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Xan's dad, Paul Faber, was the Dean of Arts and Sciences at this local university.
What is Fort Hays State University?
Columbia University in the City of New York used to be known by this shorter name.
Xan is a big fan of consuming media on competing platforms (e.g., watching TikToks on Instagram). In 2017, Twitter discontinued uploads of this app, a personal favorite of Xan's. It is also the name of a restaurant near Columbia.
What is Vine?
Technically Xan grew up in this ghost town on the outskirts of Hays.
What is Yocemento?
Columbia was the last ivy league institution to do this in 1983.
What is admit women undergraduates?
One of Xan's favorite performers, David Byrne, was born here. Bonus point if you can get the city.
What is Dumbarton, Scotland?
Many residents of Xan's hometown are descendants of these migrants, known for their green bean dumpling soup.
What are Vulga Germans?
Columbia is the 2nd largest landowner in NYC; this is the first.
What is the Catholic Church?
Waldsee is part of the Concordia Language Villages, which were founded in 1961 when this person was the US President.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This is the local newspaper, published six days a week.
What is the Hays Daily News?
This Texan politician was a writer for the Columbia Spectator in the early 1990s.
Who is Beto O'Rourke?
This language is a relative of German but is only spoken by about 72,000 people, most of whom are natives to a small chain of islands located north of Scotland.
What is Faroese?
These are the official sister cities of Hays.
What are Santa Maria, Paraguay and Xinzheng, Henan, China?
Columbia was established by royal charter from King George II in response to this rival university's founding.
What is Princeton University?
Xan loves to watch Midsomer Murders, a classic British mystery show. She also happens to own and play this far-out instrument used in the show's theme song.
What is the theremin?