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40 free Alpha Gamma Delta trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Alpha Gamma Delta asks every member to learn its Purpose, a single long sentence of resolves that sisters still recite a century after it was adopted. Knowing who wrote it, how it opens and what each clause asks for is the heart of new member education, and it is the first thing most people look up about the fraternity. This quiz walks through the Purpose clause by clause, then widens out to the founding, the founders, the official symbols, the philanthropy and the traditions that mark an Alpha Gam year. A handful of questions cover well-known alumnae from politics, television, film and science. It is written for new members preparing for a pledge test, for sisters who want to see how much has stuck since initiation, and for anyone curious about how a women's fraternity describes what it stands for.
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Q 01Which Alpha Gamma Delta founder, later Michigan's first licensed woman architect, wrote its Purpose?
Emily Helen Butterfield
Emily Helen Butterfield wrote the Purpose, which the 1921 Convention adopted. She also designed two chapter houses and edited the fraternity's magazine for seven years.
Q 02Alpha Gamma Delta styles itself a fraternity, not a sorority, a word built on 'soror' from which language?
Latin
Latin is where soror, meaning sister, comes from. Alpha Gamma Delta is officially a women's fraternity, as are many other women's Greek-letter groups.
Q 03Which animal is the official mascot of Alpha Gamma Delta?
Squirrel
Squirrel was the choice, under the name Skiouros, because the nimble animal, at home in autumn woods, stood for a spirit of energetic alertness and progress.
Q 04Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose opens by seeking understanding so that what may be vouchsafed?
Wisdom
Wisdom is the first aim the Purpose names. Later clauses turn to health, friendship, service and high ideals before closing on the fraternity's good name.
Q 05Which Alpha Gamma Delta member from Auburn became Alabama's second female governor in 2017?
Kay Ivey
Kay Ivey took office when Robert Bentley resigned, then won full terms in 2018 and 2022. At Auburn she was president of her first-year pledge class.
Q 06Alpha Gamma Delta's Karen McCullah co-wrote which Reese Witherspoon comedy about a sorority president?
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde was adapted in 2001 from Amanda Brown's novel by McCullah and her writing partner Kirsten Smith, the duo behind 10 Things I Hate About You.
Q 07Alