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WPI Lore and Legends
100

This is what AIAA stands for.

What is American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics?

100

These are the names of all 4 AIAA subcommittees.

What are Model Rocketry, Spacecraft Development Club, UAV, and Jet Engine Project?

100

This is what WPI stands for.

What is Worcester Polytechnic Institute?

100

This is the name of the world's first supersonic passenger airliner.

What is Concorde?

100

This is what will supposedly happen to you if you step on the seal and don't touch the Gompei Statue.

What is "you will not graduate in four years"?

200

This is the name of the AIAA lab workspace.

What is Sagamore?

200

This is the certification you can receive through successfully building and launching a rocket with Model Rocketry.

What is L1?

200

This WPI academic building was very recently renovated.

What is Stratton Hall?

200

This is the name of the most massive and powerful vehicle ever to fly.

What is Starship?

200

This is the name of the dining hall game that starts when one person's drink level drops below the lowest ridge on the cup, and another person drops their cup in another's.

What is DAKA cup stacking?

300

This professor is the AIAA advisor.

Who is Professor Taillefer?

300

This is what UAV stands for.

What is unmanned arial vehicle?

300

WPI's motto is Lehr und Kunst, which translates to this in English.

What is Theory and Practice?

300

This is the name of Blue Origin's sub-orbital rocket.

What is New Shepard?

300

This secret society meets in the building that was formerly the Magnetics Laboratory.

What is Skull?

400

This was the location of the 2024 AIAA Region 1 Student Conference.

What is West Virginia?

400

GOAT1 is the name of this subcommittee's current mission.

What is Spacecraft Development Club (SDC)?

400

This person invented the liquid fueled rocket at WPI.

Who is Robert Goddard?

400

This is the name of the world's largest aerospace manufacturing company.

What is Airbus?

400
This is the name of the mysterious creature that provides all of the meat in DAKA.

What is the DAKA Beast?

500

This is one of the two organizations that merged to form the organization now known as AIAA.

What is The American Rocket Society or The Institute of Aerospace Science?

500

This is the accent color of JEP's Jet Engine.

What is green?

500

This former WPI president is now the director of NASA's JPL.

Who is Laurie Leshin?

500

This kid's toy is one of the lesser-known inventions of NASA.

What is the Super Soaker?

500

This academic building allegedly has a tunnel system below it.

What is Atwater Kent?