All Things Durham
This Durham may be bigger, more famous, and home to a basketball powerhouse, but it is missing one important thing... DCS!
What is Durham, North Carolina?
This 1982 Survivor song became forever associated with the boxing film Rocky III.
What is Eye of the Tiger?
This famous landmark can grow several inches taller during the summer months.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
What is Runaround Pond?
Name the famous tiger who said this upon looking at himself in the mirror, "I've found somebody just like me. I thought I was the only one of them."
Who is Tigger?
This administrator said that if their personality were a snack it would be a Snickers.
Who is Ben?
This university was founded prior to the Aztec Empire.
What is Oxford University?
This is the character used for the logo at the only gas station/ convenience store in the town of Durham, ME.
Who is Tigger?
In Life of Pi, this tiger's name is the same as the name of the man who was supposedly responsible for a notorious 19th-century shipwreck.
Who is Richard Parker?
This animal is known for having fingerprints so similar to humans that they can confuse investigators.
What is a koala?
In the summer of 1973, this mysterious creature was reported by Durham numerous residents, prompting police and game wardens to search the area. Investigators even found and cast tracks that were described as being about five inches wide and "definitely not a bear track."
What is the Durham Gorilla?
This poem by Rudyard Kipling features a character named Shere Khan, a tiger who rules the jungle with fear.
What is The Jungle Book
This ancient Egyptian ruler lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.
This Durham cemetery, where a young Stephen King once camped and explored with a childhood friend, inspired the fictional cemetery where Mike Ryerson encounters the undead in 'Salem's Lot.
What is Harmony Grove Cemetery?
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night" opens this famous poem by this English poet.
Who is William Blake?
This US president kept a pet raccoon in the White House that was originally intended to be Thanksgiving Dinner.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
PS. The Raccoon was then named Rebecca.