MEET
When did Mustafa join MEET?
2006
This Italian sports car brand's logo features a prancing horse, and its cars are practically synonymous with the word "supercar."
What is Ferrari?
In 1896, the British Empire and the Zanzibar Sultanate engaged in a conflict that holds the record as the shortest war in history, lasting this long.
What is 38 minutes?
This pastry dough is used for eclairs and profiteroles.
What is Choux?
The degree you get after committing several years of your life, several thousand dollars, and possibly your sanity, just so people can call you "Doctor" at parties despite never touching a patient.
What is a PhD (Doctorate)?
Which cohort had a Y4?
2020
This luxury fashion house, founded by a French designer in 1910, is famous for its interlocking-C logo and iconic No. 5 perfume.
Chanel
Due to their ability to slow their heart rate down to a third of its usual pace, this mammal can hold its breath underwater for 40 minutes.
What is a Sloth
This classic dessert earned its name because the original 18th-century recipe required exactly one pound of each of its four main ingredients.
What is Pound Cake?
A British woman wrote a book about a boy wizard on napkins while broke, and it somehow spawned a theme park, eight movies, and several adults who still identify unironically by their "house."
Who is J.K. Rowling?
Which year MEET summer had a pool party for all cohorts?
2015
This Hollywood actor has been the face of Dior's men's fragrance "Sauvage" since 2015, appearing in campaigns filmed in the Utah desert.
Who is Johnny Depp?
Despite looking like weightless cotton, an average one of these actually weighs 500,000 kg.
What is a cloud?
A chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars is what makes food brown in the oven / in higher temperatures.
What is the Maillard reaction?
This is the academic term for copying someone else's work and calling it yours, which is treated with roughly the same severity as an actual felony on every campus in existence.
What is plagiarism?
The oldest laptops we have are from which year?
2018
This brand's red-soled shoes are so recognizable that the color of the SOLE, a part of the shoe nobody is even supposed to see, became a trademarked flex.
What is Christian Louboutin?
This historic institution of higher education was already holding classes for over two centuries before the Aztec Empire was founded in 1325.
What is Oxford University?
Taking its name from the Italian word for "wheels," this is a specific shape of wagon-wheel pasta.
What is Ruote?
He's the one on the 100$ bill
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Who is MEET's first CEO?
Anat Binur
This global pop star's Met Gala looks are so aggressively extra that entire luxury houses build custom, one-time-only outfits just for the four hours she'll wear them.
Who is Rihanna
The most distant object visible to the naked human eye and is 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
In 2009, the state of Vermont sued the makers of Log Cabin syrup for this offense, because their packaging falsely implied the product contained real maple syrup.
What is mislabeling?
Orwell wrote a book so bleak about government surveillance that we now casually use its vocabulary to complain about being watched by, like, a targeted ad for shoes.
What is 1984?