Stanford Alumni
Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer
Who is Katie Ledecky?
Annual football game against Berkeley, which Stanford won this year, leading to us reclaiming the Stanford Axe!!!
What is Big Game?
This 150 foot structure was built to investigate Soviet radar
What is The Dish?
How did Leland Stanford earn the money that allowed him to open up the university?
What is the Railroad Industry?
This weekly seminar looks into interdisciplinary energy topics.
What is the Explore Energy seminar?
Stared in the movie Legally Blonde.
Who is Reese Witherspoon?
Tradition that involves bathing in an atypical pool.
What is Fountain Hopping?
This 285-foot landmark was a gift from the Belgian-American Education Foundation and is named for the 31st U.S. President, who was also a Stanford alumnus.
What is the Hoover Tower?
Nickname for the university, based on where it was originally built.
What is "The Farm"?
This school, which features classes related to energy topics, is located in close proximity to the Explore Energy House.
What is the Doerr School of Sustainability?
These two alumni met at Stanford, and later developed a company that is now the world's second most valuable company.
Who are Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
Yearly tradition that involves filling out a survey to be matched with your most compatible partner on campus.
What is Marriage Pact?
This art installation, originally sculpted by Auguste Rodin, is found in front of Memorial Church. The work reveals the emotion of 6 figures anticipating their deaths.
What is the Burghers of Calais?
Disease that led to the death of Leland and Jane Stanford's only child.
What is typhoid?
The Energy house sponsored a field trip to this factory, which manufactures electric motors, battery packs, and energy storage.
What is the Tesla Gigafactory?
First woman on the Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
36 hour hackathon that reflects tech culture on campus
What is TreeHacks?
This dorm's design was heavily influenced by female students who worked toward addressing a housing shortage.
What is Florence Moore Hall?
This person sold her jewelery in order to keep the university afloat after a financial crisis, and started the "Jewel Fund", which continues to support the library today.
Who is Jane Stanford?
Every Friday night, people gather in the lounge to discuss sustainability while drinking this beverage.
What is tea?
Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, also had a dog named Toby who ate half of a draft of his arguably most popular novel.
Who is John Steinbeck?
Controversial tradition where hundreds of students meet on the quad at midnight.
This garden was originally planted in 1880 for Jane and Leland Stanford, and still contains some of the original exotic plants.
What is the Arizona Cactus Garden?
When was 1906?
In a clever April Fool's prank, and RA stated that these companies would be sponsoring the explore energy house in the upcoming year.