Sports
This athlete won eight gold medals in a single Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, a record that still stands.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing northward through eleven countries before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
This organ produces insulin in the human body.
What is the pancreas?
This is the name of the University of Alberta's student newspaper, one of the oldest student publications in western Canada.
The year that Canada officially became a country
What is 1867?
This ancient Greek Olympic event involved throwing a spear for distance and accuracy and was considered essential training for warfare. The modern version of this event still bears the Greek name.
This is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres — northern, southern, eastern, and western.
In Greek mythology, this Titan was condemned to hold up the sky for eternity.
Who is Atlas?
This is the name of the University of Alberta's downtown location, which contains offices and the Faculty of Extension
What is Enterprise Square?
The last province to join Canada. Not a territory.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This is the term in golf for scoring three under par on a single hole.
What is an albatross or double eagle?
This country was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
What is Ukraine?
This is the only country in the world with a non-rectangular flag.
What is Nepal?
This is the name of the research institute at the University of Alberta that is one of the world's leading centres for artificial intelligence research, producing graduates who have gone on to shape the global AI industry.
What is Amii?
This individual, born in France in the late 1560s is responsible for building a fort and settlement on the shores of the St Lawrence, around 1608, in the location that later became Quebec City.
Who is Samuel De Champlain?
This is the number of times that Wayne Gretzky scored over 200 points in a season
What is five?
This mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world at over 7,000 kilometres.
What are the Andes?
This experiment was so disturbing it had to be shut down after just six days when student guards began psychologically tormenting student prisoners.
What is The Stanford Prison Experiment?
What is Diane and Irving Kipnes Health Research Academy?
This is Canada's oldest national park
What is Banff National Park?
This is the only team in NFL history to finish a complete season undefeated and win the Super Bowl, doing so in 1972.
What is the Miami Dolphins?
This country contains a national park with towering sandstone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar, and which formed through a process of differential erosion over 300 million years.
This is the term in economics for a market where there is only one buyer, giving that buyer enormous power over suppliers.
What is monopsony?
This is the only UASU President who served as Premier
Who is Peter Lougheed?
The Persons Case of 1929 ruled that women were legally "persons" under Canadian law. These are the five Alberta women who brought the case forward.
Who are The Famous Five — Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards?