General
The theorem, named after the Greek man who refused to eat fava beans because he supposedly believed they contained human souls, used to find the side lengths of a right triangle.
What is the pythagorean theorem?
This comic book by Art Spiegelman, lauded as the most successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust, is set in Poland.
What is Maus?
This is my major
What is International Studies?
The book about a mouse who is in love with a princess, which my favorite book that I've read in Spanish
What is Despereaux, or The Tale of Despereaux?
The band that has been my favorite band since I was in fifth grade.
What is The Front Bottoms?
The first televised president of the United States.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The century in which the Polish Partitions happened.
What is the 1700's? (or, the 18th century)
This is my new years resolution
What is "to see 1 movie in theaters each month"?
The main character of Slaughterhouse-Five, my favorite book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Who is Billy Pilgrim?
I harbor a love/hate relationship with this musician, recently played by Timothee Chalamet in a biopic of his transition from playing folk to rock music.
Who is Bob Dylan?
The huge mushroom cloud of ash, dust, and rocks created by the eruption of a stratovolcano (which is what Mt. Rainier is) that was named after the nephew of famous ancient natural historian, Pliny.
What is a Plinian column?
The 1980's government operation which rounded up thousands of gay people in Poland and created a database of all of them which still exists today.
What is Operation Hyacinth?
This is one of my favorite movies (3 possible correct answers)
What is Dead Poets Society, Promising Young Woman, or Call Me By Your Name?
The manga series, following a high schooler in love with his dead best friend who has been replaced by a monster that looks just like him, that is the only manga series I own.
What is The Summer Hikaru Died?
This song, named after a South American, non-Spanish-speaking country, is the first song I ever learned to play all the way through on the guitar.
What is Brazil by Declan McKenna?
The longest running broadway show of all time.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This Polish, Nobel Prize-winning, woman poet wrote the famous poem "Hitler's First Photograph," in which she makes fun of Adolf Hitler as a baby, talks about his "tummy full of milk," and shames him for his leading the Holocaust.
Who is Wislawa Szymborska?
This is my favorite dessert (which sucks because it's really hard to find a good version of it)
What is tiramisu?
The book by J.D. Salinger that I read annually.
What is Franny and Zooey?
The band that I started listening to purely because I had a crush on my friend's dad, who recommended it to me. Hint: They played "Taro" as well as "Breezeblocks"
Who is alt-J?
The town depicted being bombed during the Spanish Civil War in, perhaps, Picasso's most famous mural.
What is Güernica?
This famous historian was forced to leave Poland in 1959 after his gay ex-lover snitched on him to the Polish secret police and led them to him in his hotel room.
Who is Michel Foucault?
The full name of my bible professor.
Who is Nathan Lilje?
The play, a modern twist on the Italian opera by a similar name, following the tragedy of a Chinese man betrayed by his own country for being gay. It is my favorite play.
What is M. Butterfly?
The Canadian punk band, featured in the classic dating sim Dream Daddy, which is one of my favorite punk bands and I have a t-shirt with the name of one of their albums, Morbid Stuff, on it.
Who is PUP?