They Boil Makers
Definitely Not Math
Biblical Connect-Four
Has Food Science Gone Too Far?
Geography
100
Recently attending Purdue as an online student in health and human services, Millie Bobby Brown is well known for her casting in this Netflix science fiction series
What is Stranger Things?
(Purdue gear being hip and cool, 1980, colorized)
100
From the Arabic جبر meaning 'reunion of broken parts' or 'bonesetting', this subject is the unifying thread of all mathematics
What is algebra?
100
Isaiah, Jeremaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel
What is major prophets?
100
Contrary to its name, this Chinese dish is only preserved for several weeks and months at a time in clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls; it still looks and tastes pretty rotten for all that work
What is century egg?
100
This region is the world's largest desert, technically
What is Antarctica? (source: NASA)
200
Receiving his PhD from Purdue in Food Science, Robert C. Baker was known as the "George Washington Carver of poultry", inventing this product more than 15 years before McDonald's did
What is chicken nugget?
200
Denoted by the symbol "φ", this quantity can be observed in nature and used in art, whether as rectangles or in spirals; it doesn't cost as much as it sounds
What is the golden ratio?
200
Death, Famine, War, and Conquest
What is Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
200
Astronaut ice cream (or space ice cream) is ice cream that has undergone this; wouldn't it just be called cream if there's no ice?
What is freeze-drying?
(Apparently none of the surviving astronauts remember having this in space)
200
Established in 1926, this famous 2,448-mile road runs from Illinois all the way to California and is featured in popular culture such as in Disney Pixar's Cars and even has a song named after it
What is Route 66?
(fun fact: there's a musical road in an old portion of the highway that plays America the Beautiful when you drive over it)
300
Leading the Event Horizon Telescope team, Katie Bouman (daughter of current ECE professor Charles Bouman) helped take the first image of these
What is black holes?
(her dad could be your prof one sem and you would HATE it)
300
During Italy's renaissance period, mathematicians would often participate in this against each other; they were a lot less violent than you'd expect
What is duels?
300
Barnabas, John Mark, Timothy, and Luke
What is Paul's travelling companions?
300
Sometimes referred to as "the Mexican truffle", huitlacoche is a fungal smut that affects this cereal grain crop; apparently it tastes like a sugary vanilla truffle
What is corn?
(you ever asked a midwesterner what corn is?)
300
The Malagasy people of this African country, strangely enough, are more ethnically related to the Austronesian peoples than other groups; even their languages very similar!
What is Madagascar?
(because boats)
400
George H. Goble of Purdue ECN holds the fastest record for doing this with charcoal and liquid oxygen, awarding him the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996
What is lighting a grill?
(does this place look familiar?)
400
Sexagesimal, also known as base-60, is counting system used by this ancient civilization and is still used in different contexts such as in time and measurement
What is Babylon? (Sumer is also acceptable)
(Fun fact: you can count to 12 on a single hand by counting your finger joints/segments with your thumb)
400
Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer, Abaddon/Apollyon
What is the named angels of Bible?
400
The biggest challenge eating fermented Baltic Sea herring (or Surströmming in Swedish) is vomiting only after the first bite; it's so putrid that the pressurized cans are banned in this mode of transport
What is airplanes?
400
Because of its colonial history, France's landmass is larger than it looks; it even shares its largest land border with this country
What is Brazil?
(imperialism amirite)
500
The US' first female engineering professor as well as the first industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist, Lillian Gilbreth of the I/O department mothered 12 children; her life becoming the basis of this book-turned-film
What is Cheaper by the Dozen?
(that's the guy from three amigos!)
500
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coined this metric to assess the severity of storms and extreme weather; all you have to do is check if they're closed
What is Waffle House Index?
500
Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Phrath
What is Rivers of Eden?
500
Casu martzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese with this unique ingredient that promotes an "advanced" level of fermentation and provides a very soft texture; as a result of this feature, its is banned in both the EU and the US
What is maggots?
(Challenge for a chemist/food scientist/biologist/chemE: can you isolate/reproduce those digestive enzymes so we can legally have this cheese? k thx)
500
Until the 2020 eruption, Vulcan Point was one of the largest third order recursive islands (that is, an island inside a lake inside an island inside a lake inside an island) in this southeast Asian country
What is the Philippines?
(not fun fact: it rained ash for a while when the volcano erupted and my cousins weren't having it)