CMU
Pittsburgh
Math and Science
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100

This breed is Scotty, Carnegie Mellon’s official mascot.

What is a Scottish Terrier?

100

This sandwich shop is famous for putting fries and slaw directly inside the sandwich.

What is Primanti Bros?

100

This mathematical constant represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

What is pi?

100

This European capital sits on the River Thames.

What is London?

100

This sitcom is set at the Scranton branch of the paper company Dunder Mifflin.

What is The Office?

200

Carnegie Mellon’s motto translates to this phrase.

What is "My heart is in the work"?

200

This Major League Baseball team plays its home games at PNC Park.

Who are the Pittsburgh Pirates?

200

This SI unit measures force and is defined as kg·m/s²

What is a newton?

200

This ancient civilization built the city of Machu Picchu.

Who were the Inca?

200

This was Pixar’s first-ever feature-length film, released in 1995.

What is Toy Story?

300

The famous prison break scene of this movie was filmed outside the Mellon Institute.

What is "The Dark Knight Rises"?

300

All three of Pittsburgh’s major professional sports teams share these two colors.

What are black and gold?

300

This process allows cells to generate ATP in the presence of oxygen.

What is aerobic respiration?

300

This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English monarchy.

What is the Magna Carta?

300

This video game has sold more copies than any other game in history.

What is Minecraft?

400

This person is a 1948 graduate of Carnegie Mellon and the subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind.

Who is John Forbes Nash?

400

This children’s television host began his career at WQED in Pittsburgh.

Who is Fred Rogers?

400

This term describes the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth.

What is retrograde motion?

400

This treaty officially ended World War I in 1919.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

400

This pop star was born Stefani Germanotta.

Who is Lady Gaga?

500

This is the number of Nobel Prize recipients associated with Carnegie Mellon University.

What is 21?

500

These three rivers meet at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh.

What are the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers?

500

This statistical phenomenon causes extreme values to move closer to the mean in repeated measurements.

What is regression to the mean?

500

This geographic line marks the division between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres at 0° longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

This film became the highest-grossing movie of all time after its 2009 release, before later being overtaken.

What is Avatar?