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This beloved Christmas movie features a young boy accidentally left home alone defending his house from burglars.
What is Home Alone?
This transportation method is the most scenic way to reach Roosevelt Island from Manhattan.
What is the roosevelt island tram?
This is the year Cornell Tech first opened its campus on Roosevelt Island.
What is 2017?
The first bear brought onto Cornell's campus in 1915, whom the mascot was later named after.
Who is Touchdown?
This park is the most filmed location in the world.
What is Central Park?
This jolly red-clad man was originally depicted wearing green before Coca-Cola made him iconic.
Who is Santa Claus?
This iconic ruin on Roosevelt Island was once a hospital for those afflicted by a specific contagious disease.
What is the Smallpox Memorial Hospital?
Cornell Tech’s campus is so sustainable that it manages this resource almost entirely on its own without depending on NYC’s grid.
What is energy?
These many steps lead to the top of the clock tower, and also the list of things to complete before graduating Cornell.
What is 161?
Times Square isn’t named for its lights—it’s named after this type of building once headquartered there.
What is The New York Times?
Traditionally, a man could kiss a woman under this plant, but after each kiss, a berry was plucked from the plant. When all the berries were gone, no more kisses were allowed.
What is a mistletoe?
This is Roosevelt Island's most famous turkey.
Who is Rosie?
Cornell Tech’s café avoids offering these ubiquitous plastic items.
What are straws?
This alumni is a childhood science TV show presenter.
Who is Bill Nye?
You're 10x more likely to be bitten by this, or rather who, than a shark here in NYC.
What is a New Yorker?
The Christmas song holds a Guinness World Record for being the first-ever song played in outer space.
What is jingle bells?
Before being developed into affordable housing, Roosevelt Island was used for this purpose in the 19th century.
What is a prison?
Cornell Tech has launched over this many startups.
What is a 100?
This lab is the world's leading institution for bird enthusiasts.
What is the Lab of Ornithology?
When the Dutch West India Company set up a trading post here in 1626, they originally named the city this before it was renamed New York City by the British.
What is New Amsterdam?
Every year, Canadian children can send their letters to this address to receive a personalized reply from "Santa" through Canada Post's Santa Letter-Writing Program using this personal postal code.
What is "H0H 0H0"?
The original indigenous residents of the Northeast and Roosevelt Island.
Who are the Lenape?
Cornell/Technion won the bid from Mayor Mike Bloomberg to build an applied sciences campus in New York City and received these two things.
What is free land and 100M dollars?
This beloved fast food item was invented here by food science professor Robert Carl Baker in 1963.
What are chicken nuggets?
This city government's official is in charge of decreasing the rat population in Manhattan. This is her nickname.
Who is the rat czar?