POP CULTURE
This television star received an honorary degree from Bowdoin and is known for his role as a brain surgeon at a teaching hospital in Seattle, Washington
Who is Patrick Dempsey ?
What major river flows through the town of Brunswick, Maine?
Androscoggin River
This anti-slavery novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe while living on Federal Street, Brunswick with her Bowdoin professor husband?
What is Uncle tom's cabin?
What channel is WBOR?
91.1
As of last year, 61 percent of students surveyed preferred this dining hall over the other.
What is thorne?
Maine’s minor league baseball team, the Portland Sea Dogs, is affiliated with this MLB team.
What is the Boston Red Sox?
The name of this California based and Filipino-owned boba shop has gained rapid popularity in Brunswick since opening last year.
What is Quickly ?
From 1822-1824, three famous Americans were students at Bowdoin: Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wadsworth Longfellow, and which eventual U.S. president?
Franklin Pierce
This besuited philosophical Bowdoin organization, that counted Joshua Chamberlain amongst its most prominent members, was founded in 1805 and is still running today.
What is the Peucinian society?
Seventeen percent of the class of 2026 indicated in their first year entrance surveys that they possessed what type of identification when they arrived in Fall ’22?
Fake ID
Bowdoin alum Peter Buck, a nuclear physicist, invested $1,000 to a family friend to open a business which led to the creation of this notable sandwich franchise?
What is the subway?
Bowdoin has an alternative mascot, the sun, seen many places around campus such as Smith Union, Whittier Field, and merchandise. Why is that?
When Bowdoin was founded, it was the easternmost college in the United States and thus the first to see the sunrise.
The stairway in this classroom building perfectly fits a board all the way from the basement to the top floor. That is where they used to store the cadavers and bodies in the medical school on Campus. The gap and loop system still exists here.
What is Adam’s Hall?
This building on campus founded Bowdoin's first affinity group, then called (“Afro-American Alliance”) and became the first African-American cultural center in the state of Maine during the Civil Rights movement.
What is Russwurm House?
Which country outside of the United States has the most members of the Bowdoin Class of 2026, with a total of six students?
China
This fictional Maine town based off Bangor has served as a setting in many of horror author Stephen King’s novels including “It”, “Insomnia”, and “Bag of Bones”
What is Derry, Maine.
The residents known as Roskva, Birk, Gro, Søren, and Lilja are these large wooden structures which can be found at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay.
Who are the Giant Trolls?
Back in the day, one quirky tradition at Bowdoin occurred during homecoming week, where the social houses hosted this-piece-of furniture-building competition. A large community bonfire was constructed, and all losing pieces were thrown into the fire.
(What did they build)
What are Wooden Chairs?
This team sport, not affiliated with the NCAA, managed to place 5th in the division III national championships losing to the Air Force Academy in 2019. Last year, this team had a historic 14–1 game record and was ranked as the sixth DIII team in the nation.
What is Ultimate Frisbee?
This Environmental Studies professor gave the keynote speech to the class of 2026 at Bowdoin’s 221st convocation in August 2022
Who is Connie Chang?
This popular rapper is banned from Bowdoin campus after their ivies performance in 2012
Who is Childish Gambino?
L.L. Bean built the first Bootmobile in 2012 for the company's 100th Anniversary. Now, this many bootmobiles exist, and collectively they have traveled 350,000 miles, appeared at hundreds of events in 25 states, two countries, and dozens of college campuses.
what is 3?
A young student fell off the turrets of this Bowdoin building in the 1800s looking at a bird's nest. Their soul is supposed to haunt the building and if you are alone there studying late at night and hear heavy footsteps, it is theirs.
What is Searles?
The first orientation trip held at Bowdoin consisted of a small group of students and a professor to Kent Island to study ecology in the Bay of Fundy. What year was this?
1982
On November 11th 2022, this person became the first in the class of 2026 to win Polar Bear of the Week according to the the Orient for their performance in a rugby game against Vassar.
Who is Kyra Bishop?