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UC Davis was founded in this year

What is 1908

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She discovered stars are mostly hydrogen

Who is Cecilia Payne

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Muse sings about one of these, an object at the center of our galaxy

What is a Supermassive Black Hole

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This group lives in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library

What is QMAP

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It is the most visited theme park in the world

What is Magic Kingdom

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This California Circuit Court Judge is the namesake of the main UC Davis library and is generally considered to be the founder of the school

Who is Peter Shields

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She discovered every symmetry implies a conservation law 

Who is Emmy Noether

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Frances Forever sings about a space girl seeing one of these

What is a Lunar Eclipse

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This laboratory has a cyclotron, and it’s only a few meters from where we’re standing!

What is The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory

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It is the tallest rollercoaster in the world

What is King Da Ka

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This Egghead sits north of Mrak Hall and features an upside down laughing person

What is Eye on Mrak/ Fatal Laff

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She discovered Pulsars

Who is Jocelyn Bell

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This band wrote a song about Drops of Jupiter

What is Train

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This is the building with all those big rocks outside of it.

What is the Earth and Planetary Sciences Building

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This is the green and purple steel track and wooden support hybrid coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 

What is Joker

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Just two years after they went division 1 the UC Davis football team beat this arboreal team

Who is Stanford

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In 2020 she won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the Black Hole at the center of our galaxy

Who is Andrea Ghez

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Chris Cornell sings about wanting this to "Wash away the pain"

What is Black Hole Sun

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The building that our on-campus observatory is atop

What is Hutchinson Hall

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Cedar Fair tragically announced this theme park home to Goldstriker and Trail Blazer will be closing soon

What is Great America

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This popular novelist and UC alum known for his fiction stories about nature wrote one of the first readers for The California Aggie

Who is Jack London

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In 1972 she became the first African American woman to get a phd in physics

Who is Willie Hobbs Moore

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You've all heard the chorus "somewhere in these eyes I'm on your side," this is the title of that song

What is "Space Song"

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This is the political science building

What is Kerr Hall

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This California rollercoaster is the first in the world to feature steel-tube track and uses a water splash to slow it down

What is Matterhorn

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