Stanford Facts
Popular hiking area that holds a 150 foot diameter radiotelescope in the Stanford Foothills.
What is The Dish?
A red and white striped candy in the shape of a cane.
What is a candy cane?
Kristi Yamaguchi won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympic Winter Games for this sport.
What is ice skating?
Many of the humpback variety of this animal migrate to Hawaii for the Winter
What is Whale?
This country has 6 seasons that include Pre-Winter, Winter, and Monsoon season. There are important festivals that are celebrated during Pre-Winter for this country.
What is India?
Built in 1941 and dedicated as part of Stanford's 50th anniversary celebration.
What is Hoover Tower?
A brown cookie, often called a "bread", decorated with icing and candies.
What is gingerbread?
A 1993 movie was made about this sport involving a team from Jamaica, where this sport is not played.
What is bobsledding?
This animal is called the unicorn of the sea.
What is a narwhal?
This country celebrates a weeklong holiday celebration. The celebration is focused on 7 core principles - unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith and is observed from December 26 to January 1 and ends with feast and exchange of gifts.
What is Africa? (Kwanzaa is also celebrated in the US, Canada, and other countries to honor African Heritage and African-American culture).
Who does Stanford play against during the BIG GAME?
What is Cal-Berkeley?
To make this, you heat up a type of fruit juice with different spices such as cinnamon sticks, cloves, and allspice.
What is hot apple cider?
Derived from the Norwegian word ''skíð' which means a split piece of wood.
What is ski?
In North America, these are also called caribou.
What is a reindeer?
You know it's Christmas season when a star shaped ornamental lantern called a Parol is hung in the houses, streets, and buildings in this country.
What is the Philippines?
Rounding to the nearest hundredth, roughly how many buildings does Stanford incorporate?
What is 700?
A beautifully wrapped white box or two of these are given to our department during the holidays (and if we keep our conference room door open, someone might help themselves to it).
What is See's candy?
Jibbing, Freestyling, and riding Goofy Foot are just a few styles of this sport.
What is snowboarding?
A group of these in the water is called a raft but on land they're called a waddle.
What are penguins?
Nochebuena, or Christmas Eve, on December 24th. After the final processions, people head to church for midnight mass. Afterward, they go home and eat a large meal to celebrate the holiday.
What is Mexico?
A Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, this was built in 1937 designed based on hexagonal geometry, with no right angles in the floor plan.
What is the Hanna House?
British dessert consisting of a dark, dense sponge cake made with chopped dates that is topped with a sweet sauce; it may also be served with vanilla ice cream or custard. Also called figgy pudding.
What is sticky toffee pudding?
Ice augers are used to cut the ice in this sport and one usually sits on a five gallon bucket.
What is ice fishing?
These animals can reach up to 25mph on land and can swim 6mph in the water.
What is a polar bear?
New Year's for this (these countries) are celebrated in February and homes are decorated with chrysanthemums or orchids, peach blossom trees, oranges. Red is considered lucky and red envelopes filled with coins (and more if you're really lucky) are gifted to children and unmarried adults.
What is China or Vietnam?