Your host
Known for blustery winters, stunning coastal summers, and a heavy appreciation for donairs, this is the Canadian province your host is originally from.
What is Nova Scotia?
Holding millions of volumes, this iconic St. George campus landmark is the largest academic library building in Canada.
What is Rob*rts?
Of all the individuals gathered around the table for tonight's potluck, this person has spent the least amount of total time living in Canada.
Who is Nico?
The 1914 assassination of this Archduke in Sarajevo famously served as the catalyst for WWI.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music famously offers a popular upper-level seminar course entirely dedicated to the historic impact and discography of this legendary rock band.
Who are The Beatles?
Your host has recently found herself crushing on this actor, an aesthetic icon known just as much for his phenomenal acting as they are for their famously thick, expressive, and "crazy" eyebrows.
Who is Will Poulter?
Though it federated with UofT later, this college—originally established in Cobourg, Ontario in 1836—holds the earliest founding date of any college in the system.
What is Victoria College?
Whether it’s a perfectly framed photo or an flawlessly curated dump, this potluck member's Instagram stories are always so aesthetic that your host can't help but constantly admire them.
Who is Dana?
Though its modern name honors a mythological Norse god of thunder, this highly reactive element is actually listed on the periodic table under the un-electrifying symbol "Xe".
What is Xenon?
While hacking away at OSAP student grants, this provincial politician famously told students to stop picking "basket-weaving courses" because "there are not too many baskets being sold out there."
Who is Do*g F*rd?
Though countless other programs were added and deleted from her academic plan, this major always have, is, will remain your host's ultimate survivor.
What is Global Health?
UofT's McLennan Physical Laboratories and University College famously masqueraded as Harvard and MIT in this 1997 Oscar-winning drama, that happens to be one of your host's favorite movies.
What is Good Will Hunting?
The Instagram algorithm knows they are practically twins, considering this individual shares the most mutual followers with your host on the app.
Who is Grayson?
The classic 1999 teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, is a modernized, high school adaptation of this Shakespeare play.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
The centerpiece of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s famous "Golden Phase," this iconic 1908 masterpiece depicts a couple wrapped in an opulent, geometric gold leaf cloak, locked in a tight embrace on the edge of a wildflower meadow.
What is The Kiss?
After a grueling 8-hour road trip spent trapped with their scent, (which literally made your host throw up) she developed a lifelong hatred for this beloved Canadian delicacy.
What are Ketchup Chips?
If you tally up the undergraduate divisions managing student life across downtown, Mississauga, and Scarborough, this is the total number of colleges in the UofT system.
What is 9?
When meeting this potluck attendee for the very first time, your host initially thought they seemed a bit intimidating—only to quickly realize they are actually just totally chill.
Who is Sulaeem?
Plunging over 110 meters (360 feet) underground to double as a nuclear bomb shelter, one of the deepest subway systems in the world is found beneath the capital of this secretive peninsular nation.
What is North Korea?
This brilliant composer, lyricist, and actor famously spent years reading Ron Chernow's biography of a founding father before turning it into a Pulitzer Prize-winning, hip-hop stage phenomenon.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
In a time when Canadian public consensus on immigration numbers is undergoing its biggest vibe shift in decades, on July 17, 2026, your host celebrated a "Canadaversary" marking this milestone number of years living in the country.
What is 7?
While studying biology in 2022, your host learned that North America's first functional version of this historic, subatomic breakthrough was built right here at UofT in 1938.
What is electron microscope?
Having put up with your host for more time than anyone else at the table, this potluck member officially wins the award for the longest-running friendship.
Who is Elena?
If you are asked to evaluate
lim x->0 ( ln(1-x) - sin x ) / ( 1 - cos^2 x )
your final calculus breakdown will conclude with this definitive mathematical result.
What is the limit does not exist?
While traditionally viewed as a simple depiction of Christ and his apostles, conspiracy theories and art analysts famously argue that the figure sitting to the right of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper isn't John the Apostle, but rather this secret biblical figure.
Who is Mary Magdalene?