Famous Figures
This former president taught at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years
Who is Barack Obama?
This dorm, completed in 1932, is the oldest and last satellite dorm still used by students on campus
What is International House?
This sculpture nicknamed "The Bean" stands as the centerpiece of Millenium Park
What is "Cloudgate?"
This popular silent study location is famously shown in the movie Divergent
What is the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library?
PDI's immigration project is studying this city
What is Chicago?
This professor notoriously hosts Night Owls philosophy sessions along with writing a controversial New Yorker article
Who is Agnes Callard?
In 1983, this tradition was started as a way for students to wash away winter quarter blues through a week of fun morning activities, culminating in a polar plunge
What is Kuvia?
As a monument to the Sears Roebuck and Company's longlasting legacy in the city of Chicago as a mail-order catalog and department store legend, this building stood as the tallest building in the world for 22 years
What is the Willis Tower?
UChicago's campus appears for a brief minute and a half in this recent blockbluster showing the location of the first nuclear reactor
What is "Oppenheimer"?
These two individuals help run all of PDI's operations by booking rooms, ordering food, and send out our weekly emails
Who are Angela and Adam?
This individual is known for taking long and lovely bike rides around campus
Who is Dean John Boyer?
In 1939, UChicago's football team was famously dissolved, rendering the football field obsolete. This building stands in its place now
What is the Regenstein Library?
This Chicago baseball team famously broke an 108-year World Series drought by winning in 2016 called the curse of the [ ]
What is the curse of the Billy Goat?
In a movie released in 1989, the titual characters begin the movie driving on Harper Quad
What is "When Harry Met Sally?"
PDI was founded in this year
What is 2017?
This famous astronomer graduated from the College in 1955 with a BS in Physics and is known for his research into extraterrestial beings and sent the first message into space. He also lived in the Burton-Judson dorms!
Who is Carl Sagan?
This person founded the original University of Chicago in 1856 using his wife's family's slaves as collateral and is famous for his senate debates against Abraham Lincoln
Who is Steven Douglas?
In a famous legend, [ ] started the Chicago Fire in a barn by tipping a lantern over
What is Ms. O'Leary's cow?
(PS the cow was officially pardoned in 1997 yet Elayna still had to learn a song about it in elementary school and it's now stuck in her head for forever)
The Quad and Mansueto library are included in episode 8 of ths 2024 Sci-Fi Apple TV thriller with a two-word title
What is Dark Matter?
PDI worked with Data Science for Everyone to develop policy proposals on this topic
What is data science education integration into K-12 schools?
This famous 20th-century writer is known for her essays on a variety of topics, including "Against Interpretation" and "Notes on Camp"
Who is Susan Sontag?
Breasted Hall, containing the ISAC and its museum, were built in 1931 around a colossal Assyrian wall sculpture depicting this figure
In 1886, Chicago was the site of this significant labor movement event, where a peaceful rally turned violent, resulting in multiple deaths and sparking a worldwide labor rights movement
What is the Haymarket Riot/Affair?
In 2023, production crews flooded the street in front of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures to film scenes for this regal 4-word murder mystery show
What is "The Emporer of Ocean Park"?
This board member has a cameo from George Santos
Who is Zara?