Geography
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
What is Canada?
This director is known for long, mind-bending films like Inception and Interstellar.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
UCSF Medical Center was officially founded in this year.
What is 1864?
It’s the only continent with no active volcanoes.
What is Australia?
he first recorded mention of this American staple was at a dinner party hosted by Thomas Jefferson in 1775.
What are French fries?
This country is an archipelago consisting of over 7,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
In The Godfather, this character says: “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Who is Vito Corleone?
This UCSF Medical Center campus is known for its extensive research and innovation in biotechnology.
What is Mission Bay?
In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words.
Who is The Terminator?
Though associated with baking, this spice shares its name with a popular jam and also a type of apple.
What is allspice?
The country with the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
What is Italy?
This movie won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars
What is Oppenheimer?
UCSF is a leader in research and treatment of diseases of this organ system, which includes the heart and blood vessels.
What is the Cardiovascular system?
This country’s leaders have included Yusof Ishak, Benjamin Sheares and Lee Kuan Yew.
What is Singapore?
The world's oldest soft drink, invented in Waco, Texas, in 1885, was named by a pharmacist.
What is Dr. Pepper?
This capital city sits at the highest elevation of any in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
This South Korean film won Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars.
What is Parasite?
UCSF researchers developed this groundbreaking type of therapy that involves editing genes to treat diseases.
What is CRISPR?
This planet in our solar system has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
While often considered a vegetable, this part of the banana plant is edible and used in dishes like stir-fries and curries in Southeast Asian cuisine.
What is a banana blossom?
This African lake is considered the world's second deepest.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
This 2011 silent film, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
What is “The Artist”
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist and UCSF faculty member discovered the enzyme telomerase.
Who is Elizabeth Blackburn?
In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a certain type of plant/flower.
What is a poppy plant?
This South American beverage, made from a specific type of gourd and a metal straw, is known for its strong, grassy flavor and caffeinated kick.
What is yerba mate?