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100

What year was MSU founded

1855

100

A class gift from 1873, this campus “billboard” gets repainted constantly by students.


The Rock

100

The Engineering Building connects directly to which other major engineering facility via skywalks and interior hallways?

Anthony Hall

100

Solve: 2x + 5 = 11

x=3

200

What was MSU's previous Mascot

Aggie/ Fighting Farmer

200

One of the best-known dorm hauntings involves a portrait whose eyes “follow you,” plus reports of a piano playing on its own-inside this residence hall.

Mary Mayo Hall

200

what is the full name of the engineering LLC 

Cornerstone Residential Experience

200

What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?

Nitrogen

300

How many flavors does MSU's Dairy Store have?

13

300

Each fall before the rivalry game, students organize round-the-clock shifts to protect the campus Spartan statue from being “kidnapped.”

The Sparty Watch

300

MSU’s College of Engineering offers how many different undergraduate degree programs

11

300

If a right triangle has legs of length 9 and 12, what is the hypotenuse

15

400

What is the seating capacity of Spartan Stadium

75,005

400

Campus legend says you aren’t “official” until you get kissed at midnight in the shadows of ____________?

Beaumont Tower

400

What is the address of the MSU Engineering Building

428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824

400

In physics, what is the “Three-Body Problem”?

Calculating gravity between three celestial bodies

500

What is the annual operating budget of Michigan State University (2025-26)

3.69 billion

500

The first official costumed version of Sparty debuted in 1955 as a papier-mâché head made by members of this fraternity.

Theta Xi

500

What year was the MSU College of Engineering founded

1907

500

What element has the chemical symbol “W”?

Tungsten

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