Climbing
A hard or dynamic fall on a lead or trad route.
What is a whip / whipper?
This is the newest building to have been completed on the UCSB campus.
What is Henley Hall?
This singer's holiday album, Merry Christmas, has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is the best selling Christmas album of all time.
Who is Mariah Carey?
This moist object is used in the kitchen to manually sharpen knives.
What is a whetstone?
Charcoal is mostly made from this material.
What is wood?
This type of knot allows you to secure a rope to a carabiner or environmental object such as a tree or rock.
What is a clove hitch?
This crepuscular creature gave UCSB residents a scare when it was spotted far from it's natural home.
What is a Mountain Lion?
Containing concessions by the king, this 13th century document is one of the foundations of English and American law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This type of icing is typically used to assemble gingerbread houses due to its hardening characteristic.
What is royal icing?
This material is produced by reducing sand with carbon in an electric furnace.
What is silicon?
This V7 on the twenty second pitch of an El Capitan route can be described as in the "no fall zone"
What is Freerider?
This avian mode of transportation popular in Isla Vista has flown in to replace it's old citrus competitor.
What is a Bird?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903).
Who is Marie Curie?
This liquid is fermented then brewed. It’s made with soja beans and also contains roasted grains, water, and salt.
What is soy sauce?
This ionic salt makes up climbing chalk.
What is Magnesium Carbonate?
This original German word for "Red Point," which means to ascend a free climb without falling.
What is Rotpunkt?
The former restaurant that occupied the location of what is now Tacos and Taproom served this cuisine.
What is a grilled cheese?
During medieval times, this type of aged cow’s milk was a staple of nourishment and income for monks and nuns typically in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.
What is Monastery Cheeses?
This chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars is responsible for the browning color on the outside of meat
What is the Maillard Reaction?
One application of a silicone polymer includes a non-Newtonian fluid marketed as this children's toy.
What is Silly Putty?
This firstknown grading system for rock climbing was introduced in 1894. It had seven levels of difficulty, with level VII the easiest and level I the most difficult.
What is the Benesch scale?
This is the total number of floors in the 5 on-campus freshmen dorms at UCSB.
What is 22?
(Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Rosa, San Nic, San Miguel)
Alec Issigonis originally designed this small car with sliding windows in order to create more storage space to fit a bottle of Gordon’s Gin in the door.
What is MINI Cooper?
This food requires chefs to train for years before being being able to serve it.
What is fugu (pufferfish)?
This invention by chemist Stephanie Kwolek, has by weight, five times the tensile strength of steel and has been used to make bullet proof vests.
What is kevlar?