Campus Landmarks
This large field is often filled with students hammocking and playing frisbee
What is Memorial Glade?
This Apple co-founder went to Berkeley.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
The mascot for Cal is this bear.
Who is Oski?
What famous element, named after the university, was discovered at UC Berkeley in 1949?
What is Californium?
Berkeley was founded in this year.
What is 1868?
This tower is the tallest clock/bell tower in the U.S.
What is the Campanile?
This theoretical physicist and Cal alum developed quantum field theory.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Students "roll" down this campus landmark for good luck before finals.
What is 4.0 Hill?
What UC Berkeley research center is renowned for developing the first successful human gene-editing technique using CRISPR-Cas9?
What is the Innovative Genomics Institute?
This movement began at UC Berkeley in 1964.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
The campus botanical garden is located in this hill area behind campus.
What is Strawberry Canyon?
Before becoming a leading voice in progressive politics, this congresswoman earned a master’s in social work from UC Berkeley.
Who is Barbara Lee?
The night before finals week begins, Berkeley students open their windows or go outside to unleash this loud stress-relieving ritual at exactly 12:00 AM.
What is the Midnight Scream?
What Berkeley-based project contributed to the development of the first atomic bomb?
What is the Manhattan Project?
This atomic element is named after the university.
What is Berkelium (Bk)?
This underground library reading room has famously poor cell service.
What is Main Stacks?
This UC Berkeley professor made history by co-developing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Who is Jennifer Doudna?
Superstition says that if you tread on these circular brass inlays found near iconic campus landmarks, you risk cursing your academic fate — especially before finals.
What are the campus seals?
What groundbreaking environmental discovery, associated with the greenhouse effect and global warming, was made by UC Berkeley scientists in the 1970s?
What are CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons)?
This was the original name of the university before adopting “Berkeley.”
What is the College of California?
The steps in front of Sproul Hall are named after this famous student activist.
Who is Mario Savio?
While finishing her English degree at UC Berkeley in 1956, she won a Vogue essay contest that kick-started her legendary writing career.
Who is Joan Didion?
Hidden in plain sight on the Campanile’s façade is this fossil, a nod to Berkeley’s deep connection to paleontology — but only the most observant students ever notice it.
What is the saber-toothed cat fossil?
UC Berkeley scientists were among the first to identify a specific protein, which is crucial for controlling cell division and is often involved in the development of cancer. What is the name of this protein?
What is p53? (tumor suppressor protein)
In 1969, this vacant lot near Telegraph Avenue became the epicenter of a student-led movement, sparking a violent clash with police and the National Guard — and is now a public park born out of protest.
What is People’s Park?