Chemistry at UW
What is Letters of Science?
The chemical that air is primarily made of.
Nitrogen (78%)
Year was UW-Madison Founded.
What is 1848?
Babcock Dairy's current ice cream flavor for Chancellor Mnookin.
What is Mnookie Dough?
City that hosted the 2026 Winter Olympics.
What is Milan, Italy?
Year in which the North Tower opened for classes.
When was Fall 2022?
(It's still not done...)
This element was originally named phlogiston, meaning the element of fire.
What is oxygen?
Camp Randall served as a training site for this war.
What is the Civil War?
Year that the Memorial Union pier collapsed.
When was 2024?
Number of current UW-Madison students participating in the 2026 Olympics.
What is four?
All are on the women's hockey team.
The number of dollars (in millions) invested in research at UW-Madison in the chemistry department.
Boiling point of water at the peak of Mount Everest (within 5 degrees).
What is 70 degrees Celsius?
(65-75)
The first building was built on the UW-Madison campus.
What is the North Hall?
Last UW-Madison team to win an NCAA title.
The longest time in the air ever ski jumping.
How long is 10 seconds?
UW-Madison Chemistry Department ranking in 2025, according to U.S. World and News Report.
What is fourteenth (14th)?
This street drug is an enantiomer of a nasal decongestant.
What is methamphetamine?
What phrase, meaning to separate the wheat from the chaff, is engraved on a plaque outside Bascom Hall?
Sifting and Winnowing
New name for the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences.
What is the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence?
The newest sport featured in the 2026 Olympics (only need one).
What is Dual Mogals or Ski Mountaineering (Skimo)?
Number of Nobel Prizes that have been awarded to current or former UW-Madison faculty and alumni.
What is seventeen (17)?
(Named after silver)
Year that the first Mifflin Street Block party took place.
When was 1969?
Commencement speaker at UW-Madison's Winter 2022 undergraduate graduation.
Who is Charlie Berens?
The number of winter Olympics held in the current era.
What is twenty-five (25).