Pakistan History
Pakistan Fun Facts
Guess the Board Member
KU
What is the Word?
100

Which Pakistani captained the national team to a 1992 world cup win and became a prime minister?

Imran Khan

100

What year was Pakistan founded?

1947

100

What is Daud's last name?

Daud

100

Which building holds the largest lecture hall on campus?

Budig Hall

100

This word for a device that lets you see extremely distant objects comes from the Greek for “far” and “to look.”


Telescope

200

Besides Urdu, what language is very present in the national anthem of Pakistan?

Farsi/Persian

200

What is the largest city in Pakistan by population?

Karachi

200

Which two board members had each other for PSA assassins?

Zoya and Haris

200

How many men's national basketball championships have KU won?

4

200

This word for an elegant type of handwriting is from the medieval Latin for "running"

Cursive

300

What does the word Pakistan mean?

Land of the Pure

300

K2 is the 2nd largest mountain in the world, and it is in Pakistan. What does the K stand for?

Karakoram

300

Which board members cat is named Kili?

Jawad

300

What lot is directly east of Gray-Little Hall and Burge Union? Give the lot number. 

Lot 72

300

This word for a self-service restaurant evolved from the Spanish for 'coffee shop'

Cafeteria

400

How many Pakistani prime ministers have finished their 5-year constitutional term?

0

400

What role does Pakistan play in the world cup?

Pakistan makes the world cup soccer balls


400

Which board member speaks Bengali?

Khadijah 

400

What are KU Parking's only two sources of funding?

Permits and Fines/Tickets

400

This massive African animal’s name comes from the Greek for “river” and “horse.”

Hippo

500

Name the first and only Queen of Pakistan

Queen Elizabeth II from 1952-1956

500

What is the name of the world's only fertile desert (partly in Pakistan)?

Tharparkar and/or Thar Desert (located in Sindh province)


500

Which two PSA board members have hearing damage?

Haris and Daud

500

Originally Watkins Memorial Hospital, this building sits on a roundabout. It is next to Watson Library and Blake Hall. What is it called?

Twente Hall

500

First coined in the late 18th century to describe a printing technique that allowed a solid plate to reproduce text efficiently, this word comes from the Greek stereos (“solid, fixed”) and typos (“impression, model”) — literally “a fixed impression”. 

Stereotype