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Boston University
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100

This media conglomerate has as its logo the company's name, written in its founder's handwriting.

What is Disney?

100

This BU landmark can often be spotted covered in spray paint from various student organizations. 

What is BU Rock or Boston University Greek Rock?

100

This font was created as a cost-effective alternative to Helvetica and became the default font for Windows in the 1990s.

What is Arial?

100

This Boston park is the oldest public park in the USA.

What is the Boston Commons?

100

These are the three pillars of Forge, as seen on the slideshow. 

What is Community, Growth, and Professionalism?

200

The trademarked black and white Wi-Fi logo by the Wi-Fi Alliance references this common symbol associated with the ancient Chinese concept of dualism

What is Yin and Yang?

200

This is the largest college at Boston University with over 70 majors and 20 departments. 

What is the College of Arts and Sciences?

200

This invention, created by Johannes Gutenberg, allowed for the development of the first font.

What is the Printing Press?

200

Frederick Law Olmsted designed a chain of green spaces that are called a "necklace" of this type of jewel.

What is an Emerald?

200

This is Forge's UI/UX Designathon.

What is Catalyst?

300

The color that is made if you mix the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo

What is purple?

300

BU sends more students to the national league of this sport than any other college. 

What is Hockey?

300

This font category is characterized by small, decorative strokes or lines attached to the ends of letterforms. 

What are serif fonts?

300

A large brown bear named Blades is the mascot of this Boston professional sports team.

What is the Boston Bruins?

300

Forge's summer-long program that connects students with client-based design projects, including brand design, graphic design, and UX/UI design.

What is FORGE Labs?

400

This basketball player is depicted in the NBA's iconic red and blue logo.

Who is Jerry West?

400

This BU campus landmark is one of three places in the world where a plane can fly over a car driving over a train, travelling over a boat.

What is Boston University Bridge?
400

The ampersand (&) is a combination of these to letters.

What are "e" and "t"

400

Boston is named after a town from this European Country.

What is England?

400

This conceptual matcha shop was the subject of October's UX challenge.

What is Hikari Matcha?

500

Glyphs in Cyrillic, Hebrew, Latin, and more make up Wikipedia’s distinctly unfinished logo of puzzle pieces arranged to resemble this object.

What is a globe?

500

Boston University's motto, as stated on the Marsh Plaza seal. 

What is “Learning, Virtue, Piety?"

500

The latin word "Helvetica," means this. 

What is Switzerland?

500

The biggest art heist in history took place at this Boston Museum.

What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner?

500

This is the program Forge uses to communicate with its members. Make sure to sign up for it before you leave!

What is Slack?