Stanford Dropouts
The Ivies
Portland Nicknames
The 49th State
Pua's Least Favorite Sayings, Hazel's Favorites
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His first and middle names are Eldridge Tont, and he never won an NCAA golf championship while at Stanford.
Who is Tiger Woods? In honor of Stanford, he always wore a cardinal shirt with black pants for his Sunday rounds.
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In size of endowment, Kamehameha would be fourth on the list of Ivies, more than twice Brown's 4.7 billion, and much less than the 38.3 billion of this top school.
What is Harvard?
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Portland's official nickname due to the over 200 miles of roads planted with these flowers.
What is the City of Roses?
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You can only get to these two Capitol cities from the Continental US by boat or plane.
What are Juneau, Alaska and Honolulu, HI?
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This saying reminds you to be open to different solutions to a problem.
What is 'There's more than one way to skin a cat'?
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1962 Nobel Prize in Literature citing his excellent novellas Tortilla Flats and Cannery Row, and a Pulitzer Prize for his much more serious novel, Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
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All of the Ivies were started in Colonial America with parochial ties except for this youngest and non-sectarian school.
What is Cornell? Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth where all founded on Calvinist principles, Columbia and Penn on the Church of England, and Brown on Baptist.
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The City of Bridges refers to the 15 bridges within the city that cross one of these two major rivers.
What are the Willamette and the Columbia?
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He was the Sec. of State who negotiated the 7.2 million dollar purchase of Alaska, and Alaska was long referred to as his Folly.
Who is Seward? He was attacked the same night as Lincoln as part of that conspiracy to reignite the Confederacy, but survived.
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This saying reminds you that there may be things that it's better not to know.
What is 'Curiosity killed the cat'?
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Led Stanford to an NCAA Team Championship and went on to win 7 Grand Slams spending 170 weeks as the worlds #1 male at singles and 270 weeks as the worlds #1 at doubles.
Who is John McEnroe?
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As the first 7 Ivies were founded as men's colleges, they were tied to this collective group of women's colleges for social events.
What are the Seven Sisters? Cornell was the only Ivy founded as a co-educational institution.
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To promote its burgeoning tech industry, Portland titled itself this, a comparison with the Silicon Valley.
What is the Silicon Forest?
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17 of the tallest mountains in North America are in Alaska, including this tallest whose Athabaskan name means the Great One.
What is Denali?
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This saying, also the title of a Tennessee Willliams play, refers to someone who is exhibiting nervous and fidgety behavior.
What is like 'A cat on a hot tin roof'?
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Made his first billion selling Paypal to Ebay, launched a Tesla into earth orbit, and the worlds richest person.
Who is Elon Musk? (worth 270 Billion)
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A term first used by Yale's admissions office, the Public Ivies are a group of prestigious public universities, including this Boulder, Colorado institution, that provide an educational experience similar to an Ivy.
What is the similar (but not equal) University of Colorado?
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During a period of phenomenal growth, crews cut trees to clear land for residential and business use but did not have the time to clear the tree stumps, lending to this Portland nickname.
What is Stumptown? Stumptown Coffee Roasters is Portland's most famous coffee.
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This sled dog race commemorates the 1925 serum run which saved the lives of a whole community.
What is the Iditarod?
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This saying refers to a very confined space, originally below decks on sailing ships.
What is 'There isn't enough room to swing a cat'?
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War Hero as Commander of PT-109, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Profiles in Courage, and President of the United States.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
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Because they were some of the first Universities in America the Ivies are also known by this age-old name.
What are The Ancient Eight? Rutgers and the College of William and Mary are the two other Universities founded in the colonial period.
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After the vomit protests of the Gulf War during his visit there, this President's staff called Portland Little Beirut.
Who is George HW Bush? Protestors of his visit to Portland ate dyed potatoes, and then took Syrup of Ipecac to cover the motorcade route with red, white, and blue vomit.
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Balto was the lead dog of a team that braved blizzard conditions in the 674 mile relay to deliver diphtheria serum from Anchorage to Nome. A statue in Anchorage honors him, as well as one in this Metropolitan park on the other side of the country.
What is Central Park?
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This saying refers the difficult task of organizing a group of people.
What is 'Its like herding cats'?