UC Berkeley
This basketball/theater TV movie icon played at Berkeley
Who is
Troy Bolton
This flightless bird native to New Zealand is known for its long beak and inability to fly
What is
the kiwi?
In 1999, the Bay Area's professional soccer team, the San Jose Clash, later renamed to this.
The San Jose Earthquakes
In the "Shrek" movies, it's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy
Donkey
This sitcom taught us that nothing good happens after 2 a.m., but you can still meet the mother of all life lessons in a NYC bar.
What is
How I met your Mother?
UC Berkeley's colors are blue and gold, with blue representing this and gold representing California's nickname
What are
the ocean/bay (blue), "golden state" (gold)
This marine creature, sometimes called a "sea unicorn," has a long, spiral tusk that's actually a tooth.
What is
a narwhal?
A now-iconic internet company, this online retailer based in the Bay Area had its IPO in 1999, selling books before expanding to everything.
what is
Ebay
Before co-starring in "Get Out", Allison Williams played one of the girls on this HBO series
What is
Girls
In this show, a chemistry teacher decides to cook something way more dangerous than Christmas cookies, with a side of desert drama.
What is
Breaking Bad?
This type of underground passage system, built in the early 1900s to generate power, was used by a Chancellor to escape student protests in the 1960s
What are
The steam tunnels
This insect has been to outer space, as NASA sent colonies of them aboard the Space Shuttle.
Ants?
This tech issue, nicknamed "the millennium bug," had Bay Area engineers scrambling to prevent system failures.
Yk2
What we call the "magnetic" this attracts the north magnetic poles of compass needles, so it's actually a south magnetic pole
What are
The magnetic north pole
In this animated comedy, four boys from a small Colorado town somehow get into bigger trouble than most adults—and one of them keeps coming back from the dead.
What is
South Park?
The final score of this year's big game
What is
21-24 (go bears)
This mammal holds the title for the fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds up to 70 mph.
What is
a cheetah?
This Bay Area city, once called the "Coney Island of the West Coast," is an island and was a popular destination in 1999 (and now)
What is
Alameda
Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time--the 2 directors were in the same room
What is
Carrie
This long-running medical drama proved that no hospital is complete without way too much drama, ridiculously good-looking doctors, and an unsettling amount of plane crashes.
What is
Grey's Anatomy?
This Berkeley professor and architect designed Sather Gate, which was completed in 1910.
John Glen Howard
These tiny shrimp-like creatures, which glow in the dark, are responsible for much of the ocean’s bioluminescence
What are
krill?
This iconic sci fi action movie came out in 1999 and was filmed in San Francisco
What is
the matrix
The flag that Betsy Ross sewed for the new union of the colonies in 1777 had 13 stars in the top inner corner, the area called this
The union
This 2000s sci-fi series only lasted one season but became a cult classic. Its ragtag crew flew through space on a "Firefly-class" ship named after a battle their captain fought in.
What is
Firefly?