How closely have you followed Princetonians in the news in the last 12 months? Test your recall with our annual quiz.
From The Washington Post, “Senate Confirms ___________ for Fed Chair, Handing Trump’s Pick Enormous Influence Over the Economy.”
From The New Yorker, “______________ and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker Win George Polk Awards.”
From NJ.com, “Meet The Woman Who Will Now Lead 7.4K N.J. College Students,” this incoming president of The College of New Jersey.
From The Washington Post: Thirty years after it was stolen from the home of Ernest “Pick” Heller ’22 and his wife, Rose, “Othello & Desdemona,” a painting by this artist, was recovered by the FBI.
From CNN Money, “Revlon Names First Female CEO in Its 86-year History” — this alumna.
From The New York Times: “Simply Perfect.” Justify received the headlines (justifiably) when he won horse-racing’s Triple Crown; these alumni part-owners were happy to cheer him on at the Belmont Stakes.
From USA Today at the start of Paul Manafort’s Federal corruption trial in Virginia, “Judge ___________ Known as Taskmaster, Unafraid to Speak his Mind.”
From India West: “‘Manipulating Numbers Makes Me Feel Happy’, Says ___________ Upon Winning Fields Medal, Mathematics Highest Honor.”
From The New York Times, this “influential American architect and theorist whose buildings and best-selling books helped inspire the movement known as postmodernism” died at age 93.
From the Los Angeles Times, this Caltech scientist was among three awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for sparking “a revolution in evolution.”
From CNN Philippines, shortly after receiving an international press-freedom award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, this reporter and publisher was charged with tax evasion by the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
From NPR, “Meet __________, Trump’s Pick For Joint Chiefs Chairman.”