Famous Research
UCSC
Building Belonging
Santa Cruz
Pop Culture
100
The controversial experiment that explores power dynamics by recreating a prison environment 

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

100

The year UCSC was founded

What is 1965?

100

The other program the Institute for Social Transformation offers for students

What is Transforming Futures?

100

A recent famous movie that features the Boardwalk

What is Us?

100

The Midwest Princess

Who is Chappell Roan?

200

The scientist who is famous for her studies of chimpanzees 

Who is Dr. Jane Goodall?

200

The names of our two libraries 

What is McHenry and S&E library?

200

The scholarship amount for Building Belonging per quarter

What is $1500?

200

A tourist attraction that focuses on optical illusions

What is the Mystery Spot?

200

The rapper who just released their seventh studio album

Who is Tyler, the creator?

300

The writers of the Communist Manifesto

Who is Karl Marx and Frederich Engles?

300

The number of students at UCSC this year

What is 17,795?

300

The year Building Belonging launched

What is 2020?

300

The "sport culture" Santa Cruz is known for

What is surfing?

300

The celebrity who recently crashed their own look-alike contest

Who is Timothée Chalamet?

400

The father of Political Science

Who is Aristotle?
400

The number of academic divisions *bonus points if you also know how many majors there are

What is 5 academic divisions? *What is 65 majors?

400

The number of Building Belonging fellows this year

What is 38?

400
The state beach right next to campus

What is Natural Bridges?

400

The Marvel TV show released in September 2024

What is Agatha all Along?

500
The topic with the most research in 2023

What is climate change?

500
The animal our mascot was changed to in 1980

What is a sea lion?

500

The person who runs Building Belonging

Who is Evin Knight?

500
The animal whose tooth was found in the Santa Cruz mountains

What is a Megalodon?

500

Nicholas Cage's recent horror film

What is Longlegs?

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