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QuantUM Club
Quantum Scientists
Quant-umm, actually
U of M
Quantum
100

This company is the main sponsor of the Qiskit Hackathon at UMich

What is IBM?

100
A famous thought experiment involving a cat proposed by this physicist helps demonstrate the counterintuitiveness of superpositions.

Who is Schrodinger?

100

Though often credited with discovering gravity by getting hit with one, Newton never actually got bonked by this fruit

What is an apple?

100

These are Michigan's official colors

What are maize and blue?

100

The Bloch sphere is a way to represent the state of this quantum object

What is a qubit?

200

He is QuantUM's amazing faculty advisor

Who is Dr. Burgers?

200

This scientist introduced the principle that the more precisely the position of a particle is known, the less precisely its momentum can be known

Who is Heisenberg?

200

Einstein never actually failed this subject in school, despite the myth

What is math?

200
This is the name of the University of Michigan's fight song, often called one of the best in college football

What is "The Victors"?

200

This particle, with zero rest mass, is the force carrier of the electromagnetic field

What is a photon?

300

This was the semester the QuantUM Club was created at UMich

What is Fall 2023?

300

This famous physicist referred to quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance"

Who is Einstein?

300

Napoleon wasn't actually this, though the phrase "Napoleon complex" would make you think so

What is unusually short?

300

This U of M landmark library, opened in 1920, is named after the University's 8th president

What is the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library?

300

In quantum mechanics, measurement causes this sudden change in the wavefunction

What is collapse?

400

This is QuantUM's instagram handle

What is @quant_umich?

400

This physicist's oil drop experiment demonstrated quantization of the electric charge

Who is Milikan?

400
Though Independence day is July 4, the Declaration of Independence was actually signed in this month

What is August?

400
University of Michigan was founded in this year.

When is 1817?

400

This is one of five main ways to implement physical qubits in a quantum computer

What is (one of the following) superconducting qubits, photon qubits, topological qubits, trapped ion qubits, neutral atom qubits?

500

This was the winning project in QuantUM's fall hackathon

What is a truly random Spotify shuffler?

500

This German physicist introduced the idea that the square of the wavefunction represents a probability density, an interpretation that became fundamental in quantum mechanics

Who is Born? (This is the Born rule)

500

Bananas don't actually grow on trees - they grow on this

What is a giant herb?

500

This was one of the two names of the live, caged Wolverines Michigan used as a mascot during the 1927 football season

Who is Biff? or Who is Bennie?

500

This quantum algorithm achieves quadratic speedup in searching an unstructured database

What is Grover's algorithm?