British Slang
Aubergine
What is eggplant?
This is the first year that UCR was open for undergraduate students.
What is 1954?
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, these indigenous peoples lived in what is now Riverside.
What are the Cahuilla and Serrano people?
In this movie, a high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
"Yeah" - Usher ft. Lil Jon, Ludacris
What is 2004?
Wheelie Bins
UCR's botanical gardens covers this much land.
What is 40 acres?
Riverside got its name from being close to this river.
What is the Santa Ana River?
Tupac Shakur played the character Bishop in this 1992 film.
What is Juice?
"Despacito" - Luis Fonsi ft Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber
What is 2017?
Bonnet
Hood (of a car)
UCR was the first UC campus to offer lower division courses in this area.
What is Education?
The navel orange was introduced to Riverside from this multi World Cup winning country.
What is Brazil?
This film was Jordan Peele's directorial debut and starred Daniel Kaluuya.
What is Get Out?
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
What is 2012?
Chuffed
Very pleased
Completed in 2013, this school was the first of its kind to be newly built in California in 40 years.
What is the UCR School of Medicine?
Gone with the Wind [1939] was screened for the first time at this Riverside theater
What is the Fox Theater?
In Spider-Man 3, Topher Grace plays Eddie Brock Jr. who turns into Venom. Topher Grace got his big break on this TV show.
What is That 70s Show?
"Tik Tok" - Ke$ha
What is 2010?
Lorry
Truck (18 wheeler)
UCR did not actually start as a school or university, it initially started as this.
What is an Citrus Experimentation Station?
Because of its unusually high pollution rates, Riverside is one city that is located in this.
What is the smog belt?
This movie is the highest grossing R rated movie of all time.
"Independent Woman" - Destiny's Child
What is 2000?