ND Athletics
The ND men's team in this sport won the national championship in both 2023 AND 2024
What is Lacrosse?
An electrical component that stores electric charge, typically constructed of two parallel metal plates
What is a capacitor?
The actual definition of Spanish "embarazada," despite looking like the English word "embarassed"
What is "pregnant"?
The number of strings on a standard guitar plus the number of valves on a modern trumpet
What is nine?
Notre Dame won the co-ed national championship in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025 for this sport
What is Fencing?
ND recently switched their heating/cooling system to this type of energy, which constitutes 70% of Iceland's energy consumption
What is Geothermal Energy?
This dormant volcano is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The brother and sister colleges of Notre Dame
What are Saint Mary's College and Holy Cross College?
This is the last year Notre Dame won a national football title, before any of you were born
What is 1988?
In Computer Programming, this data type refers to an address in memory
What is a pointer?
The third most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and English
What is Hindi?
This former mayor of South Bend ran for president in 2020 and formerly served as the head of the Department of Transportation
Who is Pete Buttigieg?
In 2022, Netflix released a documentary about this former Notre Dame linebacker who earned a unanimous All-American honors, detailing his infamous experience with getting catfished a decade earlier
Who is Manti Te'o?
Adding an extra lane to a highway has been shown to often cause more traffic, which is a common example of this seemingly paradoxical phenomenon where increased supply leads to a rise in consumption
What is Induced Demand?
Living nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus, this Norse explorer is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America
Who is Leif Erikson?
Two of the counselors' fun facts from orientation
What are two of the following:
Ally: has a dog named "Irish"
Bela: was an impromptu poetry state champion
Carmela: plays the ukelele
Ciaran: second favorite cereal is Lucky Charms
Dominique: favorite cereal is Lucky Charms
Eliana: played basketball for her country
Ian: has two patents
Isa: has two pets
Jack: saw a bear while backpacking in Canada
Maria: plays tennis
Max: turtle died after two weeks
Roy: can give the day of the week of any date
This former women's basketball coach led ND to two national championships
Who is Muffet McGraw?
These types of chemicals, which were commonly used as refrigerants and aerosols, were phased out in the 80s and 90s for causing the hole in the ozone layer
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Five of the twelve official languages of South Africa
What are five of the following: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Sepedi, Tswana, Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, Ndebele, South African Sign
This perfect square is the sum of the first nine perfect cubes, the LCM of 75 & 81, and 11111101001 in binary
What is 2025?