Constellations & Galaxies | Out of this World Movies & TV Shows | Planets | Relay Stars | Reaching for a Cure |
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What is the Milky Way?
This is the galaxy where Earth is located.
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What is The Jetsons?
This popular prime time cartoon features family living in a utopian future.
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What is Earth?
This planet spins on it's axis 1 time in almost a full 24 hours.
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Who is Pat Nelligan?
RFL GT 1st year team captain who raised the most funds for our Year End Challenge, earning a cooler full of goodies & a pizza for their team.
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What is 25?
This is the number of years that we have been Relaying in Grand Traverse.
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What is 13?
This is the number of zodiac constellations.
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What is Gravity?
2013 film staring Sandra Bullock & George Clooney in which their shuttle is destroyed, stranding them in deep space without a link to Earth.
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What is Saturn?
It you like it you should have put a ring on it, not that this planet needs any more.
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Who is Trisha Jackson?
A long time volunteer for RFL, Feb 3rd marks her 5th anniversary as a community manager for the American Cancer Society.
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What is $94,412?
This is the amount of money raised in Grand Traverse for the 2019 Relay For Life.
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What is Pegasus?
This constellation is named after a flying horse.
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What is Apollo 13?
This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the 1970 lunar mission with astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise & Jack Swigert.
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What is Venus?
This planet is named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty.
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Who is Sarah Patterson?
Started with Collegiate and moved to the Community Relay in 2018, she was the event lead in 2019 and is also our leader for "Relay Galaxy" 2020.
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What is Road to Recovery?
Through volunteers, this program has provided 16,908 rides in Michigan in 2018 to and from cancer treatments, saving patients almost $700,000 in transportation cost.
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What is 7?
This is the number of new stars produced by the Milky Way each year.
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What is WALL-E?
700 years into the future mankind will leave our planet, leaving Earth's cleanup in the hands of one incredible machine.
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What is Jupiter?
The great red spot on this planet is a storm that has lasted over 300 years.
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Who is Gordy Klatt?
He was a practicing surgeon specializing in colorectal cancer, and is credited as the founder of Relay For Life.
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What is $14.7 million?
This is the amount of money invested by ACS in Michigan alone in 2018 for cancer research.
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What is 88?
This is the number of official constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
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What is Stargate SG-1?
This TV series based on the film follows a team of explorers made up of soldiers and scientists who travel through an ancient portal to other planets.
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What is Neptune?
The wind on this planet is faster than the speed of sound at sea level.
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Who is Pat Flynn?
The first member to be inducted into the RFL Hall of Fame in 1998, 1500 people gathered in Dallas to get a hug from her and also fundraised from heaven, which was coined "Wrapped in a Hug"
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What is 22,228?
1-800.227.2345 was called this many times by Michigan residents in 2018.
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