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This famous DJ is a UCSB alum with BAs in women’s studies and sociology. He is known for “caking” his crowds by, well, flinging a cake into the crowd.
Who is Steve Aoki?
Time to dive N2 some atmospheric trivia! This is just O2 good to be true. The atmosphere of our planet is stratified into these five distinct layers.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
The summer blockbuster strikes back! Making more than $1.4 billion at the box office worldwide, this was the highest grossing movie of 2023.
What is Barbie?
This former reality show host and US president was convicted of 34 felony charges stemming from a hush money scandal dating back to 2016.
Who is Donald Trump?
The line “To be, or not to be” comes from this Shakespeare play.
What is Hamlet?
Comprised of 11 schools, this NCAA Division I conference is home to UCSB, as well as many universities throughout California (plus UH Manoa).
What is the Big West?
Where’s Waldo? Apparently, stating that “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things” and establishing this key spatial science tenet.
What is Tobler’s first law of geography?
I scream, you scream, we all scream for basketball. These are the two teams facing each other in this year’s NBA Finals.
Who are the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks?
They’ve got airplanes dropping like…airplanes, evidently. Once the embodiment of world-class engineering and ingenuity, this aerospace giant’s reputation and future is now in jeopardy after years of corruption, hundreds of deaths directly linked to their carelessness, ill-advised cost-cutting, and flat-out criminality.
What is Boeing?
This corporate entity produces billions of small, individual units made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene on a yearly basis and sells them in expertly designed thematic kits. Created by Ole Hans Christiansen in 1932, this company named after the Danish words for ‘play’ and ‘well’ is the largest toy company on the planet.
What is Lego?
You may see this mustachioed mascot running around UCSB sporting events pumping up our spirited student body.
Who is Ole the Gaucho?
You get an acronym, you get an acronym! Acronyms for everybody! Soil scientists use this acronym of five factors to characterize soil formation.
What is CLORPT? (climate, organisms, relief, parent material, and time)
On this date eight years ago, this legendary boxer and activist passed away at the age of 74. Nicknamed ‘the Greatest’, he was an intergenerational icon, one of the most distinguished athletes of all time, and a leading voice for peace and justice.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
In its 214 year history, this country has never had a woman president…until now! This climate scientist and member of the Morena party will be the country’s first female head of state.
What is Mexico and who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
This is stored in a camel’s hump.
What is fat?
Opened last year and finally built after two years of building, this building is the newest building built on campus.
What is the AS Bike Shop?
In 1928, this Los Angeles County dam famously collapsed due to the improper characterization of geologic hazards.
What is the St. Francis Dam?
“A donut hole within a donut’s hole…” Californian auteur Rian Johnson recently announced the third installment in this original movie franchise.
What is Knives Out?
This year, Bruhat Soma, a 12 year old from Florida, was crowned champion of this notable competition for kids.
What is the Scripps National Spelling Bee?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise.
What is Venus?
How many miles of bike paths do we have here at UCSB?
7 miles
High-five! For 100 points each, name each of the five themes of geography.
Location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction
Get your groove on! Founded by Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, this annual event is held in Chicago’s Grant Park, where people and performers from all over the world congregate for four-days of raucous partying and boogying.
What is Lollapalooza?
Over in the Pacific, recent unrest in this French territory underscored the decades-long struggle of pro-independence and Indigenous groups for freedom from their historic colonizers.
What is New Caledonia?
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