Random Fun Facts
UBC
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100

This is the only mammal capable of true flight

What is a bat?

100

This UBC sports facility was used as an ice hockey venue during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

What is the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre/UBC Thunderbirds Arena?

100

The plural of “goose” is “geese,” making it an example of this type of plural.

What is an irregular plural?

200

This animal has three hearts and blue blood.

What is an octopus?

200

This museum on UBC’s Vancouver campus houses Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton.

What is the Beaty Biodiversity Museum?

200

A triangle with no equal sides is called this.

What is a scalene triangle?

300

Scotland's national animal is this mythical creature.

What is a unicorn?

300

UBC’s Vancouver campus covers more than approximately this many hectares.

What is 400 hectares?

300

This layer of Earth lies directly beneath the crust.

What is the mantle?

400

This common condiment was once sold as medicine in the 1800s.

What is ketchup?

400

UBC Vancouver has been ranked as the world’s ___ most popular filming location.

What is 9th?

400

This is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres.

What is Africa?

500

This popular candy was originally created as a military ration because it could resist melting.

What are M&M's?

500

UBC’s Okanagan campus officially opened in this year.

What is 2005?

500

This is the name for the change from a solid directly into a gas.

What is sublimation?