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# 25. What year did the UCSD Tritons move from Division III to Division II?


2000

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Question submitted by:

Karin Griffin, '89

Congratulations to the winner:

Jaime Ryan, '00

# 26. Name this campus location.


Old Student Center

Old Student Center


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Congratulations to the winner:

Matt Natividad, '02

# 27.  Name this campus location.



Price Center fountain

 

Congratulations to the winner:

Jaime Ryan, '00

         

# 28.  In the Stuart Collection, Bruce Neuman's "Vices and Virtues" consists of seven pairs of words superimposed on blinking neon around the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory. Name two of the possible 14 vices and virtues.


There are several possible answers:

Faith/Lust
Hope/Envy
Charity/Sloth
Prudence/Pride
Justice/Avarice
Temperance/Gluttony
Fortitude/Anger


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Congratulations to the winner:

Bill Freeman, '91

 

# 29. True or False: The thousands of eucalyptus trees on campus were originally planted for use as railroad ties by the Santa Fe Railway.

True!

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Congratulations to the winner:

Janice Lew, '03

 

# 30.  Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide recently named UCSD the "the hottest institution" for...
a.  Sun bathing
b.  Science
c.  Studying
d.  Scrabble

UCSD was recently named "the hottest institution for SCIENCE" by Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide.
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Congratulations to the winner:

William Phillips, '04

     

# 31.  What is the "official" student newspaper at UCSD?
a.  Triton Times
b.  The Guardian
c.  The Koala
d.  MQ (Muir Quarterly)

The Guardian

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Congratulations to the winner:

Marisa Gutierrez, '05


# 32.  What U.S. President was an All-Campus Commencement speaker?

 

President Bill Clinton

Congratulations to the winner:

Daniel Phillips '89

Question submitted by:

Leilani Pamplona Villegas '97

# 33. What UCSD alumnus wrote the novel "Sideways" in which the 2005 film was based?


Rex Pickett, '76

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Congratulations to the winner:

Dan Jackson, '05

     

# 34.  Which "Desperate Housewives" star was a commencement speaker at Warren College in 2005?

Hint: Some may call him a "desperate husband."


Ricardo Chavira, MFA, '00, plays Carlos Solis jerky husband of Gabrielle Solis.

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Congratulations to the winner:

Veronica Henson-Phillips, '79


# 35.  What Italian art diagnostician, and UCSD alumnus, appears in Dan Brown's blockbuster novel, "The Da Vinci Code?"

Maurizio Seracini, '73

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Congratulations to the winner:
Robert Gaudinez, '98

# 36. Name this UCSD building.


Joan and Irwin Jacobs School of Engineering.

Irwin Jacobs will be named Honorary Alumnus at the Alumni Awards for Excellence on June 3.
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Congratulations to the winner:
Joel Garcia, '88
     

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