Brown in TV/Movies
Last spring, a current Brown student was revealed to be the runner-up on this reality TV competition
Survivor
This 18th-century Scottsman is known for works such as The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
10
Where can you find the Brown University student mailroom?
Page Robinson
This is the densest observed non-black hole object.
Neutron star/magnetar
Laura Linney graduated from Brown in 1986. Most famously, she is known for her role as Meryl Burbank in this movie, which is also the name of a TV show that takes place in the movie.
The Truman Show
This 18th-century philosopher is best known for creating the categorical imperative
Immanuel Kant
This SNL character played by Tom Hanks is famous for muttering the quote "Any questions?"
David S. Pumpkins
This Brown University building is famous for many things, one of which is being voted as the ugliest building in Rhode Island.
The Science Library
Also, a homophone of a human organ, this is what the strings in string theory are anchored on.
Branes
Scott Porter plays this Ginny and Georgia character, who is also a Brown graduate.
Mayor Paul Randolf
In 2016, a current Brown professor (J Michael Kosterlitz ) was awarded this subject's Nobel Prize
Physics
This South African, who died in 2013, muttered the quote "the greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
This Brown University building has a greenhouse on the top floor, which is open for students to access.
85 Waterman
(will accept the environmental science department building, but not if someone gives a more specific answer
Other than our own sun, this is the closest star to us.
Proxima Centauri
This Family Guy character graduated from Brown.
Brian Griffin
In 2023, this Harvard professor won the Nobel prize in economics for her work on Women's participation in the labor force
Claudia Goldin
This is the year that Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House. It is also the year that the first iPhone was released.
2007
What are the two Brown University cafes on campus that will be open this summer, and where are they located?
(Blue Room and ERC, Faunce and Barus and Holley)
Discovered/named by Albert Einstein, this is the mechanism by which magnetism can be viewed as electric fields.
Special Relativity
Famously, Julie Bowen graduated from Brown. She is also known for playing this character on the hit sitcom Modern Family.
Claire Dunphy
This civil rights activist, who was a guest speaker at Brown in 2023, was once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list
Angela Davis
In his inaugural address in 1877, this U.S. president uttered the quote, "He serves his party best who serves the country best."
Rutherford B. Hayes.
This is the name of the women's college that merged with Brown in 1971.
Pembroke College
This is the name for the region of distorted space around a spinning black hole.
Ergosphere