University of Minnesota
Name 3 Residence Halls at the UMN Twin Cities. (Not apartments!)
What is Centennial, Territorial, Frontier, Pioneer, Middlebrook, Comstock, Sanford, or Bailey?
Name the 1 credit course all CSE students must take.
What is CSE 1001 First Year Experience?
This precious metal has the chemical symbol "Au."
What is gold?
People traditionally go door-to-door asking for candy using this phrase.
What is "trick or treat"?
This animal is known as man's best friend.
What is a dog?
Name the five University of Minnesota campuses.
What are Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester, and Twin Cities?
Name eight of the twenty majors in CSE.
What is Aerospace engineering and mechanics, Astrophysics, Biomedical engineering, Bioproducts and biosystems engineering, Chemical engineering, Chemistry, Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Computer science, Data science, Earth sciences, Electrical engineering, Environmental engineering, Environmental geosciences, Geoengineering, Industrial and systems engineering, Materials science and engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical engineering, Physics.
The name of the process by which plants convert sunlight into food.
What is photosynthesis?
This famous monster, created by Mary Shelley, is often mistakenly called by the name of his creator.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
The instrument that Sherlock Holmes famously plays.
What is the violin?
What must students do to the Goldy statue outside Coffman Memorial Union in order to make a wish?
Why must you rub his teeth?
This University of Minnesota lab is named after the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River.
What is the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory?
This is the most abundant gas in the Earth's crust.
What is oxygen?
This famous movie features a witch named Winifred Sanderson and her two sisters.
What is "Hocus Pocus"?
What is the world's longest river?
What is the Nile?
Although Goldy is typically dubbed a gopher, what animal is our mascot actually modeled after?
What is a 13-lined ground squirrel?
The U of M’s CSE hosts a chapter of this national honor society that recognizes academic excellence in engineering.
What is Tau Beta Pi?
This scientific law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This is the most popular candy given out on Halloween in the United States.
What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
The only U.S. state with a one-syllable name.
What is Maine?
What year was the University of Minnesota founded?
What is 1851?
This famous computing pioneer, known as the "father of supercomputing," studied at the University of Minnesota.
Who is Seymour Cray?
You know what to do........
d/dx[(x/5)*(ln(2/x))]
What is (1/5)[ln(2/x) - 1]?
The word "witch" comes from the Old English "wicce," which means this.
What is "wise woman"?
This famous ancient city was buried under volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?