SFU
Surge
Gaming
Tech
Entertainment
100

This former SFU athlete ran the Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.

Terry Fox

100

This is SFU's largest MLH accredited hackathon.

StormHacks

100

This video game franchise is the inspiration for the Netflix series "Arcane".

League of Legends

100

A rival of Thomas Edison, this inventor once worked for him and is widely known for his experiments with electricity.

Nikola Tesla

100

This is the highest rated MCU movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

Black Panther

200

This SFU campus location resides on the unceded traditional territories of the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Coast Salish people.

Burnaby campus

200

This Surge mascot isn't the most technical of otters. Instead, they can be found drawing - and are sometimes distracted by dinosaurs. 

Sparky

200

This game features a war between humans and an alien alliance known as the Covenant.

Halo

200

What does the GPT in "Chat-GPT" stand for?

Generative Pre-Trained Transformer

200

It took this many years for the second Avatar sequel to come out after the first.

13 years

300

SFU is the first Canadian university to compete in this athletic association.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

300
As the more technical Surge mascot, this otter turns ideas into prototypes. With their big grain ideas, they help hackers build new things.

Stormy

300

This Minecraft character has a beard.

Steve

300

A detailed outline or rough draft of a program. Done in words.

Pseudocode

300

Zoro is a character in which Netflix live-action adapation?

One Piece

400

This was the proposed name for Simon Fraser University when it was opening in 1965.

Fraser University (FU)

400

The year SFU Surge was founded.

Fall 2019

400

Before they made video games, this Japanese company produced playing cards.

Nintendo

400

Where did Mark Zuckerberg go to school before he dropped out?

Harvard

400

Known for his famous electron diagrams, this scientist was played by Kenneth Branagh in Oppenheimer.

Niels Bohr

500

This Disney+ original series about the children of Greek gods was recently filmed on the Burnaby campus.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

500

This Software Systems Student was one of the co-founders of SFU Surge.

Jeffery Leung

500

This video game company had a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site.

Atari

500

This British mathematician helped the Allies win the Second World War with his advances in computer science. 

Alan Turing
500

What is the highest grossing movie of 2023?

Barbie

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