Academics
Time and Sleep
College,Stress and Time
CU Trivia
2000's Trivia
100

Study breaks should be this long.

What is 5-10 minutes? (longer study breaks can cause you to lose focus)

100

The number of hours in a week.

What is 168?

100

College students work about this many hours a week.

What is 20 hours?

100

The year CU was established.

What is 1876 (5 months before CO became a state).

100

Much to the delight of science fiction fans everywhere, this series containing Time Lords, Companions, and Daleks was revived in 2005 after a nine-year hiatus.

What is Doctor Who?

200

You should study this long until taking a break.

What is about 30-60 minutes?

200

Number of hours of sleep people should get each night.

What is 7-8 hours?

200

The average person gets how many interruptions every _______ minutes.

What is 8 minutes?

200

The mascot of CU.

What is Ralphie (buffalo) or Chip (costume)

200

This professional baseball player became only the 4th player to reach 600 homeruns in August of 2002?

Who is Barry Bonds

300

These foods are bad to eat before studying.

What are Sugary foods?

300

Pulling all-nighters can reduce your capacity for studying and remembering new facts by this percent. (Nearest 10's)

What is 40%?

300

The Pomodoro technique suggests to take breaks of 5 minutes this often...

What is 25 minutes?

300

The number of Nobel Laureates to come from CU.

What is five? David Wineland, physics, 2012; John Hall, physics, 2005; Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman, physics, 2001; Thomas Cech, chemistry, 1989

300

In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," this fatherly character died.

Who is Sirius Black?

400

ASAP provides tutoring in these subjects.

What are all subjects.

400

You should do this between study sessions to increase long term retention and memory.

What is sleep?

400

Stress kills these important cells, which don't stop growing when you’re an adult, they just grow more slowly

What are Brain Cells

400

According to the US News website, one of the top 5 majors at CU (based off 2018 graduates).

  • Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

     14%

  • Biological and Biomedical Sciences

     13%

  • Engineering

     13%

  • Social Sciences

     13%

  • Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs

     10%

400

The name of the girl Keira Knightley played in "Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"

Elizabeth Swan

500

The graduation rate of CU Boulder.

What is around 70%?

500

The sensation of falling when half asleep and jerking yourself awake just as you land.

What are hypnic jerks? (also accept hypnagogic jerk, sleep start, sleep twitch, myoclonic jerk or night start)

500

This gland pumps adrenaline, which raises your heart rate, your blood pressure, and increases the amount of sugar in your blood as a part of the stress response.

What is the Adrenal gland?

500

This lone building was not only the site of all classes, but contained the office of the president and a living area for he and his family, and the university library.

What is Old Main?

500

In 2002, the Winter Olympic Games were held in this state.

What is Utah?
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