Food Spots
What restaurant is at the corner of York St. near HQ? (hint: This restaurant was most in demand last week for the scavenger hunt)
sweetgreen
What does the Cushing Museum famously house inside?
What kind of government was Connecticut before state governance?
Theocracy
What U.S. president was famously born in New Haven CT?
George W. Bush
Yale is known for having one of the largest indoor gymnasium in the world... what is the name of it?
The Payne Whitney Gymnasium
What food shop within boundaries has a love letter to humanity at the corner of the street?
Claire's Corner Copia
Who runs the UNH Makerspace throughout the year?
Students at the University of New Haven
In what year was New Haven established? (answers within 10 years will be correct)
1638 (1628-1648)
What famous actor starred in Outer Banks from New Haven? What character did they play? (answer either of this questions to earn the points)
Carlacia Grant (Cleo)
Mad Mare Hill has rumors of what ghost-like entity that runs down its hills? (hint: it is an animal)
What ethnic group of food is New Haven most known for?
Italian-American
How many years has the Tweed New Haven Airport been operating? (answers within 10 years will be correct)
94 years (84-104)
What was the New Haven Greens/Park originally used as?
A cemetery (with bodies that are still left under the park... [the secret dead])
What famous Hispanic Supreme Court Justice earned their degree from Yale University?
Sonia Sotomayor
What secret society within boundaries is a student group that supposedly owns their own island retreat?
Skull and Bones
Pizza capital of the country, what two pizza stores are within boundary for you all?
Yorkside Pizza & Bobbi's Pizza
The New Haven Courthouse was originally built to serve two purposes, one was the court system itself, and the other was what?
A post office service
What is the origin story of the Cushing Museum/Center?
1902, Dr. Cushing discovered that a specimen of his had been accidentally misplaced by the pathology department. To prevent this from ever happening again, he decided to keep all of his anatomical and surgical specimens himself.
Who was America's oldest spy during the Revolutionary War who graduated from Yale University?
Nathan Hale
Union Residences are dubbed as one of the most haunted skyscrapers in the world... what is one thing that has been spotted there?
Floating dolls, levitating garbage cans, ghosts of mischievous children
New Haven is known for being the first to invent this food... what is it?
The first American hamburger (a steak sandwich at Louis' Lunch served strictly between two slices of toasted white bread)
The Henry C. Lee lab is famous for first solving what kind of case in Connecticut history?
A no-body murder case
An unusual property of the Tweed Airport is that it sits very closely to sea level and requires careful environmental management to its surrounding wetlands... at what number of feet does the airport sit above or below sea level (answers within +/- 2 feet will be correct)?
12 feet above sea level (10-14 ft)
Why/how did Henry C. Lee end up in the criminal justice world?
He was too short for professional basketball and took the entrance exam for the police academy in Taiwan since tuition was free!
Some of y'all may not know this about Bao, but they love writing poetry :)
So... in what journal did their poem published in at Yale? (all groups are free to come up with answers and any group that gets it correct will earn the points)
The Foundationalist