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Humans share approximately 60% of their DNA with this fruit.
What is a banana?
What was the other candidate for the UCI mascot?
What is a unicorn?
This Shakespeare play features the famous line, “To be or not to be.”
What is Hamlet?
What is the largest empire in human history?
What is the British Empire?
This animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can confuse investigators.
Koala
Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve this metal.
What is zinc/iron?
What major corporate headquarters is located right next to the UCI campus?
What is In-N-Out?
In Greek mythology, this hero flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax.
Who is Icarus?
This historical pandemic killed an estimated one-third of Europe’s population during the 14th century.
What is the Black Death?
This athlete’s “flu game” became one of the most iconic performances in NBA Finals history.
What is Michael Jordan?
This condition causes temporary ringing in the ears after loud concerts or blasting music through headphones.
What is tinnitus?
This billion-dollar gaming company was founded by two UCI graduates.
What is Riot Games?
Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” while staying at ___.
What is an asylum?
This city is sinking so rapidly that some scientists believe parts may become uninhabitable within decades.
What is Jakarta?
This real experiment placed volunteers in a fake prison environment that became so psychologically intense it was shut down early.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This organic molecule’s unusual stability comes from a phenomenon where six π electrons are delocalized across a planar ring structure.
What is benzene?
This UCI campus spot has appeared in the major film Poltergeist.
What is Langson Library?
In the Hunger Games movie, what primary industry was District 13?
What is Nuclear technology and Rebellion Headquarters?
Despite being the world’s smallest sovereign state, this nation maintains its own military guard and postal service.
What is Vatican City?
This is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters "-mt".
What is "dreamt"?
This biochemical principle explains why hemoglobin’s affinity for oxygen increases after the first oxygen molecule binds.
What is cooperative binding/cooperativity?
UCI currently holds five Guinness World Records. Name three.
What is Largest game of dodgeball, water pistol/blaster fight, game of capture the flag, game of balloon tag, and/or game of red light/green light
This artist was once suspected of helping steal the Mona Lisa because police found him carrying one of its paintings.
What is Pablo Picasso?
Though it seems impossible on most maps, this European nation actually covers 12 different time zones, the most of any country, due to its scattered overseas territories.
What is France?
This planet rotates so extremely that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year.
What is Venus?