Known for using pool noodles to demonstrate topics in this course, this professor also recently authored a textbook.
Who is Paul Steif?
100
Known most famously for her primatology work with chimpanzees, she led many jungle and forest conservation efforts.
Who is Jane Goodall?
100
How many rivers meet at Point State Park?
Three (3)
100
The Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with this to form Carnegie Mellon University.
What is the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research?
100
This mathematics concept allows you to find the length of a triangle's hypotenuse.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
200
This professor sometimes teaches Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, but is commonly known for his true passion — Culinary Mechanics.
Who is Phil LeDuc?
200
This physicist and chemist pioneered research on radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
200
This Pittsburgh baseball team plays at PNC Park, recently rated most beautiful ballpark in America.
Who are The Pirates?
200
A passion for education wasn't the only thing Carnegie and Mellon shared. What other thing did they have in common?
Both are named Andrew.
200
This ocean is the deepest body of water in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
This design professor does research in DNA origami and microsystems.
Who is Rebecca "Bex" Taylor?
300
She is regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of computers beyond conducting simple calculations and was the first person (man or woman) to write an algorithm to perform more than simple computations.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
300
Adding these to any salad make it a "Pittsburgh Salad."
What are french fries?
300
Carrying hundreds of layers of paint and once considered the most painted object in the world, what happened to CMU's legendary Fence in 1993?
It collapsed/broke.
300
This is the translation of the United States' motto: "E pluribus unum."
What is "out of many, one"?
400
Having previously taught heat transfer and thermodynamics, this professor once lost a $10,000 donated sample of silicon from MIT.
Who is Jonathan Malen?
400
Commonly known for her role in developing modern nursing and nursing reform, she was also a renowned statistician.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
400
This movie, starring Christian Bale and Gary Oldman, had filming locations in New York, Los Angeles, India, and of course, Pittsburgh.
What is The Dark Knight Rises?
400
Open from 1906 to 1973, the women's college at CMU named after this woman.
Who is Margaret Morisson (Carnegie's Mother)?
400
This is the name of Jane Austen's romance novel about protagonist Elizabeth Bennet.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
500
This Canadian professor has taught at least 5 undergraduate courses and leads the nanoscale transport phenomena laboratory (NTPL).
Who is Alan McGaughey?
500
After graduating from CMU with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, she was the second American woman into space and was a mission specialist on NASA's Challenger.
Who is Judith A. Resnik?
500
This iconic children's TV show, starring the best neighbor we've all had, was filmed in Pittsburgh.
What is Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?
500
The first Ph.D. awarded at Carnegie Institute of Technology was in 1919 to Mao Yisheng in this field of study.
What is Civil Engineering?
500
Quarks, a type of subatomic particles, exist as these 6 different types.
What are up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charmed?