Q 01/05

A UIC computer lab produced the animated attack plan shown in a pilots' briefing in which 1970s science fiction film?

A) Capricorn One

B) Star Wars

C) Buck Rogers

D) Moonraker

Answer · why

B) Star Wars

Star Wars needed a display of the Death Star trench, so artist Larry Cuba animated it at UIC with the lab's GRASS graphics language.

Q 02/05

Adrian Smith, a 1969 UIC architecture graduate, designed which record-breaking skyscraper that opened in 2010?

A) Burj Khalifa

B) Taipei 101

C) Petronas Towers

D) Shanghai Tower

Answer · why

A) Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa has a petal-shaped plan inspired by the spider lily flower, one of Smith's major contributions to the design.

Q 03/05

The University of Illinois's 1946 Chicago campus, nicknamed 'Harvard on the Rocks', sat on which lakefront landmark?

A) Northerly Island

B) Soldier Field

C) Navy Pier

D) Promontory Point

Answer · why

C) Navy Pier

Navy Pier housed the two-year campus along a single corridor half a mile long, shared with a police traffic division and military units.

Q 04/05

In which horror film is the heroine a UIC graduate student researching an urban legend at Cabrini-Green?

A) Hellraiser

B) Flatliners

C) Child's Play

D) Candyman

Answer · why

D) Candyman

Candyman moved Clive Barker's short story from Liverpool to Chicago, and the crew spent three days filming at the real Cabrini-Green homes.

Q 05/05

Which birds of prey have nested on a ledge near the top of UIC's University Hall since the late 1990s?

A) Peregrine falcons

B) Red-shouldered hawks

C) Great horned owls

D) Cooper's hawks

Answer · why

A) Peregrine falcons

Peregrine falcons nest on the tower's 28th-floor ledge, where the female, Rosie, became popular enough to get her own webcam and newspaper coverage.