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100

The namesake of Hopkins

Who is Johns Hopkins (no points for "John")?

100

UT’s most iconic structure, standing at 307 ft

What is the UT Tower?

100

The number of chambers in the heart

What is 4?

100
The claim to fame of Ada Lovelace

What is being the world's first computer programmer?

100

The most common word in the English language

What is "the"

200

The Hopkins Mascot

What is the Blue Jay?

200

UT Austin's Mascot

Who is Bevo?

200

The name of the sensory system involved with balance and spatial orientation

What is the Vestibular system?
200

The "Father of Computers"

Who is Charles Babbage?

200

The name of the street we are on

What is "Toffenham Drive"

300

The founding year of Hopkins (+/- 5 years)

What is 1876? (1871-1881 will be accepted)?

300

This actor has graduated from UT Austin and has starred in movies like “Interstellar” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” 

Who is Matthew McConaughey?

300

The number of major nerves in the hand

What is 3? (ulnar nerve, median nerve, radial nerve) 

300

A type of loop continues until its condition is false

What is a "while" loop?

300

The animal Ashoke was obsessed with in the second grade

What is a "turtle"?
400

Arjun's undergraduate degrees and minor.

What is Molecular and Cellular Biology, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Space Science and Engineering?

400

The founding year of UT

What is 1883?

400

The strongest muscle in the body by weight

What is the Masseter (Jaw muscle)? (it can regularly deliver 200 pounds of force on the molars when chewing with the Guinness World Record being 975 pounds!)

400

The company that created the CUDA platform, which accelerated AI research

What is Nvidia?

400

The namesake of the city we are in

What is the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad?

500

The reason Carol Greider, a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Hopkins, was awarded her Nobel prize

What is the discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that restores telomeres (ends of chromosomes that get damaged with age)?

500

UT’s historic football rivalry against this school is known as the Red River Showdown.

What is The University of Oklahoma?

500

5 major sections of the spine (100 points for each)

What is the Cervical (C1-C7), Thoracic (T1-T12), Lumbar (L1-L5), Sacral (S1-S5), and Coccyx?

500

An example of this is receiving an email asking for your password “to fix your account” that turns out to be an attack.

What is "phishing"?

500

The two sports Arjun participated in through elementary school

What are soccer and swimming?