UMD Fun Facts
This national landmark is visible from the top of Maryland Stadium.
What is the Washington Monument?
The viral, and sometimes exclusive, toy.
What is Labubu?
This occult board game originated in Baltimore.
What is a Ouija board?
In October of 1926, A. A. Milne published the first of many books inspired by his son and his plush toys that would become childhood classics.
What is "Winnie-the-Pooh"?
Polydactylism is a harmless condition where cats are born with additional of this appendage.
What are toes?
There are 6 of these on campus.
What are libraries and/or Testudo statues?
This KPop Demon Hunters song became the #1 global music video, with almost a billion streams.
What is "Golden"?
These official state sports (individual and team) both involve wielding a stick.
What are jousting and lacrosse?
The first transatlantic phone call was completed in 1926, from London to this American state.
What is New York?
What are tigers?
A minimum of this amount of couples get married in the chapel every year.
What is 100?
After Sydney Sweeney's controversial jeans ad with American Eagle, Gap responded with their own ad, featuring this girl group.
Who are KATSEYE?
This baseball homerun superstar was born here.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This car company, led by a man of the same name, became one of the first to implement the 40-hour week for its factory workers in 1926.
What is Ford Motor Company?
This part of a cat plays an important role in nocturnal navigation.
What are whiskers?
This spot on campus is supposedly cursed. If you step on it, you won't graduate in 4 years.
What is the Point of Failure?
Travis Kelce, who plays this position for the Kansas City Chiefs, proposed to Taylor Swift.
What is tight end?
This is Maryland's official state dessert, known for its numerous thin layers and originating from an island in the Chesapeake Bay.
What is a Smith Island Cake?
This legendary jazz trumpeter, credited with the development of cool jazz, was born in 1926 in Alton, Illinois.
Who is Miles Davis?
This president absolutely loved cats and owned several during his time in the White House between 1861 and 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Originally called Science Hall, this academic building was the sole survivor of the Great Fire that devastated the campus in 1912.
What is Morrill Hall?
The (now former) CEO of this company was caught in his affair with a coworker at a Coldplay concert.
What is Astronomer?
Maryland was named after this queen, the wife of King Charles I.
Who is Queen Henrietta Maria?
This Catalan architect, known for his neo-gothic buildings in Barcelona, died at 73 in 1926.
Who is Antoni Gaudi?
This collective noun for a group of three or more domestic cats originates from Middle English words like "clotter" (meaning "to huddle together") and rhymes with "powder."
What is "clowder"?