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400

Date COVID testing became mandatory to be on campus.

What is January 25, 2021?

400

Term for extra holidays allowed by JHU.

What are Floating holidays?

400

This group was very recently “evicted” from the sixth floor of Bloomberg.

What is the Space Telescope Science Institute?

400

Prof. Brice Ménard and his students launched cameras and other devices more than 16 miles into the Earth’s atmosphere to collect data. It landed on one of these. 

What is a golf course? 

400

This frozen delight, which paved the way for more modern slushies and snow cones, was invented in Baltimore during the Industrial Revolution.

What is a Snowball?

800

This gender has had more severe side effects of Covid-19.

What are males? 

800

The acronyms for family medical leave, sick & safe leave, and short term disability?

What are, FML, SSL, STD?

800

The name of the telescope located in the Maryland Space Grant Observatory on the roof of Bloomberg.

What is The Morris W. Offit Telescope? 

800

This faculty member can be seen walking around Bloomberg in his socks.

Who is Collin Broholm? 

800
The "Baltimore Bullet" Michael Phelps holds this many Olympic medals, the most of all time. 

What is 22? 

1200

The number of continents on which Covid 19 has been detected.   

What is 6?

( Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia—but not in Antarctica. )

1200

The form used to distribute funds for graduate students. 

What is the DGA or Departmental Graduate Aid form?

1200

The name for the glassed-in-room on the 4th floor. 

What is the Fish Bowl? 

1200

This documentary film was produced and directed by Professor David Kaplan. 

What is Particle Fever? 

1200

This district became Baltimore's first historic district in 1964.

What is Mount Vernon? 

1600

The month the first person in Maryland was tested for Covid. 

What is January?

1600

This code denotes "working from home" on our E210. 

What is XO?

1600

The M*A*S*H* star that visited the Bloomberg building.

Who is Alan Alda (Hawkeye)? 

1600

This is the name of Bruce Barnett's poodle. 

What is Chloe? 

1600

In 1816 Baltimore was the first city in the United States illuminating its streets using this gas.

What is Hydrogen Gas?

2000

The name of the JHU associate professor who spearheaded the global tracker. 

Who is Lauren Gardner? 

2000

This grant program offers up to $17,000 toward a down payment and closing costs associated with buying a house in designated city neighborhoods in Baltimore. 

What is The Johns Hopkins Live Near Your Work program? 

2000

Total Square Footage of Bloomberg.

What is 238,000?

2000

This faculty participated on the NPR radio quiz program "Wait Wait...Don't tell me!" in 2011.

Who is Adam Riess?


2000

Located in Baltimore, this is the last Civil War vessel still afloat. 

What is the USS Constellation?