Brearley
Brearley was founded in this year
1884
This gymnast is the most decorated gymnast in world championships history
Simone Biles
Finish the lyric (you must sing!): Do you ever feel...
Like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, afraid to start again
This country has the world’s largest film industry
USA
“I think therefore I am” is a famous quote by which philosopher (it's not Billie Eilish😉)
Descartes
On this word of the Brearley anthem, students make a collective gesture
"Triumphant"
In 2019, this team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit calling for equal pay
US women's national soccer team
These two sets of two movies both released on the same weekends, drew people to the theaters, became prevalent in brand marketing campaigns, and helped promote the other movie
Oppenheimer+Barbie, Wicked+Gladiator
This continent has the largest number of countries
Africa
This book’s opening line is: “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Pride and Prejudice
This is the one required full-credit class students take all four years of high school
English
In this sport, players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles
Curling
This 1990s group who sang Champagne Supernova is launching a reunion tour in 2025
Oasis
These two countries both border the largest number of other countries in the world, with 14 neighbors each
China, Russia
This economist first popularized the theory of the invisible hand and free markets
Adam Smith
These are the 6 upper school values: state the acronym and what each letter stands for
PIIECE: Purpose, Inclusion, Integrity, Excellence, Courage, Empathy
These two football teams are tied for having the most Super Bowl wins with six wins each
Steelers, Patriots
The second season of this fake reality show was released on Netflix in December
Squid Game
This is the world’s smallest country
Vatican city
Alan Turing used this woman’s work to create the technology involved in the world’s first computer
Ada Lovelace
These are five of the school’s past principals
Hull, Winn Barlow, Dunn, Halpert, Mitchell, McIntosh, Arnold, Croswell, Mellick, Van Doren, Northrop, Dean
This sport played a large role in China-US relations in the 1970s
Ping Pong
What movie is this famous quote from: “I gotta go see about a girl”
Good Will Hunting
This country produces 90 percent of the world’s advanced semiconductors and a 68% market share of all global semiconductor production
Taiwan
This society invented the seven-day calendar (even though Brearley prefers a six-day calendar)
The Babylonians