Curriculum - Literary
This poem shares a name with the highest rated episode of Breaking Bad.
What is "Ozymandias"?
In this prop, Euclid proves what would come to be known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
What is Book I, Prop 47?
This was the name of the apartment complex that once housed the St. Gerard's and St. Gianna's dormitories.
What are the Dillon Vista Apartments?
This house has more combined Quis Quid and Ludi Mariales titles than the others.
Who are the Philosophers?
Note: Take that.
This word means: "a fear of long words."
What is "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"?
This author wrote the poem "To An Athlete Dying Young."
Who is A.E. Housman?
This 17th century writer serves as the basis for American political philosophy.
Who is John Locke?
This was the name of the band comprised of WCC faculty members early in the school's history.
Hint: Dr. Olsson was the brilliant keyboardist.
What is "The Technology Policy"?
This past dean of students stepped down in order to found a Catholic trade school.
Who is Dr Kent Lasnoski?
This man is the father of Sinners star, Michael B Jordan.
This was the name of the swineherd who Odysseus meets upon his return to Ithaca.
Who is Eumaeus?
This is the approximate numerical value of the golden ration.
What is 1.618?
This was the name of the food service director before the most esteemed Scott DeLair.
Who is Bruce Liu?
This animal's skull was used in place of a boar's skull for the 2025 Gaudete dinner.
What is a horse?
Note: The 2007 Academy Awards, since they are awarded during March, are given to films made in 2006.
Who is Martin Scorsese?
Note: For the film The Departed.
These two men from Dostoevsky's novels The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment both go to America, but in very different ways.
Who are Dimtri Karamazov and Arkady Svidrigailov?
This is the fundamental theorem of algebra.
What is that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root?
This object was found in the bed of our very own Richard Daniel Becker II during his second semester of Freshmen year.
Note: Danny cannot answer this.
What is a deer carcass?
This event was once a recurring event alongside Ludi Mariales and Quis Quid.
Note: It was briefly revitalized on account of the unique circumstances of Winter Trip 2024.
What are the Winter Olympics
This is the year that Mattel™ released the first Ken doll.
Note: It was in March.
What is 1961?
Note: As of March 2026, Ken has turned 65 years old.
This is the order that the Shakespeare plays read in the curriculum were written.
What is: (Midsummer Night's Dream), Merchant of Venice, (Much Ado About Nothing), (Julius Caesar), Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, (Coriolanus), The Winter's Tale, The Tempest?
This is the author and work of origin of the quote: "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
Who is Immanuel Kant and what is The Groundworks for the Metaphysics of Morals?
This was the amount in cash that a student was fined in cash for literally unplugging the school's entire Wi-Fi network.
Note: This was back when the school was more attached to its Wi-Fi.
What is $400.
Up until recent revisions, students were specifically banned from making this substance.
What is napalm?
The author and name of the modern poem famously broken into four parts:
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IIII. Death by Water
Who is T.S. Eliot and what is "The Waste Land"?