Chemistry at UW
Chemistry Across the World
Old History of UW
New History of UW
Olympics
100

College that the chemistry major is housed.

What is Letters & Science?

100

The chemical that air is primarily made of.

What is Nitrogen (78%)?

100

Year was UW-Madison Founded.

What is 1848?

100

Babcock Dairy's current ice cream flavor for Chancellor Mnookin.

What is Mnookie Dough?

100

City that hosted the 2026 Winter Olympics.

What is Milan, Italy?

200

The director of Chemistry Undergraduate Research

Who is Bryan Wakefield?

200

This element was originally named phlogiston, meaning the element of fire.

What is oxygen?

200

Camp Randall served as a training site for this war.

What is the Civil War?

200

Name of the newest building at UW-Madison.

What is Morgridge Hall?

200

Number of current UW-Madison students participating in the 2026 Olympics.

What is four?

All are on the women's hockey team.

300

Year in which the North Tower opened for classes.

When was Fall 2022?

(It's still not done...)

300

Boiling point of water at the peak of Mount Everest (within 5 degrees).

What is 70 degrees Celsius?

(65-75)

300

The first building was built on the UW-Madison campus.

What is the North Hall?

300

Last UW-Madison team to win an NCAA title.

Who is the women's hockey team?

300

The longest time in the air ever ski jumping.

How long is 10 seconds?

400

Names of 3 of the 4 towers in the Chemistry Building

What are Matthews, Shain, North, and Daniels?

400

This street drug is an enantiomer of a nasal decongestant.

What is methamphetamine?

400

What phrase, meaning to separate the wheat from the chaff, is engraved on a plaque outside Bascom Hall?

What is "Sifting and Winnowing"?

400

Year that the Memorial Union pier collapsed.

When was 2024?

400

Number of athletes that have won gold in both the Winter and Summer Olympics.

What is one (American Eddie Eagan)?

500

Number of Nobel Prizes that have been awarded to current or former UW-Madison faculty and alumni.

What is seventeen (17)?

500
This country is named after an element.
What is Argentina?

(Named after silver)

500

Year that the first Mifflin Street Block party took place.

When was 1969?

500

Commencement speaker at UW-Madison's Winter 2022 undergraduate graduation.

Who is Charlie Berens?

500

The total number of Winter Olympic Games held since 1924.

What is twenty-five (25)?