Outside the B-Oxy
What is the only marine animal documented to have a confirmed, multi-century lifespan of over 500 years?
The ocean quahog clam. (A specific specimen, named "Ming," was found to be 507 years old!)
How many flat surfaces does a perfectly round mathematical sphere have?
Zero! A sphere is unique because it is entirely round and has no flat surfaces, corners, or edges
Housed in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, what famously extinct bird has an infamous, remarkably complete, mummified specimen (with surviving soft tissue)?
The Dodo
What percentage of Earth's atmosphere is made up of oxygen?
About 21% (trailing behind nitrogen's 78%)
Occidental has one of two swinging pendulums in Los Angeles. The other is located:
At the Griffith Observatory
What movie holds the record for the most successful movie at the Irish box office?
Barbie (2023)
What is the specific mathematical formula used to calculate the volume of a sphere?
V = 4/3 ttr to the 3rd power
What does the acronym OED stand for?
Oxford English Dictionary
What is the atomic number of oxygen on the periodic table?
8
Name one of the years that former President Obama attend Oxy?
1979-1981
What was the first product ever scanned using a Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode on June 26, 1974?
A 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum
What was the name of the first FIFA Official Women's World Cup?
1st FIFA World Championship for Women's Football for the M&M's Cup.
Oxford is famously older than this ancient civilization empire.
The Aztec Empire
What is the primary protein in human red blood cells that transports oxygen throughout the body?
Hemoglobin.
Who were the two goal scorers at Oxy's 2025 SCIAC Playoff WIN against Chapman?
No Cheating!
Mia "MimiMooMoo" Merkelbach
Sophia "Soph" Weigt
What date did "The Megalodon" monster truck make it's Monster Jam Debut?
Double Points if you list the city where it debuted!!!
The Megalodon monster truck debuted on January 7, 2017, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Which of Earth’s four primary spheres contains all the liquid, solid, and gaseous water on the planet?
Hydrosphere
What academic partnership do Oxy and Oxford share? Hint: It is a scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship Pipeline
While we often credit the Amazon Rainforest as the "lungs of the Earth," which tiny marine organisms actually produce about half of the world's oxygen?
Phytoplankton.
The EXACT Date Oxy was founded.
April 20, 1887
What was the name of the last horse to win the Triple Crown?
The last Triple Crown winner in American Thoroughbred horse racing was Justify.
Justify swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in 2018. He is one of only 13 horses in history to achieve the feat.
What is the largest known spherical object in the entire universe?
UY Scuti
is a hypergiant star, and while stars aren't mathematically perfect spheres, its massive gaseous shape is the largest known object.
What exactly is the Oxford comma?
It is the comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually "and" or "or") in a list of three or more items
Which English chemist is officially credited with discovering oxygen in 1774?
Joseph Priestley (though Swedish-German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered it earlier but published it later).
What are the names of all three set pieces we worked on this spring?
Elevator, Shark, MimiMooMoo