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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 54 11/3/20 4:00 PM Are you an aficionado of Cornell lore? Do you know how many people were in the fi rst graduating class in 1869 or how many fans can fi t in the Crescent? How Ezra fi gured into a space shuttle launch . . . and where Superman spent his senior year? Try your hand at CAM’s extravaganza of Big Red factoids—then check the answers on page 90 and see how you did!

1. The First General 6. Approximately how many 8. What Ancient Greek hero Announcement of Cornell’s hours did the 1969 Straight is immortalized in a statue, founding stated that “all takeover last? made of chrome car bumpers, candidates for admission to a) Twenty-four outside the Statler Hotel? any department or course b) Thirty-six a) Achilles must present satisfactory c) Forty-eight b) Odysseus evidences” of what? d) Sixty c) Heracles a) A s econdary school d) Perseus education or its equivalent 7. What year was the Student b) Being at least s eventeen Homophile League—only the 9. How many steps are there years o f age second gay rights group ever to the top of McGraw Tower? c) Good moral character organized on a U.S. college a) 151 d) Sound physical health campus—founded on the Hill? b) 161 a) 1965 c) 171 2. Two verses of the “Alma b) 1968 d) 181 Mater” are traditionally sung; c) 1971 how many does the song d) 1974 actually have? a) Three b) Four c) Five d) Six

3. The Medical College’s teaching can trace its roots to a charter, still held in its archives, that was signed by what leader? a) General George Washington b) Governor c) King George III of England d) President John Adams

4. Cornell’s red-and-white football uniforms inspired the logo of what company? a) Purina b) Coca-Cola c) Target d) Campbell’s S oup

5. Which of the following were Hlma COords JVIater by CCKlmot among the rules for freshmen Nosea Smith, '74, and HrehlbaUt during the first half of the CroswvU COcclm, twentieth century? He '7* !—ar a) Wearing a c lass beanie 1. Far a - bove Cay - 2. Far u - ga's b) S taying off the grass a - bove wa - ters, the bus - With its y humming waves of c) Avoiding certain bars Of bine, the bust-ling town, d) All of the above . IMAGES: OPPOSITE, LINDSAY FRANCE/UREL; THIS PAGE, TOWER, JASON KOSKI/UREL; FOOTBALL PLAYER, RMC; MUSIC, HATHI TRUST ± i

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Melodj iuedbj pennlMlon of The OUnr Mm Co., of tfc«oopjHffaU 12. ILR occupies buildings, 15. How far do students have to completed in 1913, that were swim continuously to pass once home to what? Cornell’s swim test? a) CALS a) 50 yards b) College of Home b) 75 yards Economics c) 100 yards c) College of Veterinary d) 125 yards 10. In 1915, Touchdown I, the Big Medicine Red’s first live bear mascot, d) Mechanical engineering was abducted by students at an Ivy rival—whose football 13. The University is occasionally team promptly lost to Cornell, confused with Cornell College, ending a thirty-game winning a private liberal arts school. streak. What school was it? Where is it? a) Penn a) Nebraska b) Harvard b) Illinois c) Yale c) Indiana d) Columbia d) Iowa

11. How many guest rooms does 14. The Hot Truck was founded 16. How many people were in the Statler Hotel have? by the son of the proprietor of Cornell’s first graduating a) 98 what legendary Collegetown class in 1869? b) 116 eatery/watering hole? a) Six c) 137 a) Royal Palm Tavern b) Eight d) 153 b) Zinck’s c) Twelve c) Johnny’s B ig Red Grill d) Sixteen d) The Nines

17. What Hollywood star played Mark Whitacre, PhD ’83, in a 2009 comedy-drama? a) Ben Affleck b) Jude Law c) Hugh Jackman

