UVM fun facts
Middle X
Just take the L
Words from Geography
Phun Physics
100

This famous actor attended UVM to study Spanish and then left because he fractured his hip playing basketball

Ben Affleck

100

Adjective meaning close to the actual amount, but not completely exact

Approximate

100

Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect

Bowing & Bowling
100

Hot water springs called geysers take their name from a specific one in this country

Iceland

100

If the universe were to end with a "Big Crunch," this means it would collapse into what big, sucky space object?

Black Hole

200

This psychedelic rock band from Vermont once performed in the Grundle

Phish

200

Poison aka ...

Toxin

200

Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease

Curling & Curing

200

Now a rundown area of any city, it comes from a type of road along which logs were hauled

Skid row

200

What “-ism” is the branch of physics that describes the physical interaction between electrically charged particles?

Electromagnetism

300

What animal was the UVM mascot originally supposed to be?

Camel

300

A compound with 2 atoms per molecule of element No. 8

Dioxide

300

The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible

label & Abel

300

Now looka, I say, looka here! This breed of chicken is named for Livorno, Italy

Leghorn

300

What quantity did Newton assume was identical to mass, but we now know also depends upon velocity?

Inertia

400

DAILY DOUBLE: The sports bra (orginally coined the jockbra) was invented on UVM's campus. In what building this happen in?

The Royal Tyler Theatre

400

A bumper sticker favorite, it means to live together peacefully despite differences

Coexist

400

Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way

Carousel & Carouse

400

Meaning to break up into smaller units, this term comes from a geographic region that was divided in the 19th & 20th centuries

To Balkanize

400

Who first suggested that particles would have antiparticles?

Paul Dirac

500

In the 1800s, there was a student protest about what being on the Waterman Green?

Goats

500

Bosley regrowth products contain this topical vasodilator

Minoxidil

500

A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete

Clement & Cement

500

Ready to hit the spa? Then let's head to the town it's named for in the Ardennes in this European country

Belgium

500

Which field of math is named for a mispronunciation of an Arabic phrase meaning "reunion of broken parts"?

Algebra, from al-jabr