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100
This movie features a little boy who wants a Red Rider BB Gun
What is "A Christmas Story"?
100
Three CIT staff have worked here more than 40 years; name one.
Who is Rick Cochran, Mariann Carpenter, Carl Moravec?
100
On this date Cornell held its first inauguration.
What is October 7, 1868?
100
What is the Uihlein Sugar Maple Research and Extension Field Station?
What is 7?
100
In 2015, the Ithaca Visitors Bureau website told people to visit this destination instead.
What is Key West?
200
This topic is what the 4 main characters in the movie "White Christmas" sing about together on the train ride to Vermont.
What is snow?
200
This year was when the first NetIDs were issued.
What is 1991?
200
Cornell has the only school of this type in the Ivy League.
What is the agricultural school? (CALS or College of Agriculture and Life Sciences also acceptable)
200
Name the nine reindeer featured in the song about the most famous reindeer of all.
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph?
200
Ithaca has at least this many waterfalls within 10 miles of downtown.
What is more than 100?
300
Yukon Cornelius gives this name to the Abominable Snow Monster.
What is the Bumble?
300
This was the original name of the Computing and Communications Center.
What is Comstock Hall?
300
These two Cornell undergraduate schools were the first of their kind established in the U.S.
What are hotel administration and industrial labor relations?
300
The Guiness Book of World Records says this song is the best-selling single of all time.
What is "White Christmas"?
300
This restaurant has been an Ithaca landmark since 1973.
What is Moosewood?
400
The strength of the Grinch grew by this measure when his heart grew 3 sizes.
What is 10 Grinches plus 2?
400
This is the spelled-out name of NYSERNet.
What is New York State Education and Research Network?
400
This year was the last time the university printed its course catalog.
What is 2010?
400
This person sings "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the 1966 animated movie.
Who is Thurl Ravenscroft?
400
Wharton Studios was located in this park.
What is Renwick or Stewart Park?
500
Name the 4 food groups for elves in the movie "Elf".
What are Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn, and Syrup?
500
This person coined the name Cornell Information Technologies in 1988.
Who is M. Stuart Lynn?
500
This Cornell field station was established in 1965 near Lake Placid to study sugar maples.
What is the Uihlein Sugar Maple Research and Extension Field Station?
500
This popular song was originally written for Thanksgiving.
What is Jingle Bells?
500
Ithaca has had an airport since this year.
What is 1912?
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