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When is Anne's Birthday?

What is March 5th?

100

SMU was founded this year

1911

100

Traditionally taught in geography classes, these five major bodies of saltwater together make up the world ocean. Name all five.

What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern (Antarctic), Oceans?

100

These specialized shoes worn by ballet dancers allow them to balance and perform on the tips of their toes.

What are pointe shoes?

100

In international ballroom competition, dancers compete in five dances that make up the Latin category. Name all five.

What are Cha-Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, and Jive?

200

How many sisters does Anne have, and what are their names?

What is Two sisters, Alexia and Christina
200

Name all seven SMU Libraries (currently)

What is Fondren, Bridwell, Hamon, Degolyer, Duda, Underwood, Fort Burgwin

200

This scientist became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and is famous for her research on radioactivity and for discovering the elements polonium and radium.

Who is Marie Curie?

200

This Russian composer wrote the music for Swan Lake

Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

200

This artist just released his fourth studio album on February 27th, supported by two singles "I Just Might" and "Risk it All".

Who is Bruno Mars?

300

What is Anne's middle name?

What is Olivia?

300

What quarterback started for the SMU football team 2022-2023?

Who is Tanner Mordecai?

300

This empire, centered in modern Turkey, controlled Constantinople before its fall in 1453.

What is the Byzantine Empire?

300

This ballet company, founded in 1776, is one of the most famous in the world and based in Moscow

What is the Bolshoi Ballet?

300

These dolls with big eyes and sharp little teeth, designed by artist Kasing Lung became a viral collectible trend in 2025

What is a labubu doll?

400

What majors and minors did Anne graduate with?

What is a dance performance major, a statistics major, and a math minor

400

Which mascot did Peruna fatally kick during a 1934 football game

What is the Fordham Ram?

400

Without a calculator, what is 99 x 99?

What is 9801?

400

A structured ballet duet, typically featuring a female ballerina and a male danseur

What is a pas de deux?

400

This is the number of letters in the Greek alphabet, which begins with Alpha and ends with Omega.

What is 24?

500

What is Anne's favorite dance style other than ballet?

What is Argentine Tango?

500

Name one of SMU's presidents other than Jay Hartzell and R. Gerald Turner

Who is Hiram Boaz, Paul Hardin, Robert Hyer, Umphrey Lee, L. Donald Shields, Willis M. Tate, A. Kenneth Pye, Charles Selecman, James Zumberge

500

This ancient wonder of the world, built in the 3rd century BCE, was a massive statue of the sun god Helios that once stood at the entrance of the harbor on the Greek island of Rhodes.

What is the Colossus of Rhodes?

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This influential choreographer, often called the father of American neoclassical ballet, co-founded the New York City Ballet in 1948 and created works such as Serenade, Agon, and Jewels.

Who is George Balanchine?

500

This theorem states that under regularity conditions, the maximum likelihood estimator is asymptotically normal with variance equal to the inverse Fisher information.

What is the asymptotic normality of the MLE (or the Fisher Information Theorem)?