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100

The ND men's team in this sport won the national championship in both 2023 AND 2024

What is Lacrosse?

100

An electrical component that stores electric charge, typically constructed of two parallel metal plates

What is a capacitor?

100

The actual definition of Spanish "embarazada," despite looking like the English word "embarassed"

What is "pregnant"?

100

The number of strings on a standard guitar plus the number of valves on a modern trumpet

What is nine?

200

Notre Dame won the co-ed national championship in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025 for this sport

What is Fencing?

200

ND recently switched their heating/cooling system to this type of energy, which constitutes 70% of Iceland's energy consumption

What is Geothermal Energy?

200

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?

200

The brother and sister colleges of Notre Dame

What are Saint Mary's College and Holy Cross College?

300

This is the last year Notre Dame won a national football title, before any of you were born

What is 1988?

300

In Computer Programming, this data type refers to an address in memory

What is a pointer?

300

The third most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and English

What is Hindi?

300

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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

500

This former women's basketball coach led ND to two national championships

Who is Muffet McGraw?

500

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)?

500

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

500

This perfect square is the sum of the first nine perfect cubes, the LCM of 75 & 81, and 11111101001 in binary

What is 2025?