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This FGR team member's in-depth knowledge of all things DesiLu knows no bounds.
Who is Julie Clements?
This Washington neighborhood has many creative names for its local eateries, including "Madam's Organ."
What is Adams Morgan?
This other name for a "line" is frequently used by our friends across the pond.
What is a "queue?"
This ranch, the largest in the state of Texas, is so large that it's actually bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
What is the King Ranch?
Whether a Bruin, Highlander, or Golden ____, this type of animal represents 30 percent of UC campuses' mascots.
What is a bear?
This FGR team member moved from Florida to California to allow her sister to pursue acting.
Who is Jessica Bushman?
This Senate Office Building was the first to be constructed, in 1908.
What is the Russell Senate Office Building?
This monarch, made famous both by his unusual ascension to the throne and his struggles to overcome stuttering, is the father of the country's current monarch.
Who is King George VI?
These four (domestic) states border the great state of Texas.
What are New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
This forest-dwelling creature, often bright yellow after its namesake, also can be green, brown, tan, or white... and they're all squishy.
What is the banana slug? (UC Santa Cruz)
This FGR team member was born in Hamburg, Germany.
Who is Karin Ukpabi?
These two neoclassical capitol domes were finished within 11 years of each other in their respective capital cities.
U.S. Capitol (1863); California State Capitol (1874).
This side dish with roots in Northern England is often served with Sunday Roast.
What is Yorkshire Pudding?
This mountain, at 8,751 feet, holds the record as the highest point in the State of Texas.
What is Guadalupe Peak (Signal Peak)?
This animal mascot, also representing a popular sports car made by Ford Motor Co., stays true to this campus' equestrian roots.
What is a mustang? (UC Davis)
This FGR team member met both Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris before they were a "big deal," and now regrets not asking for photos "back in the day."
Who is Ruth Garcia-Espino?
This local watering hole in the Hay-Adams Hotel is named by the journalistic practices its patrons expect to be followed.
What is "Off The Record?"
These means of transportation--often found in the U.K.--are well-known for their ability to easily double their capacity by simply asking passengers to climb a flight of stairs.
What are double-decker buses?
This Texas city, sometimes referred to as Fritztown by its residents with German heritage, only has a population of 10k, but we're lucky to have gotten one of them!
What is Fredericksburg, Texas?
This mountain-dwelling creature also represents UC's newest campus.
What is the bobcat? (UC Merced)
This FGR team member once owned and raced a sailboat!
Who is Phil Harman?
This way of getting around the Capitol has been used for more than 100 years by honeymooners, prohibition dodgers, Studebaker cars, and the occasional Member of Congress.
What are the Capitol's underground tunnels? (It wasn't always a subway!)
A well-known tower was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of its namesake, but it is better known by this name by the public.
What is Big Ben?
Spain. France. Mexico. Republic of Texas. USA. CSA.
This ruler of Atlantica also wants to be Part of Our World, and has a day job serving as the mascot for UC's southernmost campus.
Who is King Triton? (UC San Diego)