Halloween Trivia
Historical Figures
Hunter Knowledge
General Science Knowledge
General Knowledge Trivia
100
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
What is a fruit
100
This French emperor is often remembered as a very short but strong ruler
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
100
The floor and building the general biology labs is on
What is Hunter North 8th floor
100
The name of the bond where electrons are shared between 2 atoms
What is a covalent bond?
100
A baby kangaroo is called
What is a Joey
200
True or false: Halloween started as an old Celtic festival called Samhain?
What is True
200
This Roman leader was assassinated by a group of senators, including his friend Brutus, in 44 BC
Who is Julius Caesar
200
The person Hunter College is named after
Who is Thomas Hunter?
200
The part of the heart where blood is pumped into the systemic circulation
What is the left ventricle?
200
The country that came third in this year's world cup is
What is England
300
The fruit or vegetable that was originally carved instead of a pumpkin
What is a turnip
300
This Macedonian king built an empire stretching from Greece to India before dying at age 32
Who is Alexander the Great
300
The floor and building where the swimming pool at Hunter College is located
What is the C floor in the North building?
300
The last electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
What is oxygen?
300
The largest animal to have ever lived on earth is
What is a blue whale
400
The other name for Halloween is
What is All Hallows Eve?
400
This woman won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones
Who is Rosalyn Yalow
400
This Hunter College alum won a Nobel Prize in 1988 for her work developing life-saving drugs is
Who is Gertrude Elion?
400
Lactone
400
Pepsi traded its soda to this country in exchange for 17 submarines and several warships
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)
500
The group of witches are called
What is a coven?
500
This British mathematician led the effort to crack the German Enigma code in World War II
Who is Alan Turing
500
The original name for Hunter College when originally established in 1870 is
What is the Female Normal and High School
500
The universal law of gravitation.
What is F = Gm1m2 / r2 ?
500
Sea otters often do this while sleeping so they don’t drift apart from each other
What is hold hands