UCCS Trivia
This building on campus is where you go if you want to speak to an academic advisor
What is Main Hall?
The 1987 classic movie that has this famous line: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”
What is the Princess Bride?
The very first Nintendo console
What is the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)?
This fruit-themed computer launched in 1984.
What is Apple MacIntosh?
This year the berlin wall separating east from west Germany fell.
What is 1989?
This building on campus has a giant pendulum that is in motion constantly because of the rotation of the earth.
What is Osbourne Center?
The term "Rickrolling" alludes to this 1987 hit song by Rick Astley.
What is "Never Gonna Give You Up"?
Mario's nick name in Donkey Kong (1981).
Who is Jumpman?
This feline-based musical came to Broadway in 1982.
What is Cats?
This is the still the second highest selling album of all time, but rose to fame originally in 1982?
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
This is the name of the current chancellor of UCCS.
Who is Chancellor Venkat Reddy?
This movie 1989 started the Disney Renaissance Era.
What is The Little Mermaid?
The final boss in popular boxing video game Punch Out.
Who is Mike Tyson?
This icon married Prince Charles in 1981.
Who is Princess Diana?
What country hosted the only Olympic games to ever be boycotted by the U.S. in 1980?
What is the Soviet Union?
These are the three restaurants housed in the UC (AKA Here in University Center!)
What are Clyde's Gastropub, Cafe 65, and Sanatorium Grounds?
The highest grossing film of the decade, created in 1982.
What is E.T.?
Ganon's hideout in Legend of Zelda (1986)
What is Death Mountain?
The 1985 benefit concert that raised funds for relief due to famine in Ethiopia.
What is Live Aid?
True or False: Olympic gold medals are still made entirely of gold, as they have been since the origin of the modern games.
False; gold medals ceased to be 100% gold in 1912. Today they are made with 90% silver, and have to have at least 6 grams of gold
This on campus building was used a a tuberculosis ward before UCCS became a university campus.
What is Main Hall?
The first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating.
What is Red Dawn (1984)?
The nicknames of the four ghosts who chased Pac-Man.
(Hint: one is our mascot)
Who are Inky, Pinky, Blinky, & Clyde?
This 1987 based on trading cards that parody the Cabbage Patch Kids currently has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is the Garbage Pail Kids movie?
What was the first ever space shuttle to be launched in 1981?
The Columbia Space Shuttle