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What is Cornell’s mascot?
The Big Red Bear
2015
When someone is choking, this man, a Cornell
graduate, could show you how to save his or her
life.
Henry Heimlich
What are Cornell’s colors?
Cornell's colors are carnelian and white
Who on the following list has not served as an
A.W. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell?
A) Toni Morrison B) Martha Stewart
C) John Cleese D) Jane Goodall
B) Martha Stewart
Which building on campus resembles a
sewing machine?
This Cornell graduate wrote about a pig and a
spider.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
E.B. White
What notable noodle is Cornell’s “science
guy?”
What former Cornell student eventually became
the headline member of this rock band.
Bill Nye
Huey Lewis and the News
When did the Libe Café open?
A) 2001 B) 1991
C) 1961 D)1981
What Pulitzer Prize winning Cornell graduate
wrote “Beloved?”
Toni Morrison
A) 2001
Statues of what two men face each other
across Cornell’s Arts Quad?
What originally occupied the building that is
now The Nines restaurant in Collegetown?
Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.
The #9 Fire Station
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Cornell graduate.
Christopher Reeves
2015
When was Inauguration Day of Cornell
University?
A) October 7, 1868 B) October 7, 1865
C) October 7, 1800
D) October 7, 1891
A) October 7, 1868
Who wrote, “I would found an institution
where any person can find instruction in any
study?”
In what building was the Museum of Natural
History at Cornell?
A) Kennedy Hall B) Wegmas
C) McGraw Hall
D) Statler Hall
Ezra Cornell
C) McGraw Hall
Where is the Cornell Laboratory of
Ornithology?
A) Adirondacks B) Florida
C) Varna D) Sapsucker Woods
How large was the Founder’s Fund (the gift of
Ezra Cornell)
A) $500,000
B) $1,000,000
C) $200,000 D) $10,100
D) Sapsucker Woods
A) $500,000
What are the names of the Mars rovers?
When were the chimes first played in McGraw
Tower, adjacent to Uris Library?
A) 1865 B) 1778
C) 1891 D) 1975
Spirit and Opportunity
C) 1891
When was the Willard Straight Hall
Takeover?
A) 1974 B) 1983
C) 1969 D) 1992
C) 1969
What is the tallest building on the Cornell
campus?
Bradfield Hall
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Name one U.S. state besides New York in
which there is an Ithaca
What was the first building used by Cornell
University?
Nebraska or/and Michigan
Cascadilla Hall
Why did clergymen and the president of
Harvard condemn Cornell University at its
founding in 1865?
Who was the only inaugurated President of
Cornell who was also a Cornell graduate?
A) Because it was non-sectarian
B) Because it admitted women
C) Because it included a College of
Agriculture
D) Because it wasn’t in Massachusetts
A) Andrew Dickson White B) Hunter Rawlings
C) Jeffrey Lehman D) James Perkins
C) Jeffrey Lehman
A) Because it was non-sectarian
According to the story, why did the first
woman student at Cornell drop out?
A) The walk up East hill will too hard in winter
B) She was accepted to Radcliffe
C) She was bored with the course offerings
D) She did not like the food in the dining
halls
Who was the first University Librarian?
A) Andrew Dickson White
B) Ezra Cornell
C) Daniel Willard Fiske
D) Burt Green Wilder
C) Daniel Willard Fiske
A) The walk up East Hill was too hard in
winter
Did Kurt Vonnegut graduate from Cornell?
No, he attended but dropped out during World
War II
What is the Andrew Dickson White House home
of now?
The Society for the Humanities.
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What former U.S. Attorney General graduated
from Cornell with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1960?
Which side of Ithaca does not have a hill named
for it?
Janet Reno
North
What local Ithaca bar/restaurant was named
for a murderer whose brain was one of the
largest ever recorded?
What was the first building constructed with
classrooms for Cornell University?
Morrill Hall
Rulloff's
Which Supreme Court justice graduated from
Cornell?
What Ithaca restaurant gave its name to a
nationally famous cookbook?
