Yale Trivia
Women were first admitted to Yale College in this year
What is 1969?
The Star-Spangled Banner was composed during the British bombardment of this location.
What is Fort McHenry?
This youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces was founded Dec 20, 2019.
What is the U.S. Space Force?
This 321-foot tall building was recently demolished in Atlantic City.
What is Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino?
Engineering students at Purdue University developed a licking machine to determine that it takes 364 licks to reach the center of this popular candy.
What is a tootsie pop?
Originally known by this name, Yale University was renamed in honor of Elihu Yale after his financial contributions to the university.
What is The Collegiate School?
The actual targets of interest in the search for the Titanic ship led by Robert Ballard
What are the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion?
“Don’t give up the ship” were the dying words of this War of 1812 Navy captain.
Who was James Lawrence?
This weapon replaced the M249 SAW.
What is the M27 IAR?
This branch of the U.S. government has a basketball court in their building, affectionately nicknamed “the highest court in the land”
What is the Supreme Court?
Rather than having a famous individual as a namesake these two residential colleges are named for Connecticut towns where Yale was briefly located
What are Branford and Saybrook?
The first successful wartime attack by one of these occurred by the Hunley off Charleston in 1864.
What is a submarine?
In a cyber attack on this terrorist organization’s English - language magazine, MI6 replaced instructions to make an improvised explosive device with a cupcake recipe.
What is Al - Qaeda?
They recently took the spot for richest person in the world.
Who is Elon Musk?
In total there are 26 minutes of brooding silence in this 2008 vampire drama.
What is Twilight?
The Harvard Yale rivalry began with a competition in 1852 of this sport
What is rowing?
On July 21, 1861, with Manassas Junction to the south, Gen. McDowell's Union forces sent a decoy force and a flanking force toward Confederates at this waterway, which gave its name to the battle
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This ship is the only ship to have been captured by enemy combatants.
What is the USS Pueblo?
This Russian lawyer and opposition leader is currently being jailed by the Russian government.
Who is Alexei Navalny?
This director helped fake the Apollo Moon Landings...allegedly.
Who is Stanley Kubrick?
Bright College Years takes its tune from this old composition
What is die Wacht am Rhein?
The oldest weapon in current use by the United States Armed Forces.
What is the Mameluke sword?
This Navy weapons system can shoot up to 75 rounds per second or 4500 rounds per minute.
What is Phalanx CIWS or Sea-wiz?
The US Coast Guard seized 120,000 lbs of cocaine in 2020 worth this much money.
What is 1.8 billion dollars? (Will accept between 1.5 and 2.5 billion dollars)
Known for his iconic role in the Star Wars movies, this actor was an 0341 in the USMC.
Who is Adam Driver?