UTP (Unforgettable Turning Points)
This is the full name of the founder of UTP.
Who is Daria Danylchuk?
Nestled off West Mall in the heart of campus, this small wood-panelled three-story building houses the University Transition Program.
What is the Auditorium Annex B?
This line is famously said by Orsino at the start of Twelfth Night, employing the use of a metaphor between three things that Roman Emperors all enjoy.
What is “if music be the food of love, play on.”
This emergency response system notifies the public about a child abduction possibly near their area.
What is an Amber Alert?
In Interstellar, Miller’s Planet was notably close to one of these gravitational monsters, making one hour equal seven years on Earth.
What is a Black Hole?
UTP is the tri-institutional collaboration of these three organizations.
What are the VSB, UBC, and the BC Ministry of Education?
This Arthur Erickson-designed structure from 1997 deliberately showcases bold postmodern architecture that dramatically contrasts with the Gothic revival design of its companion building directly across Main Mall, creating an intentional contrast between old and new.
What is the (Walter C.) Koerner Library?
This cat, living at Camp Fircom, was named after a fictional ghost.
What is Casper?
In mathematics, this word refers to any two lines that meet at a vertex and form an angle.
What is Adjacent?
This Italian dropped objects from towers to prove that mass doesn't affect fall rate, then spent his final years under house arrest for telling the church that “they ain’t the centre of the world."
Who is Galileo Galilei?
In this year, Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, and UTP was also unofficially created in this year (2 years before its official establishment). Clearly, two equally impactful events.
What is 1993?
This facility, with its distinctive scalloped roof and floor-to-ceiling windows, was built with a generous donation from its namesake and serves as both a conference centre and marine sciences laboratory at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, overlooking Barkley Sound.
What is the Rix Centre for Ocean Discoveries?
The original plan was for us to visit this European country at the end of the year, before it was abruptly cancelled by the VSB.
What is Italy?
This man hosted the position that Darien and Charles are currently occupying, until he passed away in 2020.
Who is Alex Trebek?
If you had a nickel for every notable time this happened in Prague, you’d have 3 nickels. Most notably, this action was taken in 1618 and sent a few Catholic governors to see their maker.
What is defenestration?
This UBC landmark is featured in the background of the homepage of the UTP website.
What is the Martha Piper Fountain? (Accept UBC Fountain)
This six-storey building, completed in 1964 at a cost of $1,398,503, is connected to Hennings by a skywalk and was named after the first Head of UBC's Physics Department who served from 1916-1938.
What is the Hebb Building?
We went to this beach after departing Bamfield on Friday.
What is Pachena Bay?
This law states that the volume occupied by an amount of gas is directly proportional to its temperature, if the pressure remains constant.
What is Charles’s Law?
This is the radius of a sphere within which the gravitational pull of an object becomes so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the Schwarzschild Radius?
UTP started with this many students in its first year, housed in a portable at University Hill Secondary School.
What is seven?
Built in two phases at a combined cost of nearly $4 million, this building at 2125 Main Mall was originally constructed in 1962 by the BC Department of Public Works, with a 1965 addition specifically designed as office space for faculty and specialized teaching areas, and was later renamed to honor the first Dean of Education who challenged the conservative 1960 Chant Report.
What is the Neville Scarfe Building?
This “epic” subtitle to a “secure” art exhibit by Parviz Tanavoli was on display “behind bars” when we visited the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2023.
What is Poets, Locks, Cages?
This word, a combination of a student and a teacher name, describes the relation of the name “Vin Diesel” to the phrase “I end lives”.
What is an Anagram (Anna-Graham)?
Use a calculator. If you're orbiting Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometres where the ISS flies, you need to be moving at approximately this speed to avoid becoming an unplanned meteorite. Calculate using Earth's radius of 6,371 km, mass of 5.972 × 10^24 kg, and surface gravity of 9.8 m/s², with gravitational constant 6.674 × 10^-11 (answer in km/s, to one decimal point).
What is 7.7 km/s?