What's on My Plate
This type of carbohydrate supports digestion, stabilizes blood sugar, and is found in foods like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
What is dietary fiber?
The technique used to make building appear larger or smaller than they really are on Main Street USA in Magic Kingdom or the American Adventure in EPCOT.
What is forced perspective?
In most commercial gyms, the largest standard plate is this weight, typically colored black or sometimes red in Olympic sets.
What is 45 pounds (20 kg)?
Folklore maintains that this bird, a symbol of knowledge found in the Everglades and Egypt, is the last sign of wildlife to take shelter before a hurricane and the first to reappear after the storm. The local marsh bird was considered UM's first unofficial mascot when the school yearbook adopted the name in 1926. Its popularity grew among the students during the 50's and in 1957, San Sebastian Hall, a residence hall on campus, sponsored the bird in the homecoming celebration. The next year, student John Stormont performed at games in a bird costume that was glued, sewn and pinned together and was the forerunner of today's bird who goes by this name.
Who is Sebastian the Ibis?
Chokes cut off blood flow, while joint locks apply pressure to ligaments — both are forms of this fight‑ending technique.
What are submissions?
This group consisting of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats provides the body with energy and are required in large amounts for daily function.
What are macronutrients?
Debuting with the Enchanted Tiki Room in 1963, and inspired by a mechanical singing bird in a bird cage on a trip to New Orleans, these robotic figures preform with synchronized movement, sound, and expression to bring characters to life.
What are Audio‑Animatronics?
These adjustable metal arms catch the barbell if a lifter fails a squat, preventing injury and equipment damage.
What are safety pins or spotter arms?
The official colors of the University of Miami, selected in 1926, and what they represent.
The colors of the Florida orange tree as this land was orange groves before it was home to the esteemed institution it is today.
Orange symbolizes the fruit of the tree, green represents the leaves and white represents the blossoms as we blossom through our education.
A proper guard keeps the hands high, elbows tight, and chin tucked to protect this vulnerable target.
What is the jaw?
Foods like eggs, fish, poultry, and soy are considered this because they contain all nine essential amino acids.
What are complete proteins?
Before any attraction is approved, Imagineers brainstorm freely in this early creative phase where no idea is too ambitious or unrealistic.
What is Blue Sky development?
The makeup of weights when benching 210 lbs. at a standard gym rack.
Two 45lbs. plates, two 35lbs. plates, two 2.5lbs. plates, and the bar (45lbs.)
Also known as First Quarter Smoke, this UM tradition takes place at every home football game. After the First Quarter, student leaders will line the student section and set off fire extinguishers into the stands filling the air with a hurricane like storm effect and bringing a cooling mist down upon the students.
What is Storm Warning?
In combat sports, fighters wear gloves not just to protect their opponent, but to protect this part of their own body from fractures.
What are the knuckles?
Endurance athletes often increase carbohydrate intake in the days before competition to maximize this stored energy source.
What is glycogen storage?
Pirates of the Caribbean’s “burning town” smell and Soarin’s “orange grove” aroma are examples of this sensory Imagineering technique.
Daily Double: What attraction, newly announced to get an update, is famous for the sent - Rome Burning?
What is scent engineering?
Daily Double: Spaceship Earth
A strong bench press begins with a tight upper back, a controlled arch, and this powerful technique that drives force from the lower body into the bar.
What is leg drive?
The historic cannons on campus, one beside Dooley Memorial and the other centered in Miller Circle, are intentionally aimed toward two symbolic locations.
What are the everglades and FSU?
Boxing, kickboxing, and MMA all use distance management — the closest range is clinch, while the farthest is this long‑range striking zone.
What is kicking range?
This term refers to the number of calories your body needs at rest to maintain basic functions like breathing, circulation, and cell repair.
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
The Haunted Mansion ballroom scene uses this classic illusion technique, where angled glass reflects hidden performers or props to create ghostly apparitions who appear and disappear in the proper lighting.
What is the Pepper’s Ghost effect?
This specialty bar, shaped like a hexagon, allows lifters to stand inside it and reduces spinal load during deadlifts.
What is a trap bar?
The cannon, kept by the Sigma Chi fraternity's Cannon Master, that used to be fired off during the games by the senior brothers of Sigma Chi whenever the Hurricanes ran out of the tunnel, after every point that the team scored, and at the conclusion of a victory.
What is Touchdown Tommy?
This legendary combat sports athlete held world titles in multiple weight classes, became known for his precise counter‑punching and defensive mastery, and retired undefeated after 50 professional fights.
Who is Floyd Mayweather Jr.?