Nobel Prizes
UCONN Buildings
Physics Concepts
Celestial Bodies
Things I Like
100
Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize in 1945 for the discovery of this Principle

What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

100

This famous UCONN arena can seat up to 10,167 Husky fans

What is Gampel Pavilion?

100

This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction

What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?

100

This manmade and operated object orbits Earth at over 17,000 mph

What is the International Space Station (ISS)?

100

This Science Fiction series of novels prominently features a desert setting

What is Frank Herbert's Dune?

200
The 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to James Chadwick, for the discovery of this stable hadron

What is a neutron?

200

This is the building you are inside right now.

What is the Gant Science Complex?

200

This device typically uses crystals, gases, or semiconductors to emit high-energy electromagnetic waves

What is a laser?

200

These are the planets in our solar system

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

200

This survival horror game series prominently features corporate bioterrorism

What is Resident Evil?

300

This physicist won a Nobel Prize in 1923 for his work measuring the elementary charge of electricity

Who is Robert Millikan?

300

This is the newest building on campus

What is Connecticut Residence Hall?

300

This branch of mechanics studies geometrical motion of objects without considering force or energy driving the motion

What is kinematics?

300

This is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy

What is the Andromeda Galaxy?

300

This is the method of creating energy through strong force interactions

What is nuclear fusion?

400

Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize, was famous for this destructive invention

What is dynamite?
400

This building houses the largest lecture hall at UCONN, seating 414 attentive students

What is McHugh Hall?
400

This concept, discovered by Louis de Broglie, is fundamental to Quantum Mechanics

What is Wave-Particle Duality?

400

This celestial occurrence is responsible for the existence of every element heavier than Iron

What is a supernova?

400

This sitcom explores the lives of characters writing/performing a live sketch comedy show set in New York

What is 30 Rock?

500

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, discovering this fundamental particle that governs particle mass

What is the Higgs Boson?

500

This 7-floor building in the heart of campus is named after the youngest president in UCONN history

What is the Homer Babbidge Library?

500

This branch of theoretical physics studies quarks, gluons, and the strong interaction

What is Quantum Chromodynamics?

500
These are the moons of Mars

What are Phobos and Deimos?

500

These are the members of the Beastie Boys, one of my favorite bands

Who are Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA?