UNLV Trivia Game
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Week Thirty-Six Clue
1955 — Monthly student paper, thing , debuts with a female editor, Lydia Malcom.
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Week Thirty-Six Clue & Answer
1955 — Monthly student paper, Rebel Yell , debuts with a female editor, Lydia Malcom.
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1970 — The December 11 issue of the school paper changes its name to Yell in response to African-American student activist Bert Babero's assertion that the Rebel nickname, with its Confederate associations, is racist.
Previous Weeks
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Week Zero Clue & Answer
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Week One Clue & Answer
1988 — The natural history museum, later named for UNLV supporter Marjorie Barrick, unveils its xeric demonstration garden of drought-resistant plants.
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Week Two Clue & Answer
1955 — CSNS adopts the Rebel name and the first official mascot, Beauregard , a fanged Confederate cartoon wolf meant to challenge the Wolf Pack mascot of the University of Nevada, Reno. The scarlet and gray school colors evoke the traditional Confederate uniform.
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Week Three Clue & Answer
1959 — Archie C. Grant Hall , named for the Las Vegas regent who championed a separate state college in southern Nevada, opens for classes.
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Week Four Clue & Answer
1991 — The Jean Nidetch Women's Center is established, with the commitment to raising awareness of women's issues, creating opportunities for personal and professional growth, and to celebrating accomplishments of women.
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Week Five Clue & Answer
1975 — The $5 million Paul C. McDermott Physical Education complex opens, complete with a 50-meter indoor pool, two gymnasiums, and eight handball courts.
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Week Six Clue & Answer
1964 — Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret dance in Nevada Southern's gym in the famous scene from the film Viva Las Vegas.
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Week Seven Clue & Answer
2005 — Construction begins on the $113 million science and engineering building, which will have 200,000 square feet of teaching space, laboratories, and high-tech conference rooms. The building, scheduled to be completed in 2008, is designed to support interdisciplinary research; draw students to high-demand fields such as electrical engineering, computer science, and environmental science; and attract national and international researchers.
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Week Eight Clue & Answer
2001 — The 301,000-square-foot, $58 million Lied Library opens, named for the real estate entrepreneur, with a robotic book retrieval system, 96 work stations, and the latest in electronic data processing.
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Week Nine Clue & Answer
1972 — The 575-seat Judy Bayley Theatre opens as the first building of the performing arts center.
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Week Ten Clue & Answer
1983 — Frank and Estella Beam Hall opens, housing College of Business and Harrah College of Hotel Administration for the next 25 years.
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Week Eleven Clue & Answer
1998 — The William S. Boyd School of Law opens in a temporary facility, the former Paradise Elementary School. A year later, it receives $28.5 million from James E. Rogers and the Rogers family, the largest charitable gift pledge in Nevada history. In 2002, the school moves on campus to the old site of the James R. Dickinson Library.
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Week Twelve Clue & Answer
1966 — In recognition that the college is attracting a growing number of students from out of town and out of state, Tonopah Hall opens.
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Week Thirteen Clue & Answer
1981 — The dedication ceremony for Claes Oldenburg's Flashlight sculpture on the plaza of the performing arts center is covered on the "Evening News with Walter Cronkite," and the artwork becomes an instant landmark.
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Week Fourteen Clue & Answer
1960 — First student bookstore built across Maryland Parkway.
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Week Fifteen Clue & Answer
1969 — The Board of Regents approves the school's name change to University of Nevada at Las Vegas and gives it the UNLV abbreviation.
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Week Sixteen Clue & Answer
1991 — The Richard Tam Alumni Center opens, housing the Heliotrope , designed to reflect the intricate elements of change within the environment.
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Week Seventeen Clue & Answer
1981 — The UNLV Foundation is created to play a major role in coordinating university's endowment and gift-giving programs.
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Week Eighteen Clue & Answer
1988 — To celebrate their new home, students from the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering paint a trail of green footprints on the sidewalk leading to the $14.7 million Thomas T. Beam Engineering Building.
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Week Nineteen Clue & Answer
1958 — Classes are cancelled for part of the day so students, faculty, dignitaries, and residents can attend a ceremony marking the first-ever flag-raising at Nevada Southern, at which Las Vegas mayor D.C. Baker delivers the keynote address.
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Week Twenty Clue & Answer
1954 — Striving to become more than a two-year junior college program, the school moves beyond the required freshman and sophomore coursework and begins hiring instructors to train more students for teaching careers.
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Week Twenty-One Clue & Answer
1955 — On May 24, local high school seniors visit nearly every home in the metropolitan area to raise funds for a new campus in what becomes known as the " Porch Light Campaign", so named because as students' efforts extend into the evening.
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Week Twenty-Two Clue & Answer
1974 — Lady Rebels , the women's basketball team, starts competing as the first women's varsity sport on campus.
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Week Twenty-Three Clue & Answer
1951 — James Dickinson , an English instructor at University of Nevada, Reno, serves as first director, registrar, and only full-time instructor of the new extension program in Las Vegas; each course costs $7.50 with a maximum fee of $23 per semester.
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Week Twenty-Four Clue & Answer
1970 — For the first time, the Rebel football team wins the rights to the Fremont Cannon , a traveling trophy for the winner of the game between UNLV and UNR. Considered one of the best, and loudest, symbols of rivalry in college football, and is a replica of the one used by explorer John C. Fremont as he headed west into Nevada in 1843.
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Week Twenty-Five Clue & Answer
2004 — The College of Nursing begins a doctoral program to train much-needed professors.
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Week Twenty-Six Clue & Answer
1967 — As part of the effort to increase Nevada Southern's national visibility, Bill Ireland is hired to recruit and coach a football team.
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Week Twenty-Seven Clue & Answer
1961 — Catholic students form Newman Club and Mormon students form Deseret Club.
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Week Twenty-Eight Clue & Answer
1966 — CSNS sponsors the first-ever homecoming on campus, in conjunction with a basketball game against archrival University of Nevada.
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Week Twenty-Nine Clue & Answer
1971 — Future U.S. senator John Kerry speaks at an antiwar rally at UNLV.
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Week Thirty Clue & Answer
2006 — UNLV opens its first international campus in Singapore , where the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration offers its bachelor's degree program in hospitality management.
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Week Thirty-One Clue & Answer
2007 — On April 27, David Ashley is inaugurated as UNLV's eighth president.
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Week Thirty-Two Clue & Answer
1971 — In a special–initiative election, students vote to retain the Rebel name, rejecting suggested alternatives such as Big Horn Rams, Nuggets, A-Bombs, and Sand Burners. Five years later, though, they vote to replace the Confederate wolf mascot with a human Revolutionary War soldier, which eventually evolves into a more geographically appropriate pioneer figure.
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Week Thirty-Three Clue & Answer
2006 — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison delivers a lecture to a capacity crowd of 1,500 to mark the debut of the Black Mountain Institute, which will bring artists and scholars together for public forums on major issues.
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Week Thirty-Four Clue & Answer
1959/1960 — The library's 2,000 books are moved to Grant Hall to escape the problems of Maude Frazier Hall , including occasional rattlesnakes in hallways, under the desks, and on bookshelves.
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Week Thirty-Five Clue & Answer
1990 — The Runnin' Rebels win the NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament against Duke , 103-73, setting a record for the margin of victory in a championship game.
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