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This is the name of the SD Mines Campus newspaper.
What is the Aurum?
This 2009 Sci-Fi is the highest-grossing move ever at $2.9 B USD.
What is Avatar?
This physicist and mathematician is credited for three statements describing the relations between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The state of South Dakota is home to this many chapters of TBP.
What is 2 chapters?
This biological ATV in many westerns is completely unable to breathe through its mouth.
What is a horse?
SD Mines is a member of this NCAA Division II athletic conference.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
What is The Circle of Life?
This is the name of the French chemist who discovered the process of pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur.
This private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was the birthplace of TBP in 1885.
What is Lehigh University?
This fuzzy icon sleeps for 20-22 hours each day, making it the sleepiest creature in the animal kingdom.
What is a Koala?
Researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology are involved in cutting-edge research, involving this laboratory that houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology, and engineering.
What is SURF?
This car was made famous by its role as a time machine in "Back to the Future".
What is the DeLorean?
In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-filled Petri dish in his laboratory with its lid accidentally ajar. The sample had become contaminated with mold, and everywhere the mold was, the bacteria was dead. This led to the discovery of this world-altering antibiotic.
What is penicillin?
In 2022, 254 scholarships TBP were awarded from 394 applicants at this dollar amount per scholarship.
This aquatic mammal has spurs on their back feet that are filled with poison, making them one of the few venomous mammals on Earth.
What is a platypus?
This is the year that SDSMT was founded.
What is the 1885?
This director orchestrated the 1994 classic "Pulp Fiction"?
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century revolutionized the spread of information and knowledge.
What is the printing press?
This TBP Alumni made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. He was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the second person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
This small amphibian has eyes that are made and positioned in such a way that at any given moment they can see practically everything around them, including what is behind them. As if this did not make them difficult enough to sneak up on, have the ability to remain quite alert while "sleeping".
What is a frog?
According to the academic calendar, final exams begin on this day for the fall semester.
When is December 7th?
"The Fast and the Furious" is a popular series composed of this number of movies.
What is 11?
In the 1960s, a team of computer scientists working for this U.S. agency built a communications network to connect the computers in the agency, called ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet.
This MIT professor and alumnus is heralded as one of the most prolific inventors in the history of medicine, as well as the father of controlled drug release and tissue engineering. He is recognized by Google Scholar as the most cited engineer in history with an h-index of 316 and nearly 403,000 citations. His first name is Robert.
Who is Robert Langer Jr?
Despite this bird's tremendous running speed, it is not very good at eluding predators: It tends to run in circles due to the fact that its brain is smaller than either of its eyes.
What is an ostrich?