50 Shades of Green
Environmental Science
Delaware in TV & Film
Environmentalism Around the World
Hall of Name
100
This vibrant shade of green is named for a citrus fruit.
What is lime green?
100
While the eruptions of these natural geologic features emit carbon dioxide, they're responsible for less than 1% of what humanity emits.
What are volcanoes?
100
In the 5th season of Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope is starstruck upon meeting this former Delaware senator and UD graduate.
Who is Joe Biden?
100
Hailing from Sweden, this 21-year-old environmentalist started the Skolstrejk för Klimatet, or "school strike for climate."
Who is Greta Thunberg?
100
Both the student gymnasium and the competive sports complex are named after this man, who became the youngest president of a Major League Baseball team at age 28.
Who is Bob Carpenter?
200
Whether it's being pressed into an oil or topping a pizza, the namesake of this shade of green is a staple in Mediterranean cuisine.
What is olive green?
200
When animals such as the Black Rhino or Giant Panda are at high risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature may choose to qualify them as this.
What is an endangered species?
200
Rob McElhenny wears a Deer Park T-shirt in the 6th season of this sitcom, set about an hour north of Newark.
What is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
200
Yuan Longping was revered as a national hero in China, as his work on hybridizing this staple crop species helped feed the growing country and was a major part of the Green Revolution of the 1970s.
What is rice?
200
There are at least three halls on campus containing this last name, belonging to a prolific French family and a Delaware-based chemical company infamous for pollution.
What is duPont?
300
This shade gets its name from the froth at the crest of a wave, but I don't really see it.
What is seafoam green?
300
This element, with atomic number 3, is a critical component of electric vehicle batteries.
What is lithium?
300
Although it's set at a boarding school in Vermont, this coming-of-age drama starring Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams was shot in Middletown, New Castle, and Wilmington.
What is Dead Poets Society?
300
According to their official website, this European island nation gets 73% of its electricity from hydropower and the remaining 27% from geothermal power.
What is Iceland?
300
The honors college dormitory was named after this civil rights lawyer who helped desegregate the University of Delaware and later presented the Brown vs. Board of Education case to the Supreme Court.
Who is Louis L. Redding?
400
The name of this shade comes from an Irish first name or a last name.
What is kelly green?
400
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring claims that the overusage of this pesticide threatens ecosystem health.
What is DDT?
400
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This violent 1999 thriller is implied to take place in Wilmington, as Brad Pitt tells Edward Norton "Did you know there's a [title] up in Delaware City? ... Bob even found one up in New Castle."
What is Fight Club?
400
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A United Nations treaty signed in this city in 1987 established a protocol that would force countries to phase out the use of chemicals responsible for ozone depletion.
What is Montreal?
400
Alongside George Read and Thomas McKean, this founding father signed the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Delaware. His legacy is being the namesake for an upperclassman dorm and our largest dining hall.
Who is Caesar Rodney?
500
This shade of green got its name when a college in the capital of California began using it for its sports uniforms.
What is Sacramento green?
500
This atmospheric phenomenon, whose name translates to "the little boy," has a predictable, annual effect on American weather, causing warmer temperature in the north and flooding in the south.
What is El Niño?
500
In the movie Wayne's World, Wayne and Garth use this video editing technology to put locations such as New York, Hawai'i, Texas, and Delaware in the backdrop behind them.
What is a greenscreen/bluescreen?
500
This French oceanographer and inventor of scuba technology directed the undersea documentary The Silent World to help advance the cause of ocean conservation.
Whos is Jacques Cousteau?
500
This minister founded the academy that evetually became the University of Delaware and is acknowldged with two neighboring lecture halls on east campus. He's also the mentor for which Mentor's Circle is named.
Who is Francis Alison?