EWB Trivia
The number of admin positions are open right now
What is 5? (East Africa, Guatemala, Context Committee, Fundraising, Finance)
This much of the world’s water is saline.
What is 96%
The national bird of Guatemala
What is a Quetzal (or Resplendent Quetzal)?
The number of projects the Guatemala Project has completed.
What is six?
The Number of times U of M has won the National Championship in football
What is 7? (1904, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, and 1960)
The year garden projects (Local’s projects) stopped being done by Guatemala and the former Ethiopia projects
The percentage of the world’s population that will be living in water insecure countries by 2025.
What is 50%
The most famous Guatemalan painter in the last 50 years.
Who is Oscar Peren?
The standard units of measurement for water in Comalapa, Guatemala.
What are tonnes/gallons?
The year the first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants aired
What is 1999?
The Tony Diggs Excellence Award our chapter won last year.
What is the Excellence in Academics award?
This core component/material used in civil engineering contributes 8% of human caused global carbon emissions.
What is concrete?
The date of Díos Patrios, Guatemala’s independence day. (Bonus points for date and year)
What is September 15th? (1821)
The number of Guatemala projects that have implemented wells.
What is one?
The last NCAA Division 1 team from the University of Minnesota to win a National Championship.
What is Women’s Hockey (2016)
The number of professional mentors for our chapter (all three projects).
The current undergraduate population at the University of Minnesota (as of fall 2023) (+- 5%)
What is 39,556 (37,578 - 41,534)
The length of the historical mural in San Juan Comalapa.
What is 590 feet
The stage of the EWB project process where the last project in Simajhuleu ended
What is implementation?
The number of athletes in the 2024 Summer Olympics that are from Minnesota.
What is 19?
The African countries our chapter has had a project in.
What are Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Malawi?
The number of Milwaukee Tools drills and impact wrenches/drivers currently in the EWB Civil Engineering Space (+/- 2)
What is 19?
The number of native speakers of Kaqchikel in Guatemala (+- 10%)
What is 410,000? (441,000 - 369,000)
The first project the Guatemala project completed.
What is Chimiyá?
The soccer team that won the National Women’s Soccer League championship two weeks ago.
What is Orlando Pride?