Santa Cruz History
The top employer in the city of Santa Cruz
What is UC Santa Cruz?
The name of our mascot
What is Sammy?
This is the new name for Facebook.
What is Meta?
How many main series Star Wars movies are there?
What is 9?
Santa Cruz was the first place in the United States outside of Hawaii to adopt this sport
What is surfing?
The names of all residential colleges at UCSC
What are (Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Nine, Lewis, Kresge, Porter, RCC, Oakes)?
The organization that currently owns LinkedIn.
What is Microsoft ?
This Korean drama premiered on Netflix in September, eventually becoming the most tweeted about TV show of 2021.
What is Squid Games?
John Travolta sported a T Shirt with this college on it while playing Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction
What is UCSC?
At this tourist attraction, visitors experience demonstrations that appear to defy gravity, on the short but steep uphill walk and inside a wooden building on the site.
What is the Mystery Spot?
Two famous UCSC Alumni
Who are (Susan Wojcicki, Maya Rudolph, bell hooks, Andy Samberg, Still Woozy, etc...)?
The name of the computer that won Jeopardy.
What is Watson ?
Investors banded together in January to squeeze hedge funds, sending this stock’s value up by more than $10 billion.
What is Gamestop?
This series comes first chronologically, the Lord of the Rings series or the Hobbit series
What is the Hobbit Series
Santa Cruz is home to the country’s oldest ________ _______, opened in 1915
What is an amusement park?
This animal almost replaced the banana slug as the UCSC mascot in the 1980s
What is a Sea Lion?
The name of the first computer that beat a world champion in chess.
What is Deep Blue?
Two billionaires that sent themselves to space in 2021
Who are Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson?
The name of the famous stock audio scream heard in many feature films
What is the Wilhelm Scream?
This company is credited with inventing the modern wetsuit and has been headquartered in Santa Cruz since the 1950s
What is O'neil?
When planning the location for the new UC that would eventually be placed in Santa Cruz, the original location was planned to be here
Where is Almaden Valley (South San Jose)?
Jeff Bezos originally wanted to name Amazon as ___.
What is Cadabra?
What was the most popular song of 2021
What is Montero (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X?
The actors of five superheroes in the MCU and the heroes they play
Who are (Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Evans (Cap), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Scarlett Johansen (Black Widow), etc...)