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100

The street that Braun Gym is on

What is California Avenue?

100

Axel Foley is the fictional cop in this movie shot in Pasadena, with a few exteriors at CalTech

What is Beverly Hills Cop?

100

The year Page House was founded 

What is 1960?

100

A TV show set at CalTech

What is the Bing Bang Theory?
100

The father of fractal geometry

Who is Mandelbrot (MS '48, Engineering '49)?

200

The number of years CalTech had a football team 

What is 100? (1893-1993)

200

The year that the Huntington Gardens was founded

What is 1919?

200

The newest house at Caltech

What is Avery?

200

This 1968 Best Director picture had numerous shots at Caltech

What is The Graduate?

200

The three years that Einstein taught at Caltech

What is 1931, 1932, and 1933?

300

This CalTech sports team ended a 228 game losing streak (10 years) in February 2013

What is baseball?

300

The number of cities in LA that are older than Pasadena.

What is one?

300

The house that sponsors the Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment

What is Dabney?

300

The name fictional name of CalTech in Real Genius

What is Pacific Tech?

300

The founder of the pH meter

Who is Arnold Beckman?

400

The two teams that were playing when CalTech pulled off the Great Rose Bowl Hoax

What is University of Washington and University of Minnesota?

400

The meaning of the name Pasadena

What is "of the valley?"

400

The punishment for playing "the Ride of the Valkyries" at any time EXCEPT 7 am during finals week

What is a cold shower?

400

A crime drama television series blending math and law enforcement that uses CalTech for it's fictional California Institute of Science

What is NUMB3RS?

400

The number of research papers Richard Feynman write

What is 37?

500

This Caltech sports team had a 310 game losing streak that ended in 2011

What is basketball?

500

The original name of the Langham Hotel, when it was founded in 1907

What is the Hotel Wentworth?

500

Sabir Bhatia, Page 1991, co-founded this company

What is hotmail?

500

This Caltech grad directed 36 films and won 6 Oscars

Who is Frank Capra?

500

The only geologist to have walked on the moon

Who is Astronaut and United States Senator Harrison Schmitt (BS '57)?