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100

This song didn't become a Pitt Football classic until 2008!

What is "Sweet Caroline"? 

100

This building in the Life Sciences Complex is named after a Pitt astronomer, who successfully flew the first steam-driven, motor-operated airplane, which hangs in Posvar Hall.

What is Langley Hall?

100

This former baseball field's home plate is located right outside suite 1400. 

What is Forbes Field? 

100

Varsha's dog is named this, after a beloved cartoon dog or the last "planet" in our solar system.

What is Pluto? 

100

Five of our ambassadors study this subject in the Natural Sciences.

What is Psychology?

200

Posvar Hall, is named after Wesley Posvar, who served in this position at the University until 1991.

What is Chancellor?

200

This special Welcome Week event was started by Pitt women in 1920, to pass on the "light of learning" to the next generation of students.

What is Lantern Night?

200

On April 9, 1895, at the Allegheny Observatory, James Edward Keeler confirmed that this planet's rings were not solid.

What is Saturn? 

200

This senior ambassador took dance lessons for 11 years!

Who is Jordyn?

200

This ambassador has 4 tattoos (one of which is cupid)!

Who is Dom? 

300

Pitt receives more research dollars than Stanford and this Ivy League school in Connecticut combined!

What is Yale? 

300

The tallest university building in the world, 252 feet taller than the second tallest, The Cathedral of Learning, is located in this large, eastern European city.

What is Moscow? 

300

Director George Romero worked for this Pittsburgh kids’ TV legend who came to the “Night of the Living Dead” premiere.

Who is Mr. Rogers? 

300

This Ambassador once lived in Michigan!

Who is Bhaskar?

300

This junior ambassador played 6 years of travel softball and was a pitcher!

Who is Emma? 

400

Gene Kelly, famous dancer and actor, graduated from Pitt in 1933 with this social science degree.

What is Economics? 

400

Dr. Thomas Starzl, a Pitt Med faculty member known as the "the father of modern transplantation", performed the first human transplant of this organ. 

What is the liver?

400

Jim Delligatti is credited with inventing this iconic sandwich at his Pittsburgh-area McDonald's franchise in 1967.

What is the Big Mac? 

400

This senior ambassador had a monkey jump on their back when they were a child!

Who is Sindhu? 

400

Her parents wanted to name her 'Rebecca' instead of this name.

Who is Shanthi?

500

This humanities department in the Dietrich School is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the world, often beating out Harvard and other Ivy Leagues.

What is Philosophy?

500

This Pittsburgh-born, Texas-based Shark from "Shark Tank" attended Pitt for their freshman year before transferring to Indiana University.

Who is Mark Cuban?

500

This station is the first and oldest commercial radio station in the US. 

What is KDKA? 

500

This junior ambassador has been to every Disney Park in the word except in Shanghai and Tokyo! 

Who is Luciana? 

500

This senior ambassador started hallucinating after 4 days without sleeping on a camping trip!

Who is Henry?
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