Vanderbilt Facts
What is the name of the Vanderbilt mascot?
Mr. C
What does SWE stand for?
Society of Women Engineers
What is the closest living relative to the T-Rex?
Chicken
A major potential in efforts to engineer environmental sustainability are attempts to breed bacteria that can eat what polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle?
Plastic
Which musical film stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as Galinda and Elphaba?
Wicked
What is the name of the current Vanderbilt quarterback?
Diego Pavia
This past October, the annual SWE conference was held in what city?
Chicago, IL
What is the deadliest creature in the world?
Mosquito
What’s it called when two light atomic nuclei combine to form one heavy nucleus?
Fusion
This famous actor had a rap persona called “Lil’ Timmy Tim” in high school
Timothee Chalamet
When was Vanderbilt founded?
1873
In 1919, the first assembly of women with engineering and scientific backgrounds was held at the University of Colorado including female engineers and what other discipline
Architects
What do you call a group of crows?
A murder
The equation T = F x d x sin(?) will give you which “moment of force” measure that makes an object rotate?
Torque
Which singer is the most Grammy-nominated of all time?
Beyonce (88 nominations)
Which three Commons Houses are the oldest?
East, West, and North
In 1957, what event (in Russia) caused a national explosion of interest in engineering and a doubling of SWE members to about 1,200
The USSR launch of Sputnik
What is a polar bear's skin color?
Black
How fast is the speed of light?
2.99e8 m/s
Celebrity stylist Law Roach is best known for his collaborations with which star?
Zendaya
How many more percent women than men attend Vanderbilt?
12.6%
What is the most popular engineering discipline in the nation for women to major in?
Mechanical Engineering
Belted Galloway and Belgian Blue are breeds of which animal?
Cow
There are five gears connected in a row. If the first gear is rotating clockwise what direction is the fifth gear turning?
Clockwise
Which luxury brand was originally founded as a glove-making company before expanding into other accessories and ready-to-wear?
Hermès