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100

Urban Lights is an exhibit at THIS MUSEUM next to the La Brea Tar Pits.

What is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)?

100

David Duke is a Grand Wizard of THIS famously racist American SECRET SOCIETY.

What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

100

Four years before his tragic death, THIS civil rights LEADER spoke at Janss Steps.

Who is (the Rev. Dr.) Martin Luther King (Jr.)?

100

A person can only go about a week without consuming some form of THIS DRINK. Any person, not just your Yerba Mate-addicted roommate.

What is water?

100

the first African-American to play in the MLB + the castaway protagonist of a novel by Daniel Defoe

Who is Jackie Robinson Crusoe (Kreutznaer)?

200

THIS Frank Gehry BUILDING is the home of the LA Philharmonic, although it carries the name of a different, far more famous entertainer.

What is the Walt Disney Concert Hall?

200

The initials of the secret society in THIS BOOK SERIES by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) stood for Volunteer Fire Department.

What is A Series of Unfortunate Events?

200

THIS is the name of the internet precursor that was "invented" in the basement of Boelter Hall.

What is ARPANET?

200

This is what BPlate and other dining halls call their carbonated juices.

What are spritzers?

200

the star of Rebel Without a Cause + a guy who hunts demons with his brother Sam on the TV show Supernatural

Who is James Dean Winchester?

300

THIS NEIGHBORHOOD hosts a monthly "First Fridays" event for many LA food trucks - including but not limited to Italian ones.

What is Venice?

300

THIS historical SECRET SOCIETY, referenced in National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code, has a compass as one of its symbols. That symbol can actually be seen in front of Boelter Hall.

Who are the Freemasons (Masons)?

300

Maybe it should have been called Fahrenheit 1919! THIS AUTHOR wrote the majority of his most famous book in Powell Library.

Who is Ray Bradbury?

300

Also called a hydroxyl group, a group with THIS CHEMICAL FORMULA turns an organic molecule into an alcohol.

What is -OH? (oxygen and hydrogen)

300

the first African-American mayor of Los Angeles + the star of A Star is Born (2018), American Sniper, and Silver Linings Playbook

Who is Tom Bradley Cooper?

400

THIS Beverly Hills STREET is a shopping area known for being upscale, luxurious, and extravagant. Just don't look for any lassos!

What is Rodeo Drive?
400

THIS real historical SECRET SOCIETY is fictionalized as the main antagonists in most of the Assassin's Creed game series. They were also known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.

What are the Knights Templar?

400

UCLA has stood in for Harvard many times, in movies like Legally Blonde, Angels and Demons, and THIS 2010 David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin MOVIE based on true events, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield.

What is The Social Network?

400

THIS WORD, meaning a mixed drink in a large bowl, comes from the Hindi word for "five" - but you might call it jungle juice.

What is punch?

400

voice of Po from Kung Fu Panda + a haunting psychological thriller about ballet starring Natalie Portman

What is Jack Black Swan?

500

THIS iconic WALKWAY passes by the equally iconic Pantages, El Capitan, and TCL Chinese Theaters on Hollywood Boulevard.

What is the (Hollywood) Walk of Fame?

500

THIS morbid-sounding SECRET SOCIETY for senior undergraduates was founded at Yale in 1832 - you may also see its namesakes on a Jolly Roger.

What is Skull and Bones?

500

THIS is the purported number of asymmetries on Royce Hall's façade.

What is 51 (52)?

500

THIS DRINK is almost as old as civilization itself! We've found containers of it in ancient Egyptian tombs and records of making it in ancient Sumerian tablets.

What is beer?

500

comedic star of Cheaper by the Dozen & the reboot Pink Panther movies + the man who nailed the 95 Theses to a church door, beginning the Protestant Reformation

Who is Steve Martin Luther?

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