UC Places
Spanning over 200,000 square feet, this award-winning facility is where UC students go to rock climb, swim, work out, or destress.
What is the Campus Recreation Center?
This yellow fruit is the absolute favorite food of the Minions, often causing chaotic fights whenever one is seen.
What is a banana?
This creature has an odd reaction to a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell" because it generates most of the ATP/energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
This chemical element has the symbol Ar on the periodic table of elements.
What is Argon?
This bustling central hub on campus is named after a former UC president and houses the food court, study lounges, and the main student governance offices.
What is Tangeman University Center (TUC)?
This tall, two-eyed Minion with combed hair loves space, playing the guitar, and dressing up like a golf marker or a mother.
Who is Kevin?
Vincent Price provides the spooky spoken-word rap monologue at the end of this record-breaking 1984 Michael Jackson hit.
What is Thriller?
These are the 4 groups of macromolecules found in every living organism.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids?
This English playwright is famously known for writing iconic tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Built in a natural ravine on campus, this historic stadium is the home of Bearcats football and one of the oldest playing sites in college football.
What is Nippert Stadium?
In Despicable Me 2, El Macho uses a chemical called PX-41 to transform the yellow Minions into these aggressive, indestructible, fuzzy creatures.
Art the Clown is the main antagonist in this Horror series, starting in March of 2018.
What is Terrifier?
Composed of a hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic tails, these lipids make up the foundational bilayer of eukaryotic cell membranes.
What are phospholipids?
Measuring only a few millimeters, this tiny stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear is the smallest in the human body.
What is the stapes?
As the main library on UC's uptown campus, this multi-floor building is a primary destination for late-night studying, research help, and grabbing coffee.
What is Langsam Library?
Gru's main rival in the first movie, who wears an orange tracksuit and steals the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who is Vector?
This holiday is the day after Halloween, on November 1st.
What is All Saints' Day?
Membrane lipids and proteins are synthesized by enzymes located in this extensive, interconnected cellular network.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?
Istanbul is a major global city that used to be named this before the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Named after the renowned UC chemistry professor who co-discovered Benadryl, this major science building houses labs and classrooms for biology and chemistry.
What is Rieveschl Hall?
This comedic actor provides the iconic, vaguely Eastern European accent for the main character, Gru.
Who is Steve Carell?
This common Halloween candy was originally used for chicken feed.
Also known as the Citric Acid Cycle, this pathway takes place in the mitochondrial matrix and releases CO₂ as a waste product.
What is the Krebs Cycle?
Ironically, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the clinical term used to describe the irrational fear of these.
What is the fear of long words?