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Berkeley Firsts
Berkeley Firsts
The year the UC Rally Committee invented card stunts
What is 1910?
This person stole an injury cart and drove it around Memorial Stadium during a 2006 game against University of Washington
Who is Marshawn Lynch?
Charter Hill is home to this iconic symbol for Cal
What is the Big C?
The last time Cal was in the Final Four
What is 1960?
Marshawn Lynch attended a Super Bowl press conference in 2015 and replied with this phrase every time he was asked a question
What is “I’m here so I won’t get fined”?
In 2012, Professor Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published their work on this, for which they received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
In this year, Cal beat U$C 34-31 in triple overtime at California Memorial Stadium
What is 2003?
Home of Foreign languages department. It is also referred to as the “Freshman Maze”
What is Dwinelle Hall?
Most well known Cal Basketball coach
Who is Pete Newell?
This woman was voted US Female Player of the Year in 2018
Who is Alex Morgan?
In 1984, this person became the first woman to become a licensed architect in California. She was also the architect for many of UC Berkeley's most iconic landmarks
Who is Julia Morgan?
In 2016, this was added outside Moffitt Library to honor Nobel Laureates
What is a bike rack?
The name of the fault line running through California Memorial Stadium
What is the Hayward Fault?
Scored a tournament-record 41 points in the 2006 Men's Basketball Tournament
Who is Leon Powe?
He dropped his major trophy right after receiving it
Who is Collin Morikawa?
The number of elements that have been discovered at UC Berkeley
What are 16 chemical elements?
In 1986, Joe Kapp did this in front of the Seattle media after an embarrassing loss to Washington
What is unzipped his pants?
This landmark on Sproul Plaza is named after a dog
What is Ludwig’s Fountain?
Cal beat this team in the 1959 NCAA Tournament
Who is West Virginia?
He was an NBA All-Star 9 times
Who is Jason Kidd?
This grassroots environmental organization, currently with 3.8 million members, promotes the protection of natural resources across the nation and was founded at UC Berkeley in 1892
What is the Sierra Club?
Cal ended a Big Game drought of 6+ years in these three years
What are 1993, 2002, and 2019?
The current name of the radiation lab that Ernest Lawrence first started in 1928
What is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?
This is the first Cal player to have their number retired
Who is Alfred Grigsby?
This athlete has the world record in the 100-meter butterfly
Who is Dana Vollmer?