Colleges

4. The founder never visited the campus
8. Landmark Supreme Court case, one of the most important in US history
10. Often referred to as “Cal”
12. Home to over over 220,000 Eucalyptus trees
14. Community college in Irvine
15. The first public university in the United States
16. The most applied to university in the US
17. First research institute in the US
19. Famously rejected Steven Spielberg
20. The place where Terence Tao earned his PhD
21. Famously called the “Ivy League of the West”
22. Roger Federer gave a commencement speech
23. The oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the U.S.

1. The only Ivy League school to qualify for the 2026 March Madness
2. Invented a “smoot”, a unit of measurement
3. Has the Beer Bike tradition, where students alternate between chugging beer and riding a bike
5. This university hosts the nation’s largest student-run musical
6. Manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
7. Third oldest institution in the US higher education system
9. The college without a traditional campus
11. Originally called King’s College, later used as a British military hospital
12. The college next to o’block
13. It houses the world's largest sanctuary for rare lemurs.
16. The college features a campus lagoon with a private beach
18. Campus has a “statue of three lies” with 3 lies on the inscription
19. 2026 March Madness Winner