AUS Trivia
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100

AUS was founded on this year.

When was 1997?

100

The capital of Portugal

Where is Lisbon?

100

An electronic signal that is either on or off and represented by a 1 or 0.

What is a Bit?

100

The second most abundant element in the Universe

What is Helium?

100
The color of aliens in the movie Avatar.

What is blue?

200

The accreditation held by all College of Engineering programs at AUS.

What is ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)?

200

The currency of Russia.

What is a Russian Ruble?

200

The address on a website located on the world wide web.

What is a URL?

200

The father of genetics.

Who was Gregor Mendel?

200

Incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards.

What is La La Land?

300

The new chancellor of AUS from August 2021 onwards.

Who is Dr. Susan Mumm?

300

The American state that contains Nashville.

Where is Tennessee?

300

Receiving information from another person's computer over a network and saving it on your own hard drive.

What is a download?

300

Newton’s third law states that “for every action, there is a reaction of ______ magnitude and _______ direction."

What is equal?

What is opposite?

300
A TV show about a group of mystery-solving friends and their dog.

Who is Scooby Doo?

400

The Vice Provost for Student Life.

Who is Dr. Lisa Moscaritolo?

400

The official name of the Big Ben in London.

Where is Elizabeth Tower?

400

The temporary storage space on your computer.

What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?

400

The oldest programming language used till this day.

What is Fortran?

400
In the TV sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Detective Rosa Diaz's formal leather jacket.

What is the jacket without any blood in it?

500

The total number of nationalities at AUS (as per Fall 2020 enrollment).

How much is 86?

500

Glossectomy is the removal of all of or part of ________.

What is a tongue?

500

A network designed to allow communication within an organization.

What is an Intranet?

500

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen receive the first Nobel Prize in Physics (1901) for ________.

What is an X-Ray?

500

In the movie 'Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood', Margot Robbie portrayed this late actress.

Who is Sharon Tate?

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