UVM fun facts
This famous actor attended UVM to study Spanish and then left because he fractured his hip playing basketball
Ben Affleck
Adjective meaning close to the actual amount, but not completely exact
Approximate
Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect
Hot water springs called geysers take their name from a specific one in this country
Iceland
If the universe were to end with a "Big Crunch," this means it would collapse into what big, sucky space object?
Black Hole
This psychedelic rock band from Vermont once performed in the Grundle
Phish
Poison aka ...
Toxin
Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease
Curling & Curing
Now a rundown area of any city, it comes from a type of road along which logs were hauled
Skid row
What “-ism” is the branch of physics that describes the physical interaction between electrically charged particles?
Electromagnetism
What animal was the UVM mascot originally supposed to be?
Camel
A compound with 2 atoms per molecule of element No. 8
Dioxide
The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible
label & Abel
Now looka, I say, looka here! This breed of chicken is named for Livorno, Italy
Leghorn
What quantity did Newton assume was identical to mass, but we now know also depends upon velocity?
Inertia
DAILY DOUBLE: The sports bra (orginally coined the jockbra) was invented on UVM's campus. In what building this happen in?
The Royal Tyler Theatre
A bumper sticker favorite, it means to live together peacefully despite differences
Coexist
Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way
Carousel & Carouse
Meaning to break up into smaller units, this term comes from a geographic region that was divided in the 19th & 20th centuries
To Balkanize
Who first suggested that particles would have antiparticles?
Paul Dirac
In the 1800s, there was a student protest about what being on the Waterman Green?
Goats
Bosley regrowth products contain this topical vasodilator
Minoxidil
A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete
Clement & Cement
Ready to hit the spa? Then let's head to the town it's named for in the Ardennes in this European country
Belgium
Which field of math is named for a mispronunciation of an Arabic phrase meaning "reunion of broken parts"?
Algebra, from al-jabr