VWU Knowledge
This is the name of the VWU Science Building.
What is Greer Environmental Sciences Center?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This artist released the hit album 1989 and is known for songs like "Shake It Off" and "Anti-Hero."
Who is Taylor Swift?
This U.S. landmark was a gift from France and represents freedom and democracy.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This river flows through Brazil and is the second longest in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the name of our university's President.
Who is Scott Miller? (Will accept DR. Miller, or anything similar to these two).
This is the term for animals that are active during the night.
What is nocturnal?
This wizarding school is the main setting of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
What is Hogwarts?
This 18th-century conflict between Britain and its American colonies led to the formation of the United States.
What is the American Revolution?
This mountain range, home to Mount Everest, separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This is the building the office of Financial Aid located in.
What is Goodwin?
This branch of biology studies plants.
What is botany?
This animated series features a family living in Springfield, including characters like Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
What is The Simpsons?
This city was famously divided during the Cold War by a wall that symbolized the ideological divide between East and West.
What is Berlin?
This country is both a continent and an island.
What is Australia?
This is the name of the YMCA camp located on our campus.
What is Camp Red Feather?
This physicist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This actor starred as Jack Dawson in Titanic and won an Oscar for his role in The Revenant.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
This series of wars between Christians and Muslims was fought over control of the Holy Land in the Middle Ages.
What are the Crusades?
This U.S. city is nicknamed the "Mile High City" because it is one mile above sea level.
What is Denver
This is the year Virginia Wesleyan College first opened.
What is 1966?
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This R&B artist and actress starred in Dreamgirls and is known for hits like "Single Ladies" and "Halo."
Who is Beyoncé
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This historical document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king and is considered a precursor to modern constitutional law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This country has the most time zones, spanning a total of 11.
What is Russia?