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This is not just another test. Consider it an exercise in redemption: We’re offering 49 ways to prove your Cal-ness. Still have those nightmares about unfinished homework or impossible-to-complete final exams? Blame it on CalPTSD— Cal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—although we hope you suffer a relatively mild case. We’re offering a homegrown cure, our own version of the hair of the dog that bit you. It’s a means to answer the nagging question: Sure, I got a degree, but am I really Cal true blue? So here’s a take-home test. We suggest taking it seriously. After all, your Cal bona fides are at stake. And don’t even think about Googling. Our friends at the all-knowing search company will be proctoring 24/7.
1. Where was "Stanford Place" in Berkeley? 2. What is the scientific name for the California
grizzly bear? 3. Match the Berkeley building with the
architect and the school it houses. 1. Environmental Engineering A. Wheeler 4. Who ordered the banning of
tables and political demonstrations on those 26 feet of brick below
Sproul Hall leading to the campus protests, arrests, and sit-ins during
the fall of 1965?
5. When did California
officially get its nickname, "the Golden State"? 6. You know whom the Bancroft
Library is named after. But whom is Bancroft Way named after? 7. What was the shortest stint for a
California governor? 8. How many elements did Glenn
Seaborg discover? 9. In which year were women first
admitted to Cal? 10. Match the place on the left with the
appropriate thing on the right. 1. Biotech 11. What African-American student from
Berkeley won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Berlin? 12. Moses Hall and Stephens Hall
face each other across a courtyard
and have similar architectural styles, but what else did they once have
in common? 13. Which is the northernmost city in Southern
California? 14. "Weaving spiders come not here" is the motto of
which organization? And what does it mean? 15. Who was California’s first poet laureate?
16. Which of
the following rock legends can be found near Sather Gate? 17. Wayne Lee ’90 recently made headlines for
doing what?
18. In 1869 the University we know today
was actually the product of a merger. Which two schools merged? 19. Why did Jack London leave Cal in 1897? 20. Where does the Coachella Music Festival take place?
21. Which word is on the State of California seal? 22. What is the state
marine mammal? 23. Which is the tallest
mountain in California? 24. In which campus building did
Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillon discover plutonium? 25. Which of these cities
has never been the capital of California?
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Courtesy of The Regents of the University of California. 
