Tasteful Teasers
UMAC Understudies
Puzzle Paradox
Science Safari
Epoch Echoes
100

This Japanese dish consists of rice topped with ingredients such as raw fish, vegetables, and seaweed.

What is Sushi?

100

One of the current co-presidents of UMAC (first name only is acceptable). Bonus points if you can name both.

Who are Matthew Lehmann and Tara Cyr?

100

The puzzle involving a 3x3 grid where each row, column, and 3x3 subgrid must contain all the numbers from 1 to 9 without repetition.

What is sudoku?

100

Named after a Greek word meaning "uncuttable," this fundamental particle is the basic building block of all matter.

What is an atom?

100

This Canadian City hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 2010

What is Vancouver?

200

This cocktail, originating from Cuba, is made with white rum, lime juice, sugar, soda water, and mint.

What is mojito?

200

This symbol is used as the "U" in the UMAC logo.

What is Mu?

200

I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can't go outside.

What is a keyboard?

200

This scientist is famous for their equation: E=mc^2.

Who is Albert Einstein

200

This Ukrainian nuclear power plant was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986.

What is Chernobyl?

300

This Canadian city is the Slurpee capital of the world.

What is Winnipeg?

300

This is the first actuarial (ACT) course that most students typically take (Hint: Exam FM).

What is ACT 2120: Interest Theory?

300

The next three numbers in this sequence: 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, 46, ...

What are 64, 85 and 109?

(46+3*6=64; 64+3*7=85; 85+3*8=109)

300

This extremely dark and dense object has immense gravitational pull, and is created when a massive star collapses under its gravity.

What is a Black hole?

300

This American civil rights activist is famous for his “I Have A Dream” speech.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.

400

A Canadian hockey player created this coffee and donut chain, named after himself, in 1964. 

What is Tim Horton’s?

400

UMAC's annual banquet where students meet industry professionals (UMAC's "most prestigious event of the year").

What is The Fish Dinner?

400

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind.

What is echo?

400

This neurotransmitter, often associated with pleasure and reward, plays a crucial role in various brain functions. Some would say that it’s “really dope.”

What is a dopamine?

400

Queen Elizabeth II, who just passed away in 2022, was the longest reigning British Monarch of all time. She held the title for this many years (Hint: It’s a multiple of five).

What is 70?

500

The Canadian dessert named after a small city in British Columbia made of three layers: Graham wafer crumbs on the bottom, icing in the middle, and chocolate on top.

What is the Nanaimo Bar?

500

Every year in the month of February, UMAC sells this tasty food in a fundraiser.

What are Pancakes?

500

The next letter of this pattern: I, V, X, L, ...

What is C?

(Roman Numerals)

500

This water-based animal, native to Australia, is one of the only mammals capable of laying eggs.

What is a Platypus?

500

This treaty marked the conclusion of the First World War.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?