Do you know your RA?
UCSC Basics
Campus Legends & Myths
Pop Culture
Classic Trivia
100

This is the year RA Kyle is currently in

Junior

100

This is the official mascot of UC Santa Cruz.

Banana Slug

100
The Painted Barrels are located by this college

Merrill


100

This viral blue vs. gold clothing item divided the internet in 2015.

The Dress
100

This U.S. state is known as the "Sunshine State."

Florida

200

This is the name of Kyle's cat

Po

200
In the past, students thought of an idea of changing the school mascot to this specific ocean mammal

Sea Lion

200

There's saying that you will do good on your finals if you do this one specific action

Kiss a banana slug

200

In 2016, this augmented reality game caused a global outdoor craze, with people running around to catch digital creatures

Pokemon Go

200

This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.

Inca Empire

300

Estimate the amount of phone calls received on his first night on-call 

22 

or 

closest wins

300

The UCSC grading system includes this unique option not commonly found at other UC campuses.

Pass/No pass

300

This famous serial killer was known for targeting UCSC students in the early 1970s

Ed Kemper

300

This YouTube video featuring a toddler and his older brother’s finger has over 800 million views

Charlie bit my finger

300

This Shakespeare play features the line, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Hamlet
400

Name of RA Kyle's college affliation 

Merrill College

400

In what year did UC Santa Cruz officially open its doors to students?

1965

400

Good luck comes your way if you leave something behind this place

Buddha Temple

400

This 2016 song by Rae Sremmurd sparked the viral “Mannequin Challenge” trend

“Black Beatles”

400

This ancient Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.

Aristotle

500
This NBA team is RA Kyle's Favorite
New York Knicks
500

This famous physicist helped found UCSC and insisted the university focus on undergraduate education.

Kenneth Thimann (or alternately:Dean McHenry)

500

Name this dining hall where the "First Rain (aka Naked Run)" began

Porter Dining Hall

500

In 2019, a Starbucks cup accidentally appearing in an episode of this HBO fantasy series broke the internet.

Game of Thrones

500

This mathematical theorem, named after a Greek philosopher, states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Pythagorean Theorem

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