Famous Penn Figures
Words that "ache"
Pop Culture
Love Island
Board Game Night
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If you’re seeing a musical performance you might be in the building named after this University of Pennsylvania dropout who has established schools for communication in both Penn and USC.

Walter Annenberg

100

This word means a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place, and is a homophone for another word that means physical currency

Cache

100

This Singer-Songwriter and rapper, whose album Cuz I Love You was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys, is also a classicaly trained flutist

Lizzo

100

This sport starts out with a score of Love-Love

Tennis

100

You can gain victory points in Settlers of Catan by building these, also known as a resolution to a dispute or conflict

Settlement

200

This Famous Donor made a career out of selling cosmetics products and recently had a residential building named after her

 Estee Lauder

200

Handlebars, pencil, or monopoly man, are all different forms of this type of facial hair

Mustache

200

Netflix and Hulu both released competing documentaries about this disastrous 2017 music festival which was created by Billy McFarland and Ja Rule

Fyre Festival

200

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the titular characters are referred to as these kinds of lovers. It was also the title of a sci-fi teen drama that premiered on the CW in 2014

 Star-Crossed

200

If you want to study music, you’ll probably want to enroll in one of these, also a potential murder room in Clue

Conservatory

300

This Wharton Alum was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity while at Penn, and is well known for his association with the Church of Latter Day Saints

 Jon Huntsman Sr.

300

This “manly” knife originates from a Spanish word that used to refer to hammers. One of its most notable users is the fictional Jason Voorhees

Machete

300

This exercise company’s stock dropped 15% representing a $1.5 billion loss after the release of a holiday video ad.

Peloton

300

This was the first reality dating show to air openly bisexual contestants. Its star’s stage name contains a liquor made from agave

A shot at Love with Tila Tequila
300

Looks like you’re out of luck if you start a round with an off suit hand of these two numbers in Texas hold’em, considered the worst possible starting hand.

2 and 7

400

This College alum, is best known for his time as the CEO of Merck and chairman of Regeneron, as well as having buildings named after him in Penn and Columbia

 Roy Vagelos

400

This part of the human body connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs and allows the passage of air in the body. You might also know it by its more common name, the windpipe

Trachea

400

If you’re watching people get down to Renegade or Obsessed, you’re  probably on this app, of which singer Loren Gray has the most followers

 Tik Tok

400

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the novel Love in the Time of This, an infection of the small intestine that affects 3-5 million people worldwide

Cholera

400

The Domino Effect is the main focus of this type of machine, whose purpose is to perform simple tasks in an intricate fashion

Rube Goldberg

500

This Penn Alum, was the first permanent female president of an Ivy League University. While at Penn, she helped merge Penn Women’s Student Government and Men’s Student Government to ultimately form SCUE

 Judith Rodin

500


This ornamental tuft can be seen in the picture as the feathers above the helmet. It can also mean flamboyance or style

Panache

500

This Multiplayer Online Battle Arena computer game, involves champions working to destroy the opposing team’s nexus. One celebrity who plays is AOC who recently posted her silver ranking to her Instagram story

League of Legends

500

The Lovers, a duo introduced in Saturday Night Live, feature Virginia and Roger Clavin two professors who discuss their sexual adventures, and are played by these cast members

Rachel Dratch and Will Ferrell

500

Rent at this space is a whopping 50$; Good thing you’ll pass GO on your next roll

Boardwalk