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100

This property of a material describes its ability to return to its original shape after a load is removed, and is the foundation of Hooke's Law.

What is elasticity?

100

USF SWE's 2025-26 President

Who is Ayla?

100

This Charli XCX album, whose acid-green aesthetic took over the summer of 2024, became the defining soundtrack of a season of self-indulgence.

What is Brat?

100

Dating back to the early 2000s, it's what FOMO stands for

What is "Fear Of Missing Out?"

100

A brand of blue jeans, or a cowboy in charge of saddle horses

What is wrangler?

200

In electrical engineering, this circuit element opposes changes in current by storing energy in a magnetic field, and has an impedance of jωL in the frequency domain.

What is an inductor?

200

USF's SWE-board is made up this many various engineering students, each holding different roles and responsiblities relating to the organization's operation. 

What is 15? (Pres., VP, Treasurer, Secretary, 2 PD, 2 Events, 2 Fundraising, Marketing, Outreach, Mentorship, EXPO, GradSWE)

200

Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, which explored themes of infidelity and Black womanhood, featured the hit single "Hold Up."

What is Lemonade?

200

It can mean to become independent of someone or something, or what new fathers often do in the hospital delivery room

What is "Cut the Cord?"

200

The name of this cold region is from the Greek for "of the bear."

What is arctic?

300

In control systems engineering, this type of controller adds a term proportional to the integral of the error signal over time, eliminating steady-state error that a purely proportional controller cannot correct.

What is an integral (I) controller? (PI or PID controller acceptable)

300

During the fall semester, USF SWE hosted an ATS Proof Your Resume workshop, with these companies/ organizations attending.

Who are Honeywell, Stantec, Duke Energy, Raytheon, Accenture, and Center for Career and Professional Development.

300

This 2019 film became the highest-grossing movie of all time, surpassing Avatar, with over $2.79 billion at the box office.

What is Avengers: Endgame?

300

It follows "jack of all trades" to describe someone who can do many things but not particularly well

What is "Master of None?"

300

The space where your upper lip comes to two points gets this two-word name that mentions a love god

What is your cupid's bow?

400

In fluid mechanics, this equation derived from Newton's second law relates pressure, velocity, and elevation along a streamline in steady, incompressible, inviscid flow — and is essentially a statement of conservation of energy.

What is the Bernoulli equation?

400

USF's SWE can be found under the name @usfswe on instagram, with the first post made in this year.

What is 2015?

400

This Oscar-winning 2020 film was the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture, directed by Bong Joon-ho.

What is Parasite?

400

A serious incident on April 14, 1970 led to this 5-word phrase being used humorously for less serious situations

What is "Houston, we have a problem?"

400

A government crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 took place in this square.

What is Tiananmen Square?

500

In electrical power engineering, this type of transformer connection — using three single-phase transformers with one side in a triangle configuration and the other in a star — is the most common arrangement in three-phase power distribution systems.

What is a delta-wye transformer connection?

500

As of April 23rd, SWE has this many official members on BullsConnect (range of 50 accepted).

What is 661?

500

Chappell Roan sparked controversy in March 2026 when the parents of this actress's 11-year-old daughter accused the pop star of sending a security guard to confront the child after she walked past Roan's hotel table.

Who is Jude Law?

500

This phrase meaning a commotion over something little predates the Shakespeare title.

What is "much ado about nothing?"

500

Herodotus said this river originated near Feneos in Greece; Dante placed it in the fifth circle

What is the River Styx?