SAAS Lore
Three or so years ago, students were forbidden from frequenting this location adjacent to SAAS for engaging in bad, unbecoming behavior.
The Seattle University bookstore.
What word may be defined as a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather?
petrichor
In chess notation, what does the symbol "O-O" represent?
King-side castling!
What remote, uninhabited island save an autonomous South African weather station, is an albatross haven?
Gough Island!
What thing that basically renders us all rotisserie chickens, is hopelessly overrated?
The stupid sun.
What core text did freshmen at SAAS read for a long time, but no more?
Define "anemoia."
nostalgia for a place or time one has never known or experienced
How many squares are there on a chess board?
What are the three small countries located at the top of South America, left to right? Name them.
Guyana. Suriname. French Guiana.
Dying because you have an irrational fear of beans, like Pythagoras, is the worst. What is this fear called?
leguminophobia
What brief, fleeting, treasured tradition, was introduced during remote, asynchronous learning during the Pandemic, that some students have petitioned to have reinstated?
We Wednesday!
What word refers to the third from the end, or the one before the next-to-the-last?
antepenultimate
What does the term "zugzwang" refer to?
It refers to a situation when it's a player's turn, but any move they make will worsen their position. There are no skipping turns in chess, folks!
What two islands, own governed by Russia, the other governed by the US, lie only 2.4 miles apart from one another?
The Diomede Islands.
This vegetable contains what is called "lachrymatory factor" and assaults your mucous membranes.
Onions, nature's worst vegetable.
A building used to exist between the Vanderbilt and where the Middle School Building now sits. What unlikely service did it provide, considering that it was located on a high school campus?
A re-integration house.
What does "balderdash" mean?
nonsense
Eighteenth-century French chess master and composer François-André Danican Philidor said which pieces are the "soul of chess?"
Pawns! Forget the rest.
What country is entirely encircled by South Africa?
Lesotho.
A negative. THE DAILY NEGATIVE! Add a minus symbol to your score.
Many moons ago, some students stole a delivery to the Comet. What lead allowed law enforcement to find the culprits and bring them to justice?
The students drove away in a car that draped a Seattle Academy-branded t-shirt over their rear license plate.
Define "disabuse."
to correct, or to free someone from, a misconception.
What is a "knight's tour?"
A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once.
What country features an open book, a gardening hoe, and a bayonetted AK-47?
Mozambique
These abrasive, invasive grains have the ability to aggressively exfoliate your dermis, leaving you raw to the sun's harsh UV rays and in pain should you leap into the brackish waters of Elliott Bay.
Sand, the most annoying naturally occurring substance.