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100

This is the highest floor accessible to Pitt students in the Cathedral of Learning. 

What is the 36th Floor? 

100

This department houses the Mathematical Biology major.

What is the Department of Mathematics? 

100

The Pittsburgh Steelers have won this many Super Bowls

What is 6?

100

This Youtube personality graduated from Dietrich in 2013 with a degree in Psychology Communications.

Who is Gabbie Hanna? 

100

This vaccine was developed right at the University of Pittsburgh in 1952.

What is the polio vaccine?

200
The Frick Fine Arts building has this many floors.

What are three floors?

200

The Dietrich School offers this many Certificates (not including CGS certificates).

What are 14 certificates? 

200

This popular fast food sandwich was invented in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in 1967, and even has its own museum!

What is the Big Mac?

200

This “fishy” business man spent one year at Pitt before transferring out in 1977!

Who is Mark Cuban? 

200

The University of Pittsburgh has about this many registered student organizations. 

What is 650? 

300

The first of the Pitt branch campuses to be built. 

What is Johnstown?

300
The Africana Studies department houses this many majors, minors, and certificates.

What is four? (Africana Studies Major, Africana Studies-Literature Joint Major, Africana Studies Minor, and Certificate in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies.)

300

The name of the Pittsburgh Soccer Team

What are the Riverhounds?

300

This Pitt Alumni is a NFL hall of fame quarterback and played his entire NFL career with the Miami Dolphins.

Who is Dan Marino?

300

When it was the Schenley Hotel, the WPU hosted this 26th president of the U.S.

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

400

There are this many Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning

What is 31? 

400

COMMRC stands for the long-form name of this Dietrich major (what is the long-form name?) :)

What is Rhetoric and Communication?

400

Pittsburgh has this many bridges. 

What is 447?

400

This movie star who loves a rainy day graduated with a degree in Economics in 1933. 

Who is Gene Kelly? 

400

Previously called Pittsburgh Academy, Pitt was founded in this year.

What is 1787?

500

It would take about this many Dippy the Dinosaur statues to reach the top of the Cathedral.

What is 24 statues?

500

Both the International and Area Studies and this other major are offered as BPhil majors.

What is Political Science (BPhil) ?

500

The country's first gas station was opened in this neighborhood in 1913.

What is East Liberty?

500

Former Pitt Chancellor and Current Physicist graduated from the Dietrich School with his PhD in 1991.

Who is Patrick Gallagher? 

500

This many First-Year students enrolled in Pitt for the 2024-2025 school year.

What is 4,589?

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