Wyoming Rivers
This river rises in the Wind River range but could also be created by combining the colors blue and yellow
What is the Green?
This building, home to the Outdoor Program and Wellness Center, is named after its original footprint (land area)
What is Half Acre Gym?
BA Florida, MSc Oxford, PhD MIT
Who is Kelly Dunning?
This range is included in a national park that shares the name of its tallest peak
What is the Teton Range?
This family lived at the corner of 6th Street and another street that is now named after them
What is Ivinson?
This two-word name could describe either a rhinoceros or a river that rises in Montana and feeds the Yellowstone River
What is the Bighorn?
This person has exclusive rights to graze their cattle on the university’s main quad
What is university president, Ed Seidel?
BS Wyoming, JD Wyoming
Who is Temple Stoellinger?
Located west of Laramie, its highest point is Clark Peak (12,960 ft) in Colorado’s Rawah Wilderness
What is the Snowy Range?
This 19th century humorist has the same name as a present-day television scientist, known in the 1990s as “The Science Guy”
Who is Bill Nye?
This river is a tributary of the Missouri and shares its name with a TV show that premiered on the Paramount Network in 2018
What is the Yellowstone?
Meeting every Thursday from 10-12 in Beta 207, this group gives Haub School students and their friends an opportunity for writing accountability hours
What is Haubies Write!?
BA UC Davis, MA Wyoming, PhD Georgia
Who is Rico Vercoe?
Two national forests, three wilderness areas, a peak on the Wyoming license plate and the tallest peak in Wyoming
What is the Wind River Range?
This author lived nearby in Saratoga, WY, where she wrote several short stories, including Brokeback Mountain
Who is Annie Proulx
At 1,080 miles, this river is the longest tributary of the Columbia River
What is the Snake?
This was the second University of Wyoming building to receive LEED certification for its sustainability measures
What is the Bim Kendall House?
BA Gettysburg, PhD Wyoming
Who is Jake Hochard?
Located in North Central Wyoming, Cloud Peak (13,175 ft) is the tallest in this range that shares a name with a national forest
What is the Bighorn Range?
This French trapper got lost in the mountains near present-day Laramie, eventually lending his name to a mountain range, city, county, and more
Who is Jacques LaRamie?
This river gives its name to the city that is home to the largest rail yard in the United States
What is the North Platte?
One of the University of Wyoming mascots is rumored to be the inspiration for this character from a popular NBC sitcom
What is Lil Sebastian on Parks & Rec?
BA UC Denver, MS Colorado State, PhD University of Alaska Fairbanks
Who is Corrie Knapp?
West of Saratoga, this range was used for copper mining with Buck Mountain (11,396 ft) having it’s highest elevation
What is the Sierra Madre Range?
The director of this 2024 horror movie, a remake of a 1922 movie based on Dracula, was born in Laramie
Who is Nosferatu?