Potpourri (General Trivia)
This country is the largest by land area in the world.
What is Russia?
This professor has done theoretical, experimental, and educational research
This online tool helps California community college students determine how their courses transfer to California State Universities (CSUs) and University of California (UC) schools.
What is assist.org?
This astronaut said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This popular TV personality and mechanical engineer is known for his educational science show aimed at kids, where he famously says, "Science rules!"
Who is Bill Nye the Science Guy?
This planet is the hottest in our solar system due to its thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide
What is Venus?
This PENG department member has a degree in fine arts.
Who is Maria?
These two local universities are known for their rivalry.
What is UCLA and USC?
Built between 1998 and 2011, this space station has housed humans continuously since Nov. 2, 2000
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
In this sitcom, one character insists on "his spot" on the couch and frequently schools his friends on physics — often with a side of Bazinga!
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This annual event is known as fashion’s biggest night out, held to raise funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute
What is the Met Gala?
Professor Green does numerous things on campus, other than her real job, please name three of those things.
SWE and ENGR club advising, Family Science festival planning, union things, teaching, Rocket team advising.
In 2024, this school was ranked as the Number 1 Public University
What is UC Berkeley?
What is the name of this rocket?
What is the Challenger?
This actor plays astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded on Mars and survives by growing potatoes.
Who is Matt Damon?
his British-American rock band, known for albums like Rumours and hits like "Landslide" and "Go Your Own Way,". Stevie Nicks was a member of this band
What is Fleetwood Mac?
This professor has been to 18 different countries and has plans to visit Antarctica in the next few years.
Who is Prof. Schnurbusch?
This local university is known for its gardens
This project landed the first humans on the lunar surface and returned them safely to Earth.
What is Project Apollo?
In Interstellar, this phenomenon is responsible for time dilation on the planet near the black hole, causing one hour on the planet to equal seven years on Earth.
What is Gravitational Time Dilation?
This COVID-19 vaccine, developed by two biotech companies, was the first to be authorized for emergency use in 2020.
What is Pfizer or Pfizer Bio-NTech Vaccine?
These three professors all enjoy bouldering.
Professors Miller, Green, and Jasso all attended this local university.
What is Cal Poly Pomona (CPP)?
This project was the first U.S. program to put humans in space made 25 flights, six of which carried astronauts between 1961 and 1963
What is Project Mercury?
This 1968 sci-fi classic explores themes of artificial intelligence and evolution through the story of a spaceship and its AI, HAL 9000.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?