Sports
In what country was the first Olympics held?
What is Athens, Greece? or Athens, Greece
This YA dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins features Katniss Everdeen competing in a deadly televised game.
What is The Hunger Games?
Michigan’s football stadium, “The Big House,” holds over this many fans — the largest in the U.S.
What is 100,000?
This yellow fruit is technically a berry and grows in bunches.
What is a banana?
This flightless bird is the fastest running bird in the world.
What is an ostrich?
What are the 2 national sports of Canada? (must get both)
What are hockey and lacrosse?
This YA fantasy series by Rick Riordan follows a modern-day demigod, son of Poseidon.
What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
This building houses the main campus library and is a popular late-night study spot.
What is the Hatcher Graduate Library?
This hot sauce brand with a rooster on the bottle is originally from California.
What is Sriracha?
This small rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
What is a beaver?
Which Major League Baseball team has won the most championships?
Who are the New York Yankees or Yankees
This fantasy romance series by Sarah J. Maas, often trending on BookTok, begins with Feyre Archeron entering the world of the fae.
What is A Court of Thorns and Roses?
This campus landmark in the Diag is said to curse your exam scores if you step on it.
What is the Block M?
This frozen dessert’s name comes from the Italian word for “frozen.”
What is gelato?
This animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can confuse crime scene investigators.
What is a koala?
Where did Lebron James attend highschool?
Where is Akron, OH?
This novel by Celeste Ng, later adapted into a Hulu series, explores family tensions in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
What is Little Fires Everywhere?
This winter tradition turns the Diag into a colorful mess of spray chalk each spring.
What is Festifall?
This type of sushi roll is wrapped in seaweed on the outside.
What is a maki roll?
This sea creature has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This novel by Khaled Hosseini follows the friendship of Amir and Hassan in Afghanistan before and after the Soviet invasion.
What is The Kite Runner?
In 1870, this woman became the first female student admitted to U-M.
Who is Madelon Stockwell?
This spice, once worth its weight in gold, comes from the dried stigmas of a flower.
What is saffron?
This mammal lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
What is a platypus?