Banquets
School Years
Pomp and Circumstance
Big Nerds
UCLA Campus
100

The final meal Jesus Christ shared with his disciples is a popular subject for Renaissance art, usually pieces with THIS TITLE.

What is The Last Supper?

100

Cambridge University has seen many medical discoveries in its eight-hundred-year history. In 1978, research done there led to birth of Louise Brown, the first WHAT?

What is (a) test tube baby (IVF case)?

100

"Pomp and Circumstance" was played in 1901 at the coronation of Edward VII, the son of THIS ENGLISH QUEEN and her husband Albert.

Who is (Queen) Victoria?

100

One of the most famous pop culture nerds of the modern day is Hermione Granger, played on screen by THIS ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST.

Who is (Emma) Watson?

100

UCLA has never had a football stadium on campus. Before the Bruins began playing at THIS FOOTBALL STADIUM, they played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

What is the Rose Bowl?

200

THIS AUTHOR is known for including lavish detail when describing feasts in his Song of Ice and Fire series.

Who is (George R. R.) Martin?

200

East High was the site of both junior and senior year for Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton in THIS DISNEY MOVIE.

What is High School Musical?

200

The title "Pomp and Circumstance" comes from a line in THIS Shakespeare PLAY featuring Desdemona and Iago.

What is Othello?

200

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his first paper including the famous energy-mass equivalence formula E = mc2, where the c stands for THIS CONSTANT.

What is the speed of light?

200

Powell Library was built in THIS YEAR, seven years after the university was founded.

What is 1926?

300

A banquet is held in Stockholm, Sweden, annually after the ceremony is held for THESE AWARDS.

What are Nobel Prizes?

300

"I Am The Walrus" was written by THIS BEATLE in response to the news that schools were being asked to analyze the lyrics of Beatles songs.

Who is (John) Lennon?

300

Before the common usage of "Pomp and Circumstance", graduation ceremonies tended to use a section of The Marriage of Figaro by THIS COMPOSER.

Who is Mozart?

300

Shampoo, toothpaste, ketchup, and cornstarch mixed with water are all examples of fluids that don't follow the physical rules laid out by THIS SCIENTIST.

Who is Newton?

300
UCLA Commencement used to be held outdoors in THIS track STADIUM.

What is Drake Stadium?

400

For 67 years, Banquet Foods has been creating TV dinners for groups like THIS PARENT COMPANY of Food 4 Less, Ruler Foods and Ralphs.

What is Kroger?

400

The oldest university in Europe is housed in THIS ITALIAN CITY. No word on whether their dining halls serve deli meat.

What is Bologna?

400

"Pomp and Circumstance" was played for the first time in a graduation setting in 1905 at THIS New Haven UNIVERSITY.

What is Yale?
400

V – E + F = 2 describes the numbers of vertices, edges and faces present if one slices up a sphere, and is named after THIS prolific SWISS MATHEMATICIAN.

Who is (Leonhard) Euler?

400

The campus loop and the chemistry building at UCLA are named after different men who shared THIS LAST NAME.

What is Young?

500

The Banquet of Five Kings was a 1363 meeting of the leaders of England, Scotland, France, Denmark, and THIS Mediterranean ISLAND COUNTRY.

What is Cyprus?

500

What started as the Harvard Annex in 1879 was chartered as THIS WOMEN'S SCHOOL in 1894.

What is Radcliffe (University)?

500

The "Pomp and Circumstance" used at graduation is actually just one of six Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches composed by THIS ENGLISH COMPOSER.

Who is (Edward) Elgar?

500

THIS CHESS GRANDMASTER and her sisters were taught chess by her father from a very young age, in an effort to prove that "geniuses are made, not born."

Who is (Judit) Polgár?

500

THIS first Robert Langdon NOVEL, by Dan Brown, was turned into a film that included scenes shot at Royce Hall.

What is Angels and Demons?

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