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What is a senator?
This dorm, completed in 1932, is the oldest and last satellite dorm still used by students on campus
What is International House?
This sculpture nicknamed "The Bean" stands as the centerpiece of Millenium Park
What is "Cloudgate?"
This popular silent study location is famously shown in the movie Divergent
What is the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library?
This city was destroyed in 79 CE because of Mount Vesuvius.
What is Pompeii?
These two individuals help run all of PDI's operations by booking rooms, ordering food, and send out our weekly emails
Who are Angela and Sarah?
In 1983, this tradition was started as a way for students to wash away winter quarter blues through a week of fun morning activities, culminating in a polar plunge
What is Kuvia?
The Chicago River is dyed this color every year for St. Patrick’s Day.
What is green?
UChicago's campus appears for a brief minute and a half in this recent blockbluster showing the location of the first nuclear reactor
What is "Oppenheimer"?
This 1997 movie focuses on a janitor at MIT.
What is Good Will Hunting?
PDI was founded in this year
What is 2017?
In 1939, UChicago's football team was famously dissolved, rendering the football field obsolete. This building stands in its place now
What is the Regenstein Library?
This Chicago baseball team famously broke an 108-year World Series drought by winning in 2016 called the curse of the [ ]
What is the curse of the Billy Goat?
In a movie released in 1989, the titual characters begin the movie driving on Harper Quad
What is "When Harry Met Sally?"
The last song in this musical is “Tomorrow is a Latter Day.”
What is The Book of Mormon?
The neighborhood studied in the Pedestrian Access in Chicago project from last year
What is Hyde Park?
This person founded the original University of Chicago in 1856 using his wife's family's slaves as collateral and is famous for his senate debates against Abraham Lincoln
Who is Steven Douglas?
In a famous legend, [ ] started the Chicago Fire in a barn by tipping a lantern over
What is Ms. O'Leary's cow?
The Quad and Mansueto library are included in episode 8 of ths 2024 Sci-Fi Apple TV thriller with a two-word title
What is Dark Matter?
In 2008 Sue Bird helped the U.S. win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal in this sport.
What is basketball?
What is the Environmental Justice Activists Handbook?
Breasted Hall, containing the ISAC and its museum, were built in 1931 around a colossal Assyrian wall sculpture depicting this figure
In 1886, Chicago was the site of this significant labor movement event, where a peaceful rally turned violent, resulting in multiple deaths and sparking a worldwide labor rights movement
What is the Haymarket Riot/Affair?
In 2023, production crews flooded the street in front of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures to film scenes for this regal 4-word murder mystery show
What is "The Emporer of Ocean Park"?
In 1994, WIRED magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping “from mind to mind … as viruses leap from body to body.
What is a meme?