Math
Acronym for the order of operations
PEMDAS
Name of the Italian art movement meaning “rebirth”
Renaissance
Hey, this is a dry campus! Make sure your drinks don’t have this functional group
Alcohol
Jonathan Swift wrote this wacky adventure satire novel that has characters like the Lilliputians
Gulliver's Travels
Year UNL was established
1869
Sequence behind symmetrical faces, spirals, and sunflowers, to name a few things
Fibonacci
Artist who created the 1889 painting “Starry Night”
Vincent van Gogh
In addition to the powerhouse of the cell, plants also have this energy-harnessing organelle
Chloroplast
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story by this author, who also wrote The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
How many students attend UNL?
25,390
The only even prime number
2
The name of Donatello’s bronze Biblical sculpture
David
As a planetary layer, it is between the core and crust; as a part of molluscs, it produces the shell
Mantle
Charles Dickens wrote this novel about the orphan Pip and his companion Miss Havisham
Great Expectations
How many acres did the university buy when acquiring innovation campus
249
Cosine is equal to dividing these two sides of a triangle, relative to an angle
Adjacent over hypotenuse
One of the founders of Cubism who painted “Guernica”
Pablo Picasso
These dense and towering clouds are responsible for rainstorms
Cumulonimbus
Pablo Neruda, who penned the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair hailed from this country
Chile
What is the oldest building on campus?
Architecture Hall
These two men independently developed calculus
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz
Midwest native who painted the famous “American Gothic”
Grant Wood
The term explaining how light can both refract yet excite electrons in a quantized manner
Wave-particle duality
This mid-20th century Southern Gothic author penned the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and the novel Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
What was UNL’s original mascot?
The Bugeater