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100
You'll need four years of this college-prep subject to get into a public four-year college in California.
What is English?
100
This numerical measure of a student's academic achievement is sometimes abbreviated "GPA."
What is Grade Point Average?
100
A close relative to a common household pet, Chico State's mascot is this feline critter.
What is the wildcat?
100
Engineering is an exciting field and includes many varieties of majors. List three types.
What is computer, electrical, mechanical, environmental, structural, electronic, biomedical, aeronautical, civil, chemical, petroleum, etc.?
100
This introduction to the US Consitution begins, ""We the people of the United Studies."" It is commonly referred to as this.
What is the preamble?
200
Algebra I, Algebra II, and this class meet the basic mathematics requirement for a public four-year college in California.
What is Geometry? (trig okay, too)
200
Even though we are friendly, the "CSU" in our formal name (CSU Chico) does not stand for Customer Service Unit, but rather this.
What is California State University?
200
The creator of “Sponge Bob SquarePants” is a graduate of this northern California CSU that’s surrounded by the world’s tallest trees.
What is CSU Humboldt?
200
Students who want to be elementary school teachers major in this subject and study a little bit about everything.
What is Liberal Studies?
200
The Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers recently battled it out here.
What is the Super Bowl 2013?
300
These two college entrance exams measure a student's skills in reading, writing and math. One even includes science!
What are the SAT and ACT?
300
"B.S." can stand for something totally inappropriate, but in the college arena, it's one type of university degree.
What is Bachelor of Science?
300
Notable musicians, Adam Lambert and Gwen Stefani, attended this CSU located about 170 miles southwest of Chico.
What is CSU San Francisco?
300
If you’d like a profession in writing for magazines, or news broadcasting, you would major is this in college.
What is Journalism?
300
If you’d like a profession in writing for magazines, or news broadcasting, you would major is this in college.
What is Journalism?
400
The nation's largest public university system is located in California and is comprised of these many campuses. (Hint: It’s a prime number.)
What is twenty-three?
400
High school students can earn honors points and even college credit if they take AP courses and then pass an AP exam with a high enough score. "AP" is short for this program.
What is Advanced Placement?
400
This near CSU campus had the 1st west coast program in mechatronic engineering. If you like robotics, you might go there.
What is CSU Chico!
400
This major examines human body movement and used to be called “physical education,” but now it assumes this fancier, scientific name.
What is Kinesiology?
400
This week, Justin Bieber fainted on stage during a concert in this world city.
What is London?
500
The CSU has university campuses throughout the state of California. There is one near you. Name five.
What are (pick 5 among): Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Chico, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Fresno, Fullerton, Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Maritime, Monterey Bay, Northridge, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos, Sonoma, or Stanislaus?
500
To help pay for college costs, students can apply for a variety of financial aid programs with this one application, often abbreviated "FAFSA."
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
500
Students are called “cadets” at this smallest CSU and take finals at sea on board of the Golden Bear vessel.
What is CSU Maritime Academy?
500
This science is the study of matter. If you are curious why a rubber ball bounces, you might give it a try.
What is Physics?
500
Asia, Antarctica and Europe are continents. Name the four others.
What are Africa, Australia, North America and South America?
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