Pop Culture
This artist performed at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show in February 2024, bringing out special guests and performing hits in Las Vegas.
Who is USHER?
This area is the main hub for engineering students at Texas Tech, where you’ll find classrooms, labs, and the Dean’s office.
What is the Engineering Center (Engineering Key)?
You’ll hear this iconic phrase shouted across campus at every football game
What is “Raider! Power!”?
This classic Halloween movie follows three witchy sisters resurrected in Salem after a virgin lights the Black Flame Candle.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This academic building on campus is infamous for being an absolute nightmare to navigate, with floors that don't line up, confusing hallways, and a layout that makes zero architectural sense. Multiple students have cried trying to find their classroom here.
What is HOLDEN HALL? (Accept: Architecture Building, or any building students collectively agree is confusing)
What 2024 movie broke box office records and featured Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken”?
What is Barbie?
Located in the Engineering Center, this office helps students with tutoring, advising, and workshops to support academic success in engineering.
What is the Engineering Opportunities Center (EOC)?
Students throw these types of tortillas at football games to celebrate touchdowns—because why not mix carbs with school spirit?
What are FLOUR TORTILLAS?
In 2024, this Texas Tech building was rumored to be haunted after students claimed to hear footsteps, voices, and doors creaking late at night.
What is the Engineering Key (or Holden Hall, depending on who you ask)?
This mascot rides a horse at football games and is one of the most iconic traditions in college sports.
What is THE MASKED RIDER?
Finish this viral lyric from Sabrina Carpenter's song that became everyone's caption and sound on TikTok in 2024: "I'm working late, cause I'm a ___"
What is SINGER? (The answer is "singer" - avoiding full lyric reproduction)
This student organization is the main professional home for chemical engineering majors and offers networking, plant tours, and research opportunities.
What is AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)?
When seniors are about to graduate, they get to ring this special symbol of achievement located near the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.
What is the Victory Bells?
This famous West Texas haunted attraction features real actors, jump scares, and enough screaming to wake the entire city of Lubbock.
What is the Lubbock Haunted Maze or Nightmare on 19th Street?
Before big exams, students visit the Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue and perform this specific action to the statue for good luck. What do they do?
What is RUB THE SPURS / TOUCH THE HORSE'S NOSE? (Accept: touch the statue)
In 2024, this AI companion app went viral with people forming genuine emotional attachments to their chatbots, leading to both memes and serious discussions about AI relationships.
What is CHARACTER.AI? (Accept: Replika)
What are the minors (2) that chemical engineering majors can graduate with?
What is Bionengineering & (Polymers & Material Science)?
This statue is one of the most photographed spots on campus, and legend says you’ll marry a fellow Red Raider if you walk around it with them at midnight.
What is Will Rogers and Soapsuds (“Riding into the Sunset”)?
This mansion is famous in Lubbock for being haunted by the souls of the people who died there... A husband killed his wife there... LOTS of killings
What is Wooerow Manor?
This street runs along the edge of campus and is notorious for being where students go for nightlife, restaurants, and questionable decisions at 2 AM. What street is this?
What is BROADWAY?
This HBO show created by Sam Levinson became notorious for its controversial content, aesthetic cinematography, and extremely dedicated fan base who analyze every single frame. Name the show.
What is EUPHORIA?
The Whitacre College of Engineering offers this prestigious scholarship and leadership program, named after a former CEO of General Motors and Texas Tech alumnus.
What is the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. Leadership Scholarship Program?
Sing the Matador SONG
What is
"Fight, Matadors, for Tech!
Songs of love we'll sing to thee,
Bear our banners far and wide.
Ever to be our pride,
Fearless champions ever be.
Stand on heights of victory.
Strive for honor evermore.
Long live the Matadors!" ?
Legend has it that if you walk through Memorial Circle at midnight on Halloween, you might hear the sounds of this famous Texas Tech spirit who’s said to haunt campus.
Who is the Ghost of the Masked Rider?
These are the 4 classes that a typical Sophomore will take in the fall of their chemical engineering path.
What is Calc III, Intro to Chem Processes, Principles of Physics II, Principles of Chem II?