UMD Campus and History
This is the year UMD officially joined the Big Ten Conference.
What is 2014?
This term describes the business strategy of combining two companies, commonly abbreviated as M&A.
What is mergers and acquisitions?
This acronym refers to the primary chip inside every computer responsible for executing instructions.
What is a Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
This video game, where players voted to eject impostors from a spaceship, became a cultural phenomenon during the 2020 pandemic.
What is Among Us?
Who said: "Stay hungry, stay foolish."
Who is Steve Jobs?
This UMD alum founded the athletic apparel brand Under Armour.
Who is Kevin Plank?
Elon Musk did not found this company but joined early and became its CEO.
What is Tesla?
This is the term used to describe a privately held startup that has reached a valuation of over $1 billion.
What is a unicorn?
This viral social media challenge, which raised over $115 million for ALS research, dominated the summer of 2014.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
Who said: "Move fast and break things."
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
This is the number of Testudo statues found across UMD's campus.
What is six?
This tech giant became the first company in history to reach a $1 trillion market cap.
What is Apple?
This is the name of Meta's open-source large language model that rivals ChatGPT.
What is LLaMA?
LeBron James won his first NBA championship with this team in 2012.
What is the Miami Heat?
Who said: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Who is Thomas Edison?
Standing atop Maryland Stadium, you can see this famous Washington, D.C. landmark.
What is the Washington Monument?
This annual gathering of world economic and political leaders takes place in Davos, Switzerland every year.
What is the World Economic Forum?
Shortly after ChatGPT launched in 2023, this European country became the first to ban it over privacy concerns.
What is Italy?
This film about the creation of the atomic bomb won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars.
What is Oppenheimer?
Who said: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This is the name of football coach Mike Locksley's Maryland Dairy ice cream flavor, inspired by the team's motto.
What is "Pop, #LOCKedIn, Drop It"?
At 21 years old, this reality TV star became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2018.
Who is Kylie Jenner?
This company was found guilty of illegally monopolizing the search market by the DOJ in 2024.
What is Google?
This female rapper made history in 2019 as the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album as a solo artist.
Who is Cardi B?
Who said: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose voters."
Who is Donald Trump?