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This author of The Giver graduated in the class of '58

Who is Lois Lowry?

100

This professor of computer science was Andy in Toy Story

Who is Andy Van Dam?

100

Delta Brother E. Digby Baltzel popularized this term in his book Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.

What is a WASP?

100
This movie directed by George Miller stars Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. 

What is Mad Max:Fury Road?

100

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

What is Pride and Prejudice or Jane Austen?

200

This book written by Caroline Kepnes was adapted into a Netflix original. The female lead in the first season attended Brown University.

What is You?

200

This past president of the World Bank and president emeritus of Dartmouth did his undergraduate degree at Brown University

Who is Kim?

200

The cover art of their first album is a photo of the Columbia chapter chandelier. Other albums include Departure of Batmanglij, Father of the Bride, and Contra.

What is Vampire Weekend?

200

Light of my life, fire of my loins. Who is this title character of Nabokov's classic about a creepy step father.

Who is Lolita?
200

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Who is Tolstoy or Anna Karenina?

300

This daughter of a general stars in a namesake play that was shown in the Leeds Theatre last spring.

Who is Hedda Gabler (or Hedda Tesman)?

300

This author of Crib Sheet is married to fellow economics professor Jesse Shapiro

Who is Emily Oster?

300

The first chapter of St. Anthony Hall

What is Columbia? (Give half points for Alpha because why the hell not)

300

This man wrote an autobiography containing a chapter called "Why I am so Clever". He is better known for The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Who is Nietzsche?

300

You’re my mother. When you married my mother, the two of you became one flesh, so if you’re my father you’re also my mother. Come on, off to England!

Who is Hamlet or William Shakespeare?

400

This founder of CNN happens to be a Brown alum

Who is Ted Turner?

400

This Brown alum and member of the Massachusetts Board of Education reformed much of the public school system, making the school day longer and setting up "normal schools" for teachers to be trained.

Who is Horace Mann?

400

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote about this famous party at Yale's chapter of St. Anthony Hall. We are also invited!

What is Pump and Slipper?

400

This creator of transcendental idealism had a servant named Lampe. 45 gets a little upset whenever other people misquote this figure.

Who is Kant?

400

and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes

Who is Molly Bloom or Ulysses or James Joyce?

500

Brown Alum Daveed Diggs, class of 2004, is best known for his role on Hamilton, but he is most soundly remembered by members of the House for being a member of this experimental hip hop group.

What is Clipping?

500

This professor of Africana at Brown University is famous for her commentary on hip hop

Who is Tricia Rose?

500

This man based the fraternity St. Ray's off of St. A's in his book I am Charlotte Simmons

Who is Tom Wolfe?
500

The black witch comes at the end of this WWII magical realist novel about a boy who refuses to become a grocer by refusing to grow after the age of three

What is the Tin Drum?

500

‘Forgive me, but I don’t believe you,’ Woland replied, ‘that cannot be: manuscripts don’t burn.’

Who is Mikhal Bulgakov or the Devil in the Master and the Margarita?