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Moosewood
What 1862 act passed by Congress granted
land for colleges and universities teaching
agriculture and engineering?
What building on campus is known as "Old
Rusty"?
Uris Hall
Morrill Land Grant
Which Persian Gulf nation is home to a
branch of Cornell's Weill Medical College?
Who was Anabel Taylor's husband?
Myron Taylor
Qatar
What Tompkins County waterfall is higher
than Niagara Falls?
Who preceded Frank Rhodes as president of
Cornell?
Taughannock Falls
Dale Corson
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What Cornell Nobel Prize winner in physics
played a significant part in the development
of the atomic bomb?
2015
What Cornell football player went on to star in
TV’s “Hill Street Blues”?
Ed Marinaro
Hans Bethe
The Arts Quad statue of Ezra Cornell shows
him leaning on what piece of equipment?
What Cornell hockey goalie went on to play on a
Stanley Cup winning team, for one of hockey’s
greatest dynasties?
Telegraph
Ken Dryden of the Montreal Canadiens
This Cornell graduate was part of the famous
trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
What famous Peter, Paul and Mary song did
Peter Yarrow write while living in Ithaca?
Peter Yarrow
Puff the Magic Dragon
What was the first building constructed as a
dormitory at Cornell?
True or False: The majority of Ivy League
Schools are found in New England.
Sage Hall
False!
Of the 8 Ivy League Schools only one half are in
New England; Brown in Rhode Island, Dartmouth
in New Hampshire, Harvard in Massachusetts and
Yale in Connecticut. The remaining Ivies are
Princeton, in New Jersey, Columbia and Cornell in
New York and the University of Pennsylvania.
Name the Jacques Lipchitz metal sculpture
located between Olin and Uris libraries.
Who was the first woman professor at Cornell?
Anna Comstock (summer session)
Song of the Vowels
Martha Van Rensselaer & Flora Rose (regular
appointment)
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What Cornell Chaplain appeared at a Barton
Hall rally while being pursued by the FBI?
Cornell graduated its first female student in what
year?
Dan Berrigan
1873
Cornell graduated its first African American
student in what year?
What year was the Graduate School developed?
1909
1897
Cornell granted the first doctorates in the
United States in what two subjects?
Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
In 1966, as part of the Dragon Day festivities,
students released a pig into the Ivy Room -which resulted in a food fight of immense
proportions and numerous complaints to the
Department of Public Safety. What color was the
pig?
Green
What animal are Cornellians traditionally
known to throw before a certain rival hockey
game?
What is Cornell’s oldest musical tradition?
The Cornell Chimes
Fish
How much University land do the Cornell
Plantations cover?
What are the three major areas of the Cornell
Plantations?
3,000 acres
The Arboretum, Botanical Garden, and Natural
Areas
The Cornell University Press was the first
university press in the United States, when
was it established?
What world-renowned architect designed the
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (other
museum buildings designed by this person
include the East Building of the National Gallery
of Art in Washington DC, the West Wing of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, and the
Pyramids at the Louvre in Paris, France)?
1869
I.M. Pei
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Where is The Arecibo Observatory, operated
by Cornell, located?
2015
What department is housed in Snee Hall?
Geological Sciences
Puerto Rico
Who created the sculpture that is standing
between Statler and Uris Halls?
What is the name of the lounge in the
Schoellkopf House?
Jason Seeley
The Ed Marinaro Lounge
What’s the name of the “sizzling” athletic
facility near the parking garage?
What happened to Stone Hall?
It was torn down
Bacon Cage
How many steps are there from the
Suspension Bridge up to University Avenue?
Why did A. D. White recruit Professor Caldwell
for the Cornell faculty?
88
Caldwell owned a microscope at a time when the
University owned none
What departments were originally housed in
Sage Hall because they seemed fitting
disciplines for young women?
How many steps does A. D. White take to meet
Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad?
31
Botany and Horticulture
How do you get in touch with Uncle Ezra?
