Brunonia in the Media
This author of The Giver graduated in the class of '58
Who is Lois Lowry?
This professor of computer science was Andy in Toy Story
Who is Andy Van Dam?
Delta Brother E. Digby Baltzel popularized this term in his book Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.
What is a WASP?
What is Mad Max:Fury Road?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
What is Pride and Prejudice or Jane Austen?
This book written by Caroline Kepnes was adapted into a Netflix original. The female lead in the first season attended Brown University.
What is You?
This past president of the World Bank and president emeritus of Dartmouth did his undergraduate degree at Brown University
Who is Kim?
The cover art of their first album is a photo of the Columbia chapter chandelier. Other albums include Departure of Batmanglij, Father of the Bride, and Contra.
What is Vampire Weekend?
Light of my life, fire of my loins. Who is this title character of Nabokov's classic about a creepy step father.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Who is Tolstoy or Anna Karenina?
This daughter of a general stars in a namesake play that was shown in the Leeds Theatre last spring.
Who is Hedda Gabler (or Hedda Tesman)?
This author of Crib Sheet is married to fellow economics professor Jesse Shapiro
Who is Emily Oster?
The first chapter of St. Anthony Hall
What is Columbia? (Give half points for Alpha because why the hell not)
This man wrote an autobiography containing a chapter called "Why I am so Clever". He is better known for The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Who is Nietzsche?
You’re my mother. When you married my mother, the two of you became one flesh, so if you’re my father you’re also my mother. Come on, off to England!
Who is Hamlet or William Shakespeare?
This founder of CNN happens to be a Brown alum
Who is Ted Turner?
This Brown alum and member of the Massachusetts Board of Education reformed much of the public school system, making the school day longer and setting up "normal schools" for teachers to be trained.
Who is Horace Mann?
F Scott Fitzgerald wrote about this famous party at Yale's chapter of St. Anthony Hall. We are also invited!
What is Pump and Slipper?
This creator of transcendental idealism had a servant named Lampe. 45 gets a little upset whenever other people misquote this figure.
Who is Kant?
and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
Who is Molly Bloom or Ulysses or James Joyce?
Brown Alum Daveed Diggs, class of 2004, is best known for his role on Hamilton, but he is most soundly remembered by members of the House for being a member of this experimental hip hop group.
What is Clipping?
This professor of Africana at Brown University is famous for her commentary on hip hop
Who is Tricia Rose?
This man based the fraternity St. Ray's off of St. A's in his book I am Charlotte Simmons
The black witch comes at the end of this WWII magical realist novel about a boy who refuses to become a grocer by refusing to grow after the age of three
What is the Tin Drum?
‘Forgive me, but I don’t believe you,’ Woland replied, ‘that cannot be: manuscripts don’t burn.’
Who is Mikhal Bulgakov or the Devil in the Master and the Margarita?