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Random Trivia
100

What year did the TWC move to Partridge Hall?

1987

100

Where can you find a wooden cutout sign of the word "breathe"?

The kitchen
100

What happens if you pass through the Van Winkle Gates more than twice?

Bad luck

100

Actress from Black-ish and Girlfriends

Tracee Ellis Ross

100

What is the one food that never spoils?

Honey

200

Who coined "third world" and what book was he famous for writing?

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

200

Where can you find a sign that says "Seas the day"?

Main office

200

What year was Brown University founded?

1764

200

Actor who was Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton

Daveed Diggs

200

What was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture?

Beauty and the Beast

300

When was the first annual Spring PowWow?

2001

300

Where can you find black and white chevron- patterned pillows at the BCSC?

Native room

300

Brown University was renamed because of a $5,000 donation by whom?

Nicholas Brown
300

Politician who ran for president in 2020

Andrew Yang

300

The theory of evolution by natural selection was popularized by this British naturalist, whose work was groundbreaking in the field of biology.

Charles Darwin

400

In the 1968 protest, where did the black women from Pembroke camp?

Congdon Street Baptist Church

400

Where can you find the book "Tomatoes for Neela"?

Grad lounge

400

Brown has the oldest undergraduate ______ program out of all of the Ivy League schools.

Engineering

400

Actor who had leading roles in the TV shows Heroes and Hawaii Five-0

Masi Oka

400

The Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, is located in this South American country.

Chile

500

What year did the MPC program start?

1973

500

Where can you find a felt succulent?

Asian American Room

500

How much was tuition in 1804?

$5

500

____ is an American singer and former actress, and is also the daughter of singer and actress Diana Ross and the biological child of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy

Rhonda Ross Kendrick

500

This music video, released in 2009, became the first video to hit one billion views on YouTube.

Baby Shark

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