University of Minnesota
CSE
STEM
Halloween
Miscellaneous
100

Name 3 Residence Halls at the UMN Twin Cities. (Not apartments!)

What is Centennial, Territorial, Frontier, Pioneer, Middlebrook, Comstock, Sanford, or Bailey?

100

Name the 1 credit course all CSE students must take.

What is CSE 1001 First Year Experience?

100

This precious metal has the chemical symbol "Au."

What is gold?

100

People traditionally go door-to-door asking for candy using this phrase.

What is "trick or treat"?

100

This animal is known as man's best friend.

What is a dog?

200

Name the five University of Minnesota campuses.

What are Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester, and Twin Cities?

200

Name eight of the twenty majors in CSE.

What is Aerospace engineering and mechanics, Astrophysics, Biomedical engineering, Bioproducts and biosystems engineering, Chemical engineering, Chemistry, Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Computer science, Data science, Earth sciences, Electrical engineering, Environmental engineering, Environmental geosciences, Geoengineering, Industrial and systems engineering, Materials science and engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical engineering, Physics.

200

The name of the process by which plants convert sunlight into food. 

What is photosynthesis?

200

This famous monster, created by Mary Shelley, is often mistakenly called by the name of his creator.

Who is Frankenstein's monster?

200

The instrument that Sherlock Holmes famously plays.

What is the violin?

300

What must students do to the Goldy statue outside Coffman Memorial Union in order to make a wish?

Why must you rub his teeth?

300

This University of Minnesota lab is named after the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River. 

What is the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory?

300

This is the most abundant gas in the Earth's crust.

What is oxygen?

300

This famous movie features a witch named Winifred Sanderson and her two sisters.

What is "Hocus Pocus"?

300

What is the world's longest river?

What is the Nile?

400

Although Goldy is typically dubbed a gopher, what animal is our mascot actually modeled after?

What is a 13-lined ground squirrel?

400

The U of M’s CSE hosts a chapter of this national honor society that recognizes academic excellence in engineering.

What is Tau Beta Pi?

400

This scientific law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

What is the law of conservation of energy?

400

This is the most popular candy given out on Halloween in the United States.

What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?

400

The only U.S. state with a one-syllable name.

What is Maine?

500

What year was the University of Minnesota founded?

What is 1851?

500

This famous computing pioneer, known as the "father of supercomputing," studied at the University of Minnesota.

Who is Seymour Cray?

500

You know what to do........

d/dx[(x/5)*(ln(2/x))]

What is (1/5)[ln(2/x) - 1]?

500

The word "witch" comes from the Old English "wicce," which means this.

What is "wise woman"?

500

This famous ancient city was buried under volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

What is Pompeii?