ND Athletics
The ND men's team in this sport won the national championship in both 2023 AND 2024
What is Lacrosse?
An electrical component that stores electric charge, typically constructed of two parallel metal plates
What is a capacitor?
This river flows through the heart of South Bend, giving the city its name due to the large bend in its course
What is the Saint Joseph River?
The number of strings on a standard guitar plus the number of valves on a modern trumpet
What is nine?
Notre Dame won the co-ed national championship in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026 for this sport
What is Fencing?
ND recently switched their heating/cooling system to this type of energy, which constitutes 70% of Iceland's energy consumption
What is Geothermal Energy?
This minor league baseball team, a high-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, is housed in South Bend.
Who are the South Bend Cubs?
The brother and sister colleges of Notre Dame
What are Saint Mary's College and Holy Cross College?
This is the last year Notre Dame won a national football title, before any of you were born
What is 1988?
In Computer Programming, this data type refers to an address in memory
What is a pointer?
This former mayor of South Bend ran for president in 2020, becoming the first openly gay democratic candidate to run for president of the U.S.
Who is Pete Buttigieg?
Living nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus, this Norse explorer is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America
Who is Leif Erikson?
In 2022, Netflix released a documentary about this former Notre Dame linebacker who earned a unanimous All-American honors, detailing his infamous experience with getting catfished a decade earlier
Who is Manti Te'o?
Adding an extra lane to a highway has been shown to often cause more traffic, which is a common example of this seemingly paradoxical phenomenon where increased supply leads to a rise in consumption
What is Induced Demand?
This entertainment center just east of campus is known for bowling, go-karts, arcades games, and is favorite outing for many Notre Dame Students
What is Strikes and Spares?
Two of the counselors' fun facts from orientation
What are two of the following:
Liah: I have torn both of my ACLs
Eliana: I have the best chocolate chip cookie recipe
Ally: I have 2 dogs named after former ND presidents
Matthias: Great sports knowledge
Pascual: I live in the most dangerous city in the world
Hung: I've never broken a bone
Taylor: I also work at Crumbl Cookies
Sophia: I play trombone in the ND Band
Rachael: I've played Piano for 15 years
George: I scuba dive
Matthew: I speak 1 language
Santiago: I love hiking
Deisy:
Bela: My favorite instrument to play was the timpani
Isabella:
Lauren:
This former women's basketball coach led ND to two national championships
Who is Muffet McGraw?
These types of chemicals, which were commonly used as refrigerants and aerosols, were phased out in the 80s and 90s for causing the hole in the ozone layer
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
This Great Lakes indigenous tribe, famously know as the "keepers of the sacred fire" shares its name with the local zoo in South Bend
Who are the Potawatomi?
This perfect square is the sum of the first nine perfect cubes, the LCM of 75 & 81, and 11111101001 in binary
What is 2025?