Academics
Pine Valley
Professors
Number Theory
2026
100
Historians use this framework to understand history from the perspective of lower classes and minority groups.
What is social history (Bottom-up History?)
100
The Knot that we climb on at Pine Valley made so two loops of rope will go through the carabiner.
What is a super 8 on a bite?
100
Biology researcher and former Summer Honors camper.
Who is Anna Cronan?
100
The irrational number given by the ratio of circumference to diameter.
What is pi?
100
Performing the Super Bowl halftime show this year, this Puerto Rican artist could be said to be a lousy rabbit.
Who is Bad Bunny?
200
The part of DNA that is made up of a bunch of different parts including a coding region, promoter, and terminator (NOS.)
What is a Gene?
200
The type of rope used at Pine Valley when belaying, allowing a little stretch when weighted.
What is dynamic rope?
200
Professor of Criminal Justice and avid Jazz musician.
Who is Dr. Stu Batchelder?
200
The set of every natural number that has no factors other than 1 and itself.
What are prime numbers?
200
This science fiction movie based on a novel by Andy Weir blends real world science with fantastical space travel.
What is Project Hail Mary?
300
This type of popular resistence during the civil war was a response to inflating prices.
What were food riots (or southern bread riots?)
300
The kind of metal our carabiners with the light blue gate are made out of.
What is aluminum?
300
Professor of mathematics with degrees in chemistry and applied math from Georgia Tech and Iowa.
Who is Dr. Jeffery Landgren?
300
The common nomenclature for the number with infinitely repeating 9's after the decimal place: 0.99999999...
What is 1?
300
On March 19th, this icon in filmaking sadly passed away, leaving a legacy of several incredible jokes.
Who is Chuck Norris?
400
The term describing the different kinds of biomes in Georgia, housing myriad species enabling us to place 4/50 in biodiversity.
What are Ecoregions?
400
Abreviated TBD, the equipment with two holes with a small wire loop that allows us to belay and hold the weight of a climber with much less force.
What is a tubular belay device?
400
Professor of Biology and director of Honors program on Dahlonega campus.
Who is Dr. Meg Smith?
400
The set of numbers, denoted, that are often written as a linear combinatiorn of real and imaginary components. (That is:
)
What are complex numbers?
400
Named after the Greek goddess of the hunt, This space shuttle sequel launched into headlines for its lunar Flight path.
What is Artemis II?
500
This field of math, abreviated PDEs, is used for climate change predictions, aerodynamics, MRIs, and cell phones.
What are (sysytems of) partial differential equations?
500
Abbreviated SRD, the piece of equipment at the top of a high ropes element that the rope slides through.
What is a sheer reduction device?
500
This UNG Historian focuses on groups of people from the ground up.
Who is Dr. Thomas Greene?
500
The name of the universal constant of continuously compounding interest with the value of 2.718281828...
What is e? or What is Euler's number?
500
This one word describes the length of time America will have been independent this July 4.
Semiquincentinial