Water Facts Pt. 1
Water Facts Pt. 2
Smith Water
Smith Fun Facts
Tea Fun Facts
100

What is the chemical formula for water?

What is H2O?

100

What is the largest ocean on Earth?

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

Where does Smith College's water come from?

Where is the Ryan-West Whately and Mountain Reservoirs?

100

How many students went to Smith when they first opened in 1875?

How many is 14?

100

Where did tea first originate from?

Where is Southwest China?

200

What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?

What is 71%?

200

What is the longest river in the world?

What is the Nile River?

200

About how many acres of land surrounding Northampton’s water reservoirs are protected by the Department of Public Works?

How many is 3,900 acres?

200

Smith College was the first women’s college in the U.S. to offer what undergraduate degree?

What is Engineering?

200

What kind of tea typically requires a hotter temperature to brew?

What is black tea?

300

What temperature does water freeze in Fahrenheit?

What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit?

300

How long can a human go without drinking water?

How long is a week?

300

Where is the plant that treats Northampton’s drinking water located?

Where is Mountain Street? Where is Haydenville?

300
What house did Sylvia Plath live in?

What is Lawrence House?

300

What plant does all tea come from?

What is Camellia sinensis?

400

What percent of the Earth's water is considered fresh?

What is 3%?

400

About how much water does the average person in the U.S. use per day?

How much is 82-100 gallons?

400

How does our drinking water get cleaned at the filtration plant?

How does the clarifier remove coarse particles? How does the activated carbon remove fine particles and organic acids? How does sodium hypochlorite disinfect the water?

400

What is the most haunted house on campus?

What is Sessions House?

400

What tea is named after a real person?

What is Earl Grey?

500

What percentage of the human brain is water?

What is 73-75%?

500

How many gallons of water does it take to produce 73,500 sheets of paper?

How many is 1,321 gallons?

500

What two chemicals does Northampton add to adjust pH and help prevent corrosion in water pipes?

What is sodium carbonate and zinc orthophosphate?

500

Why was Northampton initially picked to be the town that Smith was located in?

What is a train station?

500

What is the practice of "reading" tea leaves?

What is tasseography?