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100

What are UChicago’s official colors?

White and Maroon

100

What is the name of the dragon in Mulan?

Mushu

100

Which two MLB teams play in Chicago?

Chicago Cubs and Chicago Whitesox

100

What is the term describing a data point that sits far away from the rest of the group?

Outlier

100

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Au

200

What is UChicago’s official mascot?

Phil The Phoenix
200

Chadwick Boseman starred in what 2018 Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler?

Black Panther

200

What Chicago team did Michael Jordan play with in 1994?

White Sox

200

This type of plot shows the distribution of continuous variables.

Histogram

200

Who won the Super Bowl in 2025?

Philadelphia Eagles

300

How many main libraries does UChicago have?

6

300

In the matrix, does Neo take the red pill or the blue pill?

Red

300

This landmark is known as “the bean."

Cloud Gate

300

This Python library is used to store and manipulate DataFrames.

Pandas

300

Guess the song in emojis 

🌸🦄♣️

Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan)

400

How many Nobel Prize winners are there from UChicago?

101

400

In The Hangover, the guys lose track of Doug after a wild night in this city.

Las Vegas

400

This neighborhood was historically the center of Chicago’s Mexican-American community and is known for its murals and political art.

Pilsen

400

This algorithm groups data points based on similarity without using labeled data.

Clustering

400

Guess the song in emojis

🎲😃

Die with a Smile (Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga)

500

What’s UChicago’s official motto (in Latin)?

Crescat scientia; vita excolatur.

English Translation: Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched

500

The famous line “Here’s looking at you, kid” does not appear in the shooting script of this 1942 film.

Casablanca

500

As of 2024, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, how many completed buildings in Chicago stand at least 150 meters (roughly 492 feet) tall?

139

500

This problem occurs when a model performs well on training data but poorly on new data.

Overfitting

500

What is the only US state that does not have a rectangular flag?

Ohio