NMU
What year was NMU founded?
1899
What was the first music video played on MTV?
Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
How many cats has Ashley had in her lifetime
5
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature besides mercury?
Gallium
What is the only U.S. state whose official state beverage is milk?
Wisconsin
What was NMU’s original name when it was established?
Northern State Normal School
What is the only Best Picture-winning film (Oscars) to feature an entirely non-human cast?
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
What is Ashleys Major and (potential) Minor?
Major: Theatre Technology and Design (Stage Management Concentration)
Minor: Philosophy
What element is named after a real-life woman?
Curium, named after Marie Curie
What is the only U.S. state without a straight-line border?
Hawaii, it’s all natural coastline!
NMU is home to one of the only two Olympic training centers for which sport?
Greco-Roman Wrestling
What was the first video game to be played in space?
Tetris
played on a Game Boy by a Russian cosmonaut in 1993
What was Ashleys first door dec
A Hollywood Walk of Fame star
What rare weather phenomenon involves luminous orbs of electricity floating mid-air?
Ball Lightning
What was the first city in the United States to install a traffic light?
Cleveland, Ohio in 1914
What unusual pet did NMU students once famously try to make the university’s unofficial mascot?
A moose calf
In The Office, what is the title of Michael Scott’s action movie screenplay?
Threat Level Midnight
What is the first production Ashley worked on?
Alice in Wonderland
What is the most abundant organism on Earth?
Pelagibacter ubique, a marine bacterium, there's more than any other living thing!
What is the only U.S. state to have had six different national flags flown over it? (Answer: Texas—it was ruled by Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States, and the U.S.)
Texas, it was ruled by Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States, and the U.S.
What rare academic program does NMU offer that is found at fewer than 5 universities in the U.S.?
The Medicinal Plant Chemistry program
What was the first feature-length animated film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
In which country AND city does Ashleys family own a resort
Ski Resort- Zurich Switzerland
Ski Haus
In quantum physics, what thought experiment suggests a cat could be simultaneously alive and dead?
Schrödinger’s Cat
What U.S. president was arrested while in office for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage?
Ulysses S. Grant, he was fined $20