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Which Holy Cross graduate is president of Wolf Films which produces the acclaimed television show Law & Order?

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Peter Jankowski ’86 produces Law & Order as president of Wolf Films. “There’s no flight plan for a career in TV, so liberal arts is a great background. At Holy Cross, I learned to think for myself, hold onto my values, and listen to others – all valuable skills in Hollywood,” says producer and former history major Peter Jankowski. President of Wolf Films since 1996, Jankowski oversees the company’s operations and is executive producer of the Law & Order franchise. Before that, he spent 10 years at Universal Television, where he became executive in charge of production for such successful series as Northern Exposure, Coach, and Quantum Leap.

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What was the name of the Holy Cross graduate who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?

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Edward P. Jones, class of 1972 at Holy Cross, is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, Lost in the City, a collection of short stories on the African American working class of the 20th century Washington, D.C. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Award.
His second book, The Known World, is a richly imagined novel set before the Civil War in Virginia. It examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. A book with many points of view, The Known World paints an enormous canvas thick with personalities and situations that show how slavery destroys but can also be transcended. It was also a National Book Award finalist and subsequently won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2005 Mr. Jones was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Mr. Jones' third book All Aunt Hagar's Children was published in 2006. Like Lost in the City it is a collection of short stories that deal with the African American working class of 20th century Washington, D.C. Several of the stories had been previously published in The New Yorker magazine.

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Which Holy Cross football coach was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and also was a practicing medical doctor while not coaching?

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Dr. Edward N. Anderson. Throughout his career, dignity, composure and a penetrating focus were hallmarks of his sideline decorum. He became dean of America's college football coaches and was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame for lasting influence. Beginning with his young life as a star player, Anderson mastered the game as an All-American end under Notre Dame's legendary Knute Rockne. Then, armed with a firm command of the so-called Notre Dame system of football, Anderson entered the collegiate coaching ranks in 1922 and served as a head coach for all but four of the next 43 years. Simultaneously he devoted himself to the practice of medicine and guided his teams to hundreds of victories. Dr. Anderson is a football icon not only for the indelible impression he made on hundreds of young men who had played for him but also for his role as one of the last of an era of gentlemen coaches who had cut their teeth on football during the Rockne era. On the eve of his retirement from Holy Cross in 1964, Dr. Anderson was the game's elder statesman, revered by players, fellow coaches, fans and members of the press. A biography was recently published about his life called: Dr. Eddie Anderson, Hall of Fame College Football Coach: A Biography by Kevin Carroll

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Which Holy Cross graduate is a columnist for Page2 on ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He is also known by the nickname of "The Boston Sports Guy" or just "Sports Guy" for short.

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Bill Simmons' ESPN.com column is notable for being written from the viewpoint of a passionate Boston fan. Simmons often uses extended analogies and references to pop culture (especially from the 1980s and 1990s) in his columns. A native New Englander, Simmons is a passionate fan of the Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Holy Cross Crusaders (his alma mater), and Boston Celtics.

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In which famous novel does Ernest Hemingway mentions Holy Cross?

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The Sun Also Rises

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In which 2002 film does Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a Holy Cross cheerleader named Cindy Bandolini?

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Harvard Man

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In a Time Magazine article Holy Cross was mentioned as one of the schools in "The Catholic Ivy League". What other schools were included in this group?

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Georgetown, Notre Dame, Fordham, St Louis, BC

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Which Holy Cross Baseball coach was often called the "Knute Rockne" of college baseball? He coached 25 players at Holy Cross eventually who played in the major leagues and he was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas in 2007.