon?

400

Joe Biden's age (+/-1)

What is 79?

500

A motor protein that walks along microtubules carrying cargo

What is kinesin?

500

Columbia's motto (latin or english translation)

What is "In Lumine Tuo Videbimis Lumen", or In Thy light we shall see light.

500

Number of Presidents from (born in) New York City

What is 2?

500

In Frozen, the number of brothers Hans has

What is 12?

500

The suit and tech designer in the Incredibles

Who is Edna Mode?

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