UCLA Obscure Facts
1) What animal (other than fish) can be seen swimming through the river in UCLA's Botanical Gardens.
a) Frogs
b) Toads
c) Eels
d) Turtles
d) Turtles
1) Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse contained the first theatrical appearance of which character?
a) Robbie Reyes
b) Gene Block
c) Miles Morales
d) Jaime Reyes
c) Miles Morales
Hey your refrigerator is running you better go “tccah ti”
a) Watch it
b) Catch it
c) Run after it
d) Educate yourself on the racial inequalities prevelent in the United States
b) Catch it
1) What percentage of the United States identifies as multiracial?
a) 7.4%
b) 10.2%
c) 22.0%
d) 33.1%
b) 10.2%
1) What does the candy M&M stand for?
a) Morsels & Magic
b) Mike & Mildred
c) Mars & Murrie
d) More & More
c) Mars & Murrie
2) What time does the UCLA astronomy department have free planetarium shows?
a) Tuesday at 9 pm
b) Wednesday at 7 pm
c) Thursday at 8 pm
d) Friday at 6 pm
b) Wednesday at 7 pm
2) Singer Hayley Kiyoko had a feature role in which Disney Channel original movie?
a) Camp Rock
b) Radio Rebel
c) The Cheetah Girls: One World
d) Lemonade Mouth
d) Lemonade Mouth
2) President “setoelvore anrifnlk” once said “The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself.”
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) Calvin Coolidge
d) Grover Cleveland
b) Franklin Roosevelt
2) By how much did the multi-racial population in the United States grow from 2010 to 2020?
a) 44%
b) 103%
c) 194%
d) 276%
d) 276%
2) What is the plastic part at the end of a shoelace called?
a) A tilde
b) A wamble
c) A pip
d) An aglet
d) An aglet
3) Which word was attempted to be spelled out by UCLA and Stanford when sending the first email?
a) “Click”
b) “Login”
c) “Web”
d) “Type”
b) “Login”
3) Before starring in Shake It Up Zendaya did a toy commercial for which Nickelodeon tv show?
a) Spongebob Squarepants
b) iCarly
c) Victorious
d) Hey Arnold!
b) iCarly
3) Unscrambling this phrase “rodo eth eelva pneo” reveals which hit song released in 2021?
a) Leave the Door Open
b) I Don’t Do Drugs
c) Call Me By Your Name
d) The Campfire Song
a) Leave the Door Open
3) The multi-racial population in the United States had the largest growth of all racial groups from the 2010 census going from 9 million people to…
a) 23.4 million
b) 33.8 million
c) 66.1 million
d) 89.9 million
b) 33.8 million
3) What is a group of crows called?
a) A flock
b) A murder
c) A shade
d) A school
b) A murder
4) How many students does UCLA’s largest lecture hall hold?
a) 150
b) 384
c) 442
d) 1919
c) 442
4) Which television show in the United States featured the first on-screen interracial kiss?
a) Bonanza
b) The Brady Bunch
c) Full House
d) Star Trek
d) Star Trek
4) The “iuammsx tesgluu” is the biggest muscle in the human body
a) Obturator externus
b) Pronator quadratus
c) Adductor longus
d) Gluteus maximus
d) Gluteus maximus
4) Based on the 2020 census, the U.S. state with the largest mixed-race population is…
a) California
b) New York
c) Hawaii
d) Texas
c) Hawaii
4) What is Joe Biden’s middle name?
a) Rodney
b) Rolph
c) Ray
d) Robinette
d) Robinette
5) What is the on-campus (not on the hill) dining hall called?
a) OKT in Hillel
b) Flame Kitchen in Broad
c) Bruin Munchies in Boelter
d) RKO in Melnitz
a) OKT in Hillel
5) What year did Halle Berry win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
a) 2002
b) 2011
c) 2013
d) 2004
a) 2002
5) “umdlalwa” is an Arabic word referring to someone who is of mixed ancestry.
a) Muwallad
b) Muladi
c) Muladita
d) Mulholland
a) Muwallad
5) The largest multiracial combination in the United States in 2020 is “white and some other race”, what is the second largest?
a) White and American Indian/Alaska Native
b) Black and White
c) Latino and Asian
d) Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native
a) White and American Indian/Alaska Native
5) In what year did the Battle of the Alamo take place?
a) 1804
b) 1836
c) 1874
d) 1902
b) 1836