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100

This physics faculty member was once featured in a television show.

Who is Richard Taylor?

100

This physicist was the first American woman to reach space.

Who is Sally Ride?

100

An incorrect ballad.

What is a wrong song?

100

The full sentence abbreviated by the word laser.

What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?

100

"A Star Wars Story" is the subtitle of this 2016 release.

What is Rogue One?

200

This physics professor has a prolific social media presence with over 25,000 followers.

Who is Yvette Cendes?

200

Andrea Ghez received a Nobel Prize for her work imaging this astronomical object.

What is Sagittarius A*?

200

Almost every 365 days.

What is nearly yearly?

200

This is the outermost layer of the Sun.

What is the corona?

200

In 2023 Kevin Costner wrangled a Golden Globe Award for his role as John Dutton on this series.

What is Yellowstone?

300

These four famous physicists have gargoyles adorning Willamette Hall.

Who are Maxwell, Curie, Einstein, and Newton?

300

This astrophysicist was instrumental for the discovery of Pulsars, who controversially was not nominated for the 1974 Nobel Prize for this discovery.

Who is Jocelyn Bell?

300

The only tibia.

What is a lone bone?

300

This number is the value of the Reduced Plank Constant.

What is 1.054×10−34 J⋅s?

What is 6.582×10−16 eV⋅s?

300

This is the year that famous movie… Frozen came out.

When is 2013?

400

The atrium in Willamette Hall is named after this mathematician and University provost.

Who is Paul Olum?

400

There is a movement to name the unit of momentum after this physicist.

Who is Emmy Noether?

400

A surgeon who oversees your exams.

What is a doctor proctor?

400

The amount of bananas that you would have to eat at once to kill you from potassium 40 radiation poisoning, which is equivalent to the lethal dose of 5 sieverts.

What are 50 million bananas?

400

“Bohemian Rhapsody" earned him an Oscar for his "mercurial" performance.

Who is Rami Malek?

500

This is the place where UO's first observatory was built.

Where is Skinner Butte?

500

The unit for two-photon absorption cross-section is named after this German physicist.

Who is Maria Goeppert Mayer?

500

Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency.

What is cheese expertise?

500

Minkowski space is a four-dimensional space consisting of three-dimensional Euclidean space and which other quantity?

What is time?

500

This actor's relaxation technique of humming & chest thumping made it into a scene of "The Wolf of Wall Street".

Who is Matthew McConaughey?