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100

What is the chemical formula for water?

What is H₂O?


100

Who is the current quarterback of the SMU Mustangs?

Who is Kevin Jennings?

100

Who is known as the “King of Pop”?

Who is Michael Jackson?


100

What is the largest ocean on Earth?

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

What is the name of SMU’s live mascot?

Who is Peruna?

200

Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

What is Mars?

200

In which athletic conference does SMU currently compete?

What is the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)?

200

Which Kendrick Lamar song won five awards at the 2025 Grammys, including Record and Song of the Year?

What is “Not Like Us”?

200

Which river flows through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea?

What is the Nile River?
200

In what year was SMU founded?

What is 1911?

300

What is the largest organ in the human body?

What is the Skin?

300

Which SMU football legend won the Heisman Trophy in 1948?

Who is Doak Walker?

300

Which singer released the 2006 album Back to Black?

Who is Amy Winehouse?

300

Which country has more natural lakes than any other country?

What is Canada?


300

What does SMU call its pregame tailgating tradition?

What is Boulevarding?

400

What is the process in which a solid changes directly into a gas without becoming a liquid?

What is Sublimation?

400

Which two SMU running backs formed the famous “Pony Express” backfield?

Who are Eric Dickerson and Craig James?

400

Which band released the album Rumours?

Who is Fleetwood Mac?

400

What is the only country through which both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass?


What is Brazil?

400

What SMU Homecoming variety show began in 1933?

What is Pigskin Revue?

500

What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, including light, can escape?

What is The Event Horizon?

500

In which three years does SMU claim football national championships?

What are 1935, 1981, and 1982?


500

Which 1976 Stevie Wonder album includes “Sir Duke” and “Isn’t She Lovely”?

What is Songs in The Key of Life?

500

Which country borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?

What is Iran?

500

What mascot did Peruna 1 accidentally kill?

Who is Ramses the Fordham Ram?