World History
What 1945 event led to Japan’s surrender in World War II?
Hiroshima
Which city is known as the Silicon Valley of India?
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
This North Shattuck cooperative is famous for its daily-changing vegetarian pizza, live jazz, and lines of Cal students that wrap around the block.
Cheese Board
Name the original cheerleader for the restaurant "The Noodle"
Lavanya
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New Zealand
Which city was divided by a wall from 1961 to 1989?
Berlin
Without this Indian invention, you wouldn’t even be scoring points in this trivia. What’s the invention?
Zero
What’s the name of the bell tower that chimes across campus, and how tall is it (+- 10 METERS)?
Campanile - 307m
Name two international students that visited in Spring 2022 and were sort-of friends with us.
Pranav Khetan & Sudesh Bhatia
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Latvia
Which treaty ended World War I in 1919?
Versailles
This Indian practice of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline originated over 2,500 years ago.
Yoga
How many chemical elements were discovered at Berkeley?
16
Who was the May 2023 Cal commencement speaker and who was the ASUC President that year?
Steve Wozniak + Tellam Chakkha
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Seychelles
Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?
Mongol Empire
This spice, once called “black gold,” drew traders from around the world to India’s Malabar Coast for centuries.
Black Pepper
What is UC Berkeley’s official Latin motto?
Fiat Lux
Guess two homies missing in this picture (excluding the seven friend group)
Vishesh + Paarth
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St. Lucia
Which U.S. President appears on the $100 bill?
None (Benjamin Franklin wasn’t a president)
Indian-origin CEOs currently lead several of the world’s biggest tech giants. Name four of them. Prioritise US-based.
Satya Nadella — CEO & Chairman, Microsoft
Sundar Pichai — CEO, Alphabet (Google)
Arvind Krishna — CEO & Chairman, IBM
Shantanu Narayen — CEO & Chairman, Adobe
Raj Subramaniam — CEO & President, FedEx
Nikesh Arora — CEO & Chairman, Palo Alto Networks
Sanjay Mehrotra — CEO, Micron Technology
George Kurian — CEO, NetApp
Leena Nair — Global CEO, Chanel
Laxman Narasimhan — CEO, Starbucks
Ravi Kumar S. — CEO, Cognizant
Revathi Advaithi — CEO, Flex (Flextronics)
Ajay Banga — President, World Bank (former CEO, Mastercard)
Reshma Kewalramani — CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Devika Bulchandani — Global CEO, Ogilvy
Vasant Narasimhan — CEO, Novartis
Sanjiv Lamba — CEO, Linde plc
Vivek Sankaran — CEO, Albertsons Companies
Jayshree Ullal — CEO, Arista Networks
Neal Mohan — CEO, YouTube
This world-famous physicist and Nobel laureate taught at UC Berkeley before leading the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. (Full Name Please!)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Guess the nightclub we ended up at on this night
M
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Mozambique