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RIT's official mascot has this name.
Who is Ritchie?
Known as the load-bearing support of a bridge, this is the name of Tau Beta Pi's official symbol.
What is a trestle?
Rochester is known for this famous dish consisting of, among other things, meat and home fries.
What is the Garbage Plate?
This is what the "STEM" acronym stands for.
What is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics?
Often confused with their eight armed cousins, this animal features eight arms AND two longer tentacles with hooks or teeth.
What is a squid?
RIT's Women's hockey team is recognized as this divison.
What is NCAA Division 1?
These are Tau Beta Pi's official colors.
This is a popular nickname for the city of Rochester.
What is Flower City or Flour City?
Seen in Ursa Minor, this is the name of the north star.
What is Polaris?
This substance is scientifically referred to as "dihydrogen monoxide"
What is water?
This dormitory was renamed to Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry Hall in 2023.
What is Nathaniel Rochester Hall?
This is the year Tau Beta Pi was founded.
What is 1885?
Founded in Rochester, as of 2026 this grocery store chain now has over 114 stores in nine states and the District of Colombia.
What is Wegmans?
Commonly seen in moving vehicles, this is the change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer moving relative to the wave.
What is the Doppler Effect?
Occurring from 1692-1693 in Salem Massachusetts, this was the subject of a series of trials in which twenty people died.
What is a witch?
This was the name of RIT's famously adopted Bengal Tiger cub adopted from the Seneca Zoo in 1963.
Who is Spirit?
Tau Beta Pi was founded this state at Lehigh University by Edward H. Williams Jr.
What is Pennsylvania?
This Rochester based company was famously rhymed with itself in Pitbull's 2011 hit "Give Me Everything".
What is Kodak?
This is the name of the transport tissue that carries water from the roots to the leaves of a plant.
What is Xylem?
This is a fast growing type of wood grown in the Americas often used in flooring, construction, and personal hobbies.
What is balsa?
As of 2019, This was the last recorded number of bricks on campus, rounded to the nearest hundred-thousand.
What is 15,700,000?
Of our ~635,563 lifetime members, 22 have achieved this award given in accordance to the principle: "for the greatest benefit to humankind"
What is the Nobel Prize?
The Genesee river flows through Rochester features three waterfalls. This is a 96-foot waterfall in the center of downtown Rochester.
What is High Falls?
Recognized as discovering penicillin and its curative effect, this scientist's achievement was described as "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease"
In geography, this is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs in a valley created by a former glacier.
What is a Fjord?