Brown in TV/Movies
Last spring, a current Brown student was revealed to be the runner-up on this reality TV competition
Survivor
The Powerhouse of the Cell
What is the Mirochondria?
10
Where can you find the Brown University student mailroom?
Page Robinson
This founder of My Pillow is also one of Trump's most notorious supporters
Mike Lindell
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
The functional group both associated with cow farts and which silences DNA when a single one is attached to the target strand
What is a Methyl Group?
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
This NFL legend, who spent 16 years playing with the Green Bay Packers is here to tell you about all the wonders of Copper Fit
Brett Favre
Scott Porter plays this Ginny and Georgia character, who is also a Brown graduate.
Mayor Paul Randolf
The name of the place where epithelial stem cells reside, also another name for a tomb
What is The Crypt?
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
In 2023, this TV investor sold his majority share of the Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cuban
This Family Guy character graduated from Brown.
Brian Griffin
The type of stem cells that comprise the zygote, made partially from the latin word for "whole."
What is Totipotent?
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)
This beverage is meant to be drank during the "thirst, thirstiest time of the year"
Sprite Cranberry
Famously, Julie Bowen graduated from Brown. She is also known for playing this character on the hit sitcom Modern Family.
Claire Dunphy
The molecule that binds the subunits in the G-Protein Receptors and the subunit is it bound to (Gross Domestic Product and the cousin of Sigma)
What are GDP and the Alpha Subunit?
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
Also named a U.S. ambassador to Ghana, you can get this America's Sweetheart's box set for 2 easy payments of $24.99 (give or take a few dollars)
Shirley Temple