Georgetown
Name the organization that planned Georgetown Day.
GPB
Which planet in the solar system rotates about an axis perpendicular to its orbital plane around the sun?
Uranus
The capital city of the Aztec Empire in the 15th century, located in present day Mexico City.
Tenochtitlan
The RGB color system denotes all colors on a scale of 0 to what?
255
This French painter is most famous for his paintings of haystacks and water lilies.
Oscar Claude Monet
What is the last name of the person whom Leo’s is named after?
O’Donovan
What is the 29th element in the periodic table?
Copper
Games Abdel Nasser nationalized which waterway, resulting in an invasion by the French and British?
Suez Canal
Which scientist studied chimpanzees and Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania?
Jane Morris Goodall
This Korean Grammy nominee performed a pop song about a yellow dairy product at the 2022 Grammy Award Show.
BTS
Which Georgetown Alum starred in “A Star is Born” and visited campus in 2018?
Bradley Cooper
Calculate the determinant of a 2 by 2 matrix with the rows 5 3 -7 1
26
Which ancient historian wrote History of the Peloponnesian War?
Thucydides (THOO-sid-ah-dees)
Which famous 80s movie franchise is this line from? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
Back to the future
Which of Orson Welles’ novels was adapted into a radio drama, broadcast on Halloween, which supposedly caused widespread panic among Americans thinking an alien invasion was occurring?
War of the Worlds
Which of Georgetown’s latin mottos translates into “all are one”?
Utraque unum
In physics, these are analogous to springs in oscillatory circuits, and classically consist of two charged plates separated by a dielectric. These circuit elements are measured in farads.
Capacitor
Vanuatu became independent from this European country in 1980.
France
What is the letter or music pitch that corresponds with an audio frequency of 44 hertz.
A
Which author wrote the historic text, The 120 Days of Sodom, in 1785?
Marquis de Sade
Which Pope received an honorary degree from Georgetown in October 1936 in Gaston Hall?
Pius XII or Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli
This disease is characterized by high pressure in the eye and optic nerve damage, frequently resulting in blindness, and is highly associated with diabetes.
Glaucoma
The poet Li Bai and Du Fu wrote during this Chinese dynasty which lasted from 618-907, during which the An Shi rebellion took place.
Tang Dynasty
This term is used to refer to RSS, Atom, JavaScript, and several other languages in a new web technology that built upon the first static HTML webpages.
Web 2.0
This Chilean poet used green ink and wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Elementary Odes, and won the nobel prize in 1971.
Pablo Neruda