CMU
Pittsburgh
People
SASE
Science/STEM
100

This is the dog breed of CMU’s mascot.

What is a Scottish Terrier?

100

This is the neighborhood where CMU’s campus is located.

What is Oakland?

100

This is the name of CMU’s president.

Who is Farnam Jahanian?

100

She is SASE's current marketing director. 

Who is Jenny Zhang?

100

This is the power house of the cell.

What is the mitochondria?

200

This famous language-learning app was co-founded by CMU professor Luis von Ahn.

What is Duolingo?

200

Pittsburgh has more of this than any other city in the world, making it known as the “City of ___.”

What are bridges?

200

This industrialist founded the steel company that built much of America's infrastructure before selling it to the U.S. Steel. CMU’s motto is quoted by him.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

200

This was last week's GBM event (two answers, both accepted). 

What is Kahoot? OR

What is marshmallow tower building?

200

This is the name of a flock of flamingoes.

What is a flamboyance?

300

This is the name of the statue on The Cut.

What is “Walking To The Sky?”

300

This is a neighborhood in the east end of Pittsburgh where CMU students can find many shops, restaurants, and bakeries.

What is East Liberty/Squirrel Hill?

300

This is a contestant from the popular Korean dating show Single’s Inferno.

Who is Heesun Park?

300

He is a SASE icon known for only wearing red shirts.

Who is David Chan?

300

These are the only two elements that are liquid at room temperature (MUST GET BOTH!)

What are mercury and bromine?

400

CMU is the only university in the U.S. where you can earn a degree in this instrument.

What are bagpipes?

400

This is a 42-story Gothic skyscraper known as the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere.

What is the Cathedral of Learning?

400

He is a billionaire hedge fund manager and has a campus building named after him.

Who is David Tepper?

400

This was the location of 2025’s SASE national conference.

Where is Pittsburgh?

400

This scientist is responsible for the exclusion principle which states that two objects may NOT occupy the same space at the same time (THINK CHEM/PHYSICS!!!)?

Who is Wolfgang Pauli?

500

This 19th-century woman's name is on the building that originally served as the "College for Women" at Carnegie Tech.

Who is Margaret Morrison?

500

What is the most frequent bus on Ellsworth Avenue?

What is the 75?

500

He is a CMU alumni who invented Java (programming language).

Who is James Gosling? 

500

The founders of SASE were interns from this company.

What is Proctor and Gamble?

500

Neglecting air resistance, it takes __ minutes to fall from the earth if you dug a hole to the other side (can be ±5 minutes).

What is 42 minutes?