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This Olympic mens figure skater is nicknamed the "Quad God."
Who is Ilia Malinin?
This poet won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and was a close friend of Dan Chiasson's, last semester he taught a class on her poetry.
Who was Louise Glück?
This city hosts the annual Met Gala.
What is New York City?
Leonardo da Vinci painted this famous portrait of a woman in the 16th century.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This is the anniversary that Wellesley College is celebrating this year (aka how old Wellesley is turning this year).
What is 150 years? Or what is the 150th anniversary?
The FAA said it would close this air space for 10 days due to supposed security concerns, but ended up only closing it for 8 hours.
What is El Paso, Texas?
This college was attended by the woman poet and novelist credited for advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is most famous for writing The Bell Jar.
What is Smith College?
This model and influencer became the world's youngest transgender model at the age of 12. She is known for her bleached hair and funny TikTok personality.
Who is Alex Consani?
This popular type of paint, new in the 20th century, is both water soluble when wet and water resistant when dry.
What is Acrylic paint?
HOST QUIZ: This is the number of organizations currently present that Zoë is involved in right now.
Kim Jong Un named this person as his successor, according to South Korea's spy agency.
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "I, Too" in response to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing."
Langston Hughes
Lady Gaga's dress was made of this unconventional and shocking material at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
Pablo Picasso pioneered this modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century.
What is Cubism?
HOST QUIZ: This is the number of years Jessica has been involved in student journalism.
What is six?
This newspaper's CEO, Will Lewis, stepped down after mass lay offs.
What is the Washington Post?
This pen name belongs to the author of a classic 19th century novel, recently made into a film directed by Emerald Fennell, which received a lot of negative press for being unfaithful to the novel. Her and her sister were both famous novelists.
Who is "Ellis Bell"?
What is Versace?
This avant-garde genre of art was developed in the 20th century and centers around the actions of the artist and their relation with the public. It is a medium between theater and art.
What is performance art?
What band, that has performed for Wellesley LDOC (and that Zoë loves), just released a new song as a teaser for their new album?
What is MUNA?
This member of the Trump administration was grilled on Capitol Hill last week for visiting Epstein's Island, although he claims not to have had any personal relationship with Epstein.
Who is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick?
This contemporary author shares her first name with a country in the Caribbean. She is known for her novels Annie John and A Small Place, which discusses tourism in Antigua. She now teaches at Harvard.
Who is Jamaica Kincaid?
What is Chanel?
Vincent Van Gogh is said to have cut off his ear because of an argument with this French artist who moved to Tahiti and is criticized for his primitivist view of non-European cultures.
Paul Gauguin
The five highest volcanoes on Earth are located in these mountains.