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 56 11/3/20 4:00 PM 18. 1914, PhD 22. A.D. White’s second wife, 1926, author of A History of Helen Magill White, held what Cornell, wooed his future wife, academic distinction? Alison Mason Kingsbury, after a) First female professor of she came to campus for what engineering at CU high-profile project? b) Youngest president of a) Installing the S age Vassar College 26. Which Peter, Paul, and Mary 29. Cornell’s Lake Source Cooling Chapel organ c) First female member of hit did Peter Yarrow ’59 base system pulls water from the b) Recasting the Clock on a poem that Leonard depths of Cayuga, where the Tower chimes d) First woman to earn a PhD Lipton ’62 wrote as an temperature is about what c) Painting the S traight in the U.S. undergrad? year-round? lobby murals a) “B lowin’ in the Wind” a) 33° F d) Restoring the A.D. b) “Puff, t he Magic Dragon” b) 39° F White statue c) “If I H ad a H ammer” c) 47° F d) “500 Miles” d) 55° F 19. How many feet beneath Alumni Field is the Cornell 27. What is Cayuga’s distinction Electron Storage Ring, among the Finger Lakes? the University’s particle a) Deepest accelerator? b) Longest a) 10 c) Most surface area b) 40 d) Largest volume of water c) 100 d) 400 28. Charles Feeney ’56 has 23. What item of apparel, worn given some $1 billion to the 20. What piece of equipment is by Ezra on his wedding day in University, including its single depicted behind Ezra in his 1831, did G. David Low ’80 largest gift: $350 million for Arts Quad statue? carry into space on the . In what field did a) Telegraph shuttle Columbia in 1989? he make his fortune? b) Light bulb a) Cravat a) Radio s tations c) Anvil b) Socks b) Cruise lines d) Printing press c) Gloves c) Duty-free s hops d) Vest d) Real estate development 30. How many former Cornell 21. Can you match these 24. What did Ezra build and presidents are interred in the Cornellians to their endow in downtown Ithaca crypt? inventions? in the 1860s? a) None a) Robert Moog, PhD ’65 a) Public library b) One b) Gregory Pincus 1924 b) Public hospital c) Two c) Harry Coover Jr., PhD ’44 c) Orphanage d) Three d) Jeff Hawkins ’ 79 d) Home for Civil War widows e) Wilson Greatbatch ’50 f) Willis C arrier, MEng 1901 25. Presidents and Jacob Gould 1) Birth control pill (b) Schurman both served as 2) Air conditioning (f) ambassador to what country? 3) Implantable pacemaker (e) a) The United Kingdom 4) Super Glue (c) b) France 5) Palm Pilot (d) c) Italy 6) Synthesizer (a) d)

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 57 11/3/20 4:00 PM 36. Superman star Christopher Reeve ’74 earned a BA in theatre arts from Cornell, despite leaving campus after three years to do what? a) S tudy acting at Juilliard b) Join the Royal Shakespeare Company c) Attend Yale’s drama s chool d) Take a r ole on Broadway

37. Which of the following is not the subject of a Cornell collection? a) Beekeeping 31. How many bells were part of 33. What year did the Ithaca b) 39. In 2000, the Clinton the when they Commons open as a c) Insects Presidential Library received first rang in 1868, and how pedestrian mall? d) Origami 287,900 nanoscale versions many are there now? a) 1969 of what musical instrument— a) Eight; nineteen b) 1975 38. What are the names of East carved on a silicon chip and b) Nine; twenty-one c) 1980 Hill’s current nesting pair of embedded in a paperweight— c) Eleven; eighteen d) 1984 red-tailed hawks? made at the Cornell d) Twelve; twenty-four a) Martha and Ezra Nanofabrication Facility? 34. Cornell was the first U.S. b) Jennie and Andrew a) Guitar university to offer a major in c) Big Red and Arthur b) Saxophone 32. Can you rank these what field? d) Nellie and Willard c) Violin schools/colleges by their a) Women’s s tudies d) Drum undergrad enrollment b) Landscape architecture (as of fall 2019), from c) Rural sociology 40. As a child actor in his first smallest to largest? d) American studies and only film, Peter Ostrum, b) AAP DVM ’84, starred in what? f) ILR 35. What is the seating capacity a) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate e) Human Ecology of the Schoellkopf Crescent? Factory g) Business a) 18,750 b) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a) CALS b) 19,250 c) The Bad News Bears d) Engineering c) 20,375 d) The Love Bug c) Arts & Sciences d) 21,500

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 58 11/3/20 4:00 PM 41. Cornell awarded the world’s first degree in what field? a) Journalism b) Veterinary medicine c) Fiber science d) Engineering physics

46. For what book did Carl Sagan win a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction? a) Cosmos b) Dragons of Eden c) Broca’s Brain d) The Demon-Haunted World

47. Which of the following ingredients is not part of the 42. What year did a pumpkin Bo Burger, a meaty delicacy 48. The legendary R. Harrison mysteriously appear atop the beloved by generations of Sanford coached rowing at Clock Tower? Cornellians? Cornell for thirty-four years a) 1995 a) Thousand Island dressing starting in 1937. What was b) 1996 b) Fried egg his nickname? c) 1997 c) Cheese a) Skinny 50. What work of fiction has a d) 1998 d) Onions b) Sandman Cornell-trained veterinarian as c) Santa its hero? d) Stork a) Black Beauty b) Water for Elephants 49. What classic book was the c) Free Willy basis for an operatic cantata d) Lassie, Come Home that had its world premiere in New York in 2005? 51. What famous rocker—a a) Beloved by Toni Morrison, member of the Class of ’72 MA ’55 who’d scored a perfect 800 b) The Good Earth by Pearl on his math SATs—studied Buck, M A ’25 engineering on the Hill before c) Gravity’s Rainbow by dropping out to pursue music? Thomas P ynchon ’59 a) Huey Lewis d) The Elements of Style by b) John Mellencamp William S trunk Jr., PhD 1896, c) Billy Joel & E.B. White 1921 d) David Lee Roth

43. Which of the following is not an ice cream flavor at the 52. Can you match these East Hill buildings to their superstar architects? Dairy Bar? a) Thom Mayne b) I.M. Pei c) Richard Meier ’56, B Arch ’57 d) Rem Koolhaas a) Cornelia’s D ark Secret 1) Johnson Museum (I.M. Pei) 2) Milstein Hall (Rem Koolhaas) b) A.D. White Chocolate c) Ezra’s M orning Cup d) Big Red Bear Tracks

44. What veteran comedy star is a longtime A.D. White Professor-at-Large? a) S teve Martin b) Bill Murray c) 3) Weill Hall (Richard Meier '56, BArch '57) 4) Gates Hall (Thom Mayne) d) S tephen Fry

45. Which variety of apple was not developed at Cornell? a) Gala b) Macoun c) Empire d) Jonagold

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 59 11/3/20 4:00 PM 56. What sculpture by Alberto 58. In what Persian Gulf country Giacometti, depicting a does haunting solitary figure, is have a branch that grants one of the Johnson Museum’s MD degrees? most prominent and valuable a) Qatar works of art? b) United Arab Emirates a) Standing Woman c) Saudi Arabia b) Man Pointing d) Kuwait c) Walking Man II d) Walking Woman I 59. What namesake of a campus building founded ? 57. Edward Tiffin Cook 1910, a) Willard Straight 1901 54. After a career in the NFL, one of the Big Red’s earliest b) Olive Tjaden ’25 53. Can you put these mid- Big Red football legend Ed Olympic medalists, shared c) twentieth-century events Marinaro ’72, BS ’73, gained the gold in what track and d) Anna Comstock 1885 in chronological order? fame as an actor in what field event at the 1908 b) ILR school joins the new Eighties TV drama? Summer Games? SUNY system a) “St. Elsewhere” a) Discus t hrow a) b) “Miami Vice” b) Long jump becomes president of CU c) “L.A. L aw” c) Pole vault d) Kurt Vonnegut ’44 d) “Hill S treet Blues” d) Shot put publishes his first novel c) The U-Halls are built on 55. What Cornell benefactor’s West Campus opulent mansion, later sold to a fraternity, burned to the ground in 1906? a) Henry Sage b) Jennie McGraw Fiske c) Jeremiah Beebe d) Robert Treman 1878

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 60 11/3/20 4:00 PM 60. George Joblove ’76, MS ’79, 65. What major university, is a CGI pioneer who co- founded in 1885, had founded the computer graphics a Cornellian as its first department at George Lucas’s president—and an original Industrial Light & Magic. faculty composed largely Which of these movies didn’t of CU alumni and former he work on? professors? a) Young Sherlock Holmes a) Northwestern b) The Abyss b) Purdue c) Terminator 2: Judgment Day c) UCLA d) Death Becomes Her d) Stanford

67. Akwe:kon—Cornell’s Native 70. What Ivy team did the Big American program house, Red play in the infamous the first of its kind on a U.S. “Fifth Down” football game campus—means “all of us” in of 1940? what language? a) Dartmouth a) Cayuga b) Harvard b) Onondaga c) Penn c) Tuscarora d) Brown d) Mohawk

68. With what overseas institution does Cornell Tech have an academic 61. When Martha Van 66. What Big Red hockey star partnership? Rensselaer—future co-founder went on to serve in the a) École Polytechnique, of the College of Home Canadian Parliament? France Economics—was elected to a) Joe Nieuwendyk ’88 b) Technion– Institute of the traditionally male position b) Ken Dryden ’69 Technology, Israel of school commissioner of c) Brian McCutcheon ’71 c) Tsinghua University, C hina 71. Who holds the record for New York’s Cattaraugus d) Doug Dadswell ’88 d) Imperial College London, U K longest-serving Cornell County, what was she president? reportedly asked not to do? 69. The Mars rover Opportunity, a) Frank H.T. Rhodes a) Get married whose scientific mission b) Andrew Dickson White b) Have children was led by physical sciences c) c) Teach classes professor Steve Squyres ’78, d) d) Contradict male colleagues PhD ’81, was built to function for ninety days. How long did 72. Which of these movies did not 62. What classic film was based it actually last? include a character that went on an unproduced play by a) Eighteen months to Cornell? Murray Burnett ’31? b) Five years a) Any Given Sunday a) Gaslight c) Ten years b) Die Hard b) Notorious d) Fifteen years c) Dirty Dancing c) Casablanca d) Up in the Air d) White Heat

63. Two Big Red alumni have served as head of state of what Asian nation? a) South Korea b) c) Japan d) Singapore

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ND20_trivia_PROOF_4_JBOKrr2.indd 61 11/3/20 4:00 PM 73. Can you recognize these prominent alumni from their Cornellian senior portraits?

A) Gary Bettman ’74 NHL commissioner

B) Ken Blanchard ’61, PhD ’67 management guru

C) Harold Bloom ’51 academic and cultural critic

D) Jane Brody ’62 medical journalist Janet Reno ’60 Ken Dryden ’69 Leah Ward Sears ’76 Jeff Lehman ’77 E) Joyce Bauer Brothers ’47 psychologist and TV personality

F) S.E. Cupp ’00 CNN host

G) Ken Dryden ’69 hockey star

H) Reggie Fils-Aimé ’83 former president of Nintendo of America Svante Myrick ’09 Kate Snow ’91 Harold Bloom ’51 Michelle Rhee ’92 I) Jeff Lehman ’77 former CU president

J) Svante Myrick ’09 Ithaca mayor

K) Drew Nieporent ’77 restaurateur

L) Bill Nye ’77 science popularizer

M) Adepero Oduye ’99 film actress Joyce Bauer Brothers ’47 Ratan Tata, BArch 1962 Adepero Oduye ’99 Reggie Fils-Aimé ’83

N) Janet Reno ’60 former Attorney General

O) Michelle Rhee ’92 former chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools

P) Leah Ward Sears ’76 Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Kate Snow ’91 Q) S.E. Cupp ’00 Sanford Weill ’55 Jane Brody ’62 NBC news anchor Gary Bettman ’74

R) Ratan Tata, BArch 1962 chairman emeritus of ’s Tata Group

S) Sanford Weill ’55 Weill Cornell Medicine “foremost benefactor”

T) Lauren Weisberger ’99 author of bestseller The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger ’99 Drew Nieporent ’77 Ken Blanchard ’61, Bill Nye ’77 PhD ’67 PHOTOS: CORNELLIAN

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