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100

The Roman name for the goddess of the hunt.

Who is Diana?

100

This value is the highest possible unit overload.

What is 12?

100

This person kills a cat successfully with a 50% chance? 


Who is Erwin Schrödinger?

100

This Carnegie Mellon Professor and his fantastic smile also teaches Thermodynamics.

Who is Mechanical Engineering Professor Satbir Singh?

100

A common material used for buggy construction. 

What is carbon fiber?

200

After cheating death twice, this figure was forced to push a boulder up a hill for all of eternity.

Who is Sisyphus?

200

This value is the lowest of the thermodynamic scale.

What is absolute zero?

200

This person is often referred to as “the first programmer”.

Who is Ada Lovelace?


200

This Mellon College of Science Professor shares the name with another Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Who is Physics professor David Anderson?  

200

This event brings together Greek organizations for a night of fun performances.

What is Greek Sing?

300

The day of the week ‘Wednesday’ is named after this Norse god.

Who is Odin?

300

In CS, the limit as x approaches infinity of f(x) < the limit as x approaches infinity of M*g(x) is also referred to by this notation.

What is Big O?

300

This mathematician and logician who conducted much of his work at Bletchley Park was chemically castrated.

Who was Alan Turing?

300

This Carnegie Mellon Calculus Professor is notorious for the difficulty of his classes. This professor was awarded a grant from the Department of Defense in 2015 for thier work on Fractional derivatives.

Who is Professor Udita Katugampola?

300

Prior to in front of CFA, booths were erected in a parking lot that is now this location.

What is the Tepper quad?

400

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this sculptor brought a statue to life after falling in love with it.

Who is Pygmalion?

400

Limit as n approaches infinity of the sum of k as k goes from 1 to n.

What is -1/12?

400

The only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Who was Marie Curie?

400

This Carnegie Mellon Professor gave a talk at the 228th Special CMSM Seminar.

Who is Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu?

400

The fence collapsed in this year due to the weight of paint. 

What is 1993?

500

This group of 5 brothers fought against 100 of their cousins during a war in a work written by Vyasa.

Who are the Pandavas?

500

Is the sky the limit? According to this rapper, yes!

Who is Notorious B.I.G?

500

This nineteenth-century figure developed the first method to mass-produce steel inexpensively.

Who was Henry Bessemer?

500

This Carnegie Mellon Professor used to live in Flagstaff Arizona, so they find it interesting that Pittsburgh has a Flagstaff hill.

Who is Civil/Environmental Professor Fethiye Ozis?

500

Men’s: 2:02:16

Women’s: 2:23:27

All-Gender: 2:45:58

What are the record buggy times?

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