Memory Lane
Cancún, a beautiful beachside city as well as the site of the 2025 spring break trip, is located in this Mexican State.
Quintana Roo
The United States
Canada/Mexico
This mad scientist, the villain of the Sonic the hedgehog series, seeks to steal the magical Chaos Emeralds and conquer the world.
Dr. Eggman (Robotnik)
Luca's home state of Washington is known for its beautiful Pacific Northwest climate, similar to that of this Canadian province which borders it to the north.
British Columbia
English and Greek are both written using this kind of writing system, in which every character corresponds to either a single consonant or vowel sound– never both.
Alphabet
This planet, the second from the Sun, is known for its hellish surface conditions– covered in a thick sulfuric acid cloud and without any liquid water.
Venus
The first ever Fancy Dinner Night, which took place at a modest French bistro on Newbury Street, was followed by an impromptu photoshoot of the group sporting our dinnerware in front of this famous Boston landmark. (+1 First Letter)
The Reflecting Pool
Bolivia
Peru/Chile/Paraguay/Argentina/Brasil
This evil android, the antagonist of the Portal series, was voiced by Ellen McLain, who also famously provided her voice as the announcer in TF2.
GladOS
This is how old Luca turned this year in February.
22
The world's most spoken native language is Mandarin Chinese with over 990 million speakers– followed by this language, the second most natively spoken language with around 484 million speakers.
Spanish
This is the term for the boundary of a black hole, the point at which the velocity needed to escape the black hole exceeds the speed of light– meaning nothing can escape.
Event Horizon
Big E, the New England State fair which we attended in 2024 is home to various food offerings from across the states that comprise the Northeast– this food and drink pairing offered by the Main house being a unanimous group favorite.
Smoked Salmon and Rootbeer
France and Germany (+1 Steal)
Belgium/Luxembourg/Switzerland
Pokemon's 5th generation featured one of the most in-depth narratives the series has ever had, sporting this iconic rival and antagonist– bent on liberating all Pokemon from their owners.
N
This, Luca's longtime favorite soda, is extremely popular in the American South- largely Texas and Louisiana, the latter of which being where he tried it for the very first time.
Dr. Pepper
The majority of the languages spoken in central and eastern Europe, such as Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian, and Russian, belong to this widespread language family.
Slavic
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter all share this two word designation– a reference to their size and lack of a solid surface.
Gas Giant
While we were successfully able to observe the breathtaking solar eclipse of 2024 from the graveyard of a small Vermont town, our original goal was actually this city instead– the most populous in the state, and where Senator Bernie Sanders was mayor from 1981 to 1989.
Burlington
India and China
Nepal/Bhutan/Myanmar/Pakistan*
In 2017's run and gun hit Cuphead, brothers Cuphead and Mugman must battle various foes in order to collect their souls and hand them over to the Devil, assisted by this scheming right hand man.
King Dice
This Nintendo console was Luca's first ever gaming console, and played a large part in shaping the man he is today.
Nintendo DS
While the old testament of the Bible was written in Hebrew, the new testament, written thousands of years later, was originally written in this southern European language.
Greek
This Soviet satellite was the first ever launched in human history, and its name literally translates to "satellite" in Russian.
Sputnik (One)
This item, stolen from where it originally stood in the 5th floor bathroom of White Hall, made its rounds for several weeks appearing in a new surprise location each day– including stairwells, elevators, and even dorm rooms.
Soap/Hand Sanitizer Dispenser
Libya, Sudan, and Israel
Egypt
The beloved dark fantasy RPG Dark Souls is filled with many memorable and difficult boss battles, including the fight against this iconic final boss– the first lord of cinders.
Gwyn
This is the number of different dorms and apartments Luca has lived throughout his time at Northeastern.
4 (White Hall, West Village, Westland St., Mass Ave.)
Hindi, Tamil, Thai, Burmese and many others are examples of languages written with this kind of a script, in which base consonant characters are slightly modified with other marks to indicate vowel pairings.
Abugida
This animal, while not the first ever in space, was the first to ever orbit earth aboard a Soviet spacecraft– her survival was never expected, however, and she tragically died due to hypothermia only hours into the flight.
Laika