By using CUINFO
Which United States President hit a home run on
Hoy Field (Cornell’s baseball field), and for what
school did he play?
President George Bush, playing for Yale
What building on campus was named for the
father of an Academy Award winning actress?
Willard Straight Hall (Beatrice Straight won an
Academy Award for the movie Network in
1977)
In 2010, the men's basketball team advanced to
the Sweet Sixteen, becoming the first Ivy League
team to advance that far since Penn's Final Four
appearance in 1979. What team/school did they
defeat to advance on?
Temple University, The Owels
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Cornell has the only stand-alone facility
dedicated to this sport in the country.
In what movie did Barbara Streisand play a
character based on a Cornellian?
Wrestling
The Way We Were
What winter campus scenes from a John
Cusack movie were filmed at Cornell?
When and where did the first bells toll over an
American university’s campus?
The Sure Thing
Cornell University at its inauguration on
October 7, 1868
Who was “Davy?”
Who owns Bailey Hall?
Davis Fletcher Hoy ’91, (that’s 1891) the
University Registrar from 1895 to 1930. He was
the one who sent “bust notices” to students
who had failed their finals and as a result
would have to take a semester’s leave. He is
referred to in the Cornell Fight Song Give My
Regards to Davy.
New York State
What college, 45 minutes south of Ithaca,
predates Cornell’s dedication to educating
women?
The Lynah Faithful throw fish at this hockey
team every year?
The Harvard Crimson
Elmira College, which opened in 1855
What is the name of the a cappella group that
preceded the Hangovers as the subset of the
Cornell University Glee Club?
This is the official name of Cornell’s mascot, the
Big Red Bear.
Touchdown
The Sherwoods
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What is the name of the student newspaper?
2015
What is the popular term for the last day of
classes?
The Cornell Daily Sun
Slope Day
Legend has it that if you refuse a kiss on this
bridge, it will topple into the gorge below.
A popular slang term for freshman at the
beginning of the 20th century.
The Suspension Bridge
Piker
What vegetable was found on top of McGraw
Tower in 1997?
What western University was founded when a
Cornell alum recruited over half of Cornell’s
faculty to California?
A giant pumpkin
Stanford
What are the names of the two creeks which
form Cornell’s gorges?
The College of Engineering has placed this on
their quad, despite Ithaca’s weather.
Fall Creek and Cascadilla
A sundial
What building on campus is LEED Platinum
certified?
How many Nobel laureates are affiliated with
Cornell as faculty members or alumni?
The Human Ecology Building
43
Cornell is comprised of how many colleges
and schools?
What year was the first recorded Slope Day?
1901
14
Where will The Cornell Tech Campus open its
doors in 2017?
How many steps does it take to get to the top of
McGrawTower?
Roosevelt Island, New York City
161
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How many colleges and schools are
undergraduate, graduate and professional?
Seven undergraduate units
Four graduate and professional units in Ithaca
Two medical graduate and professional units in
New York City, and one in Doha, Qatar. The
Cornell Tech campus in New York City is the
latest addition.
True or False: Cornell was the first U.S.
university to offer a major in American
studies.
2015
True or False: Cornell established the first fouryear schools of hotel administration and
industrial and labor relations
True
True or False: Cornell awarded the world's first
degree in journalism, the nation's first degree in
veterinary medicine, and the first doctorates in
electrical and industrial engineering.
True
True
David Skorton became the
President of
Cornell University on July 1, 2006
The School of Hotel Administration celebrated
its
birthday in 2012.
12th
90th
Elizabeth Garrett assumed the university
presidency on July 1, 2015. What was her
previous position and at what university?
Finish the last two lines of Give My Regards to
Davy:
Provost and Senior Vice President for academic
affairs at the University of Southern California
Give my regards to Davy, -- Remember me to Tee Fee
Crane. -- Tell all the pikers on the Hill --That I'll be back
again. -- Tell them just how I busted -- Lapping up the
high highball.
…..
…..
We'll all have drinks at Theodore Zinck's
When I get back next fall!