MIT
What date does MIT undergraduate admissions send out decision letters?
March 14, Pi Day
The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?
Sir Isaac Newton
What is the name of the person who designed and created the original implementation protocol for Bitcoin?
Satoshi Nakamoto
What word refers to the weight per unit volume of any given substance?
Density
In algebra, what word means a number or constant placed in front of a variable to multiply that variable, such as the 4 in 4x + y?
Coefficient
How did MIT's beaver mascot earn his name?
MIT spelled backwards
How many bones do sharks have in their bodies?
Zero
Developed at MIT and Boston Dynamics, Spot is a contact-free robot who helps with basic patient care and is mounted on a body with how many legs?
Four
Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?
Nintendo Wii
Tabletop role playing games often require a set of dice with different numbers of sides. How many sides are on the die mathematicians would identify as a "dodecahedron?"
Twelve
Which 2022 superhero film featured scenes from around campus, including outside the Stratton Student Center, a dorm room in Simmons Hall, and a fight scene on the Massachusetts Avenue bridge?
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
What is the only planet that spins clockwise?
Venus
Andy Rubin is known as one of the three founders of what massively popular cell phone operating system?
Android
What Elon Musk-founded tunneling firm raised $118 million in venture capital funding in April 2018?
The Boring Company
A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, apart from the number itself. What is the smallest perfect number?
Six
What was ranked as the most significant invention from an MIT faculty or alumni by the Boston Globe in 2011?
The World Wide Web (credited to Tim Berners-Lee)
What part of the human body serves the purpose of maintaining balance?
The ears
Which American “hypercar” maker based in Texas “makes fast cars faster” with mods like Venom and Exorcist?
Hennessey
What is the moment of an 8 Newton force acting on a lever at a perpendicular distance of 5 meters?
40 Nm
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40
What was the total cost of the 2006 heist of Caltech's Fleming Cannon?
$7,000
Roughly how long does it take for the sun’s light to reach Earth?
8 minutes
What video game franchise was originally developed by Will Wright and launched in 1989 for the Macintosh computer?
SimCity
Hybrit engineers and manufactures what colorful kind of steel, which has a lower carbon footprint from its production?
Green Steel
What is the sum of the only number that is spelled with its letters in alphabetical order and the only number that is spelled with its letters in reverse alphabetical order?
41