Hofstadter's Butterfly Garden
Physical Revue Trivia 2025
Made by @sydneeod
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1: Where in Loomis is THIS photo located?
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PER Office
Gravity Group Office
HEPG Office
Undergrad Lounge
2: Where in loomis is THIS photo located?
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1st Floor Elevator
3rd Floor Elevator
2nd Floor Elevator
4th Floor Elevator
3: Where in loomis is THIS photo located?
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1st floor
2nd floor
3rd floor
4th floor
4: Where in Loomis is THIS photo located?
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227
272
276
207
5: Where in Loomis is THIS photo located?
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1st Floor
3rd Floor
2nd Floor
4th Floor
6: Where in loomis is THIS photo located?
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4th Floor Lounge
Grad Lounge
ICASU
Jorge Noronha's Office
7: Which of the following is NOT a title of a paper released on the ArXiV recently?
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“Physicists Getting Less Creative Over Time Is Why This Title Isn't Better”
“A Formula for the Area of a Triangle: Useless, but Explicitly in Deep Sets Form”
“The Eras Tour: Mapping the Eras of Taylor Swift to the Cosmological Eras of the Universe”
“Resolving the Baryon Asymmetry with RATS”
8: Which of the following is NOT a title of a Wednesday 4 pm colloquium that happened this semester?
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“The Discovery of Pulsars - A Grad Student’s Tale,” Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
“Building the Cathedral of Quantum Mechanics,” Michel Janssen
“Making Carbon Magnetic,” Aaron Sharpe
“The Renaissance of General Relativity,” Cliff Will
9: “I worked at a vineyard.”
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Mike Stone
Tim Stelzer
Ben Hooberman
Joaquin Vieira
10: “I never applied for a post-doc but got one anyway.”
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Brian DeMarco
Jorge Noronha
Jun Song
Patrick Draper
11: “I played a physicist in a play.”
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Peter Abbamonte
Paul Quiat
Jeff Fillipini
Katie Ansell
12: “I was the 2004 American Physical Society's Physics Haiku Grand Champion.”
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Paul Selvin
Josh Long
Celia Elliot
Fahad Mahmood
13: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Carl Sagan
Roger Penrose
Tycho Brache
14: When Niels Bohr was knighted in 1947 by the Danish Monarchy, which flower was present on his personally designed coat of arms?
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Marguerite Daisy
Parrot Tulip
Lotus Flower
Dogwood Flower
15: Who was fond of Sanskrit poetry and the Bhagavad Gita, filled with nature metaphors of trees, rivers, and blossoms?
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Richard Feynman
John Bell
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Henri Poincaré
16: Who coined the term “cell” in their work Micrographia (1665)?
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Johannes Kepler
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Robert Hooke
17: Which of the following tree species is NOT found around the entrances of Loomis?
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A
C
B
D
18: Which plant uses a helical coiling pattern governed by differential growth rates and torque generation?
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Tomato
Poison Oak
Hibiscus
English Ivy
19: Which common garden flower uses a passive spring mechanism to fling its seeds outward when dry?
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Geranium
Petunia
Marigold
Poppy
20: What determines the angle at which sunflower heads tilt during the day, as they track the sun’s movement?
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Internal magnetic field detection
Gravitational pull from the Moon
Plant hormone differential across the leaves
Temperature differential across the stem
21: Which animal can see ultraviolet light, giving it the ability to detect floral patterns invisible to humans?
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Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Housefly
22: Which garden critter uses vibrations in the ground to detect predators or rain?
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Beetle Larvae
Ants
Earthworm
Garden Spider
23: Which small mammal must constantly eat due to its extreme heat loss from a high surface-area-to-volume ratio?
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Mole
Shrew
Koala
Hedgehog
24: Which bird uses counter-current heat exchange in its legs to conserve body heat in freezing water?
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Swan
Heron
Penguin
Duck
25: Which animal is believed to navigate using Earth's magnetic field, possibly via spin-dependent chemical reactions in retinal proteins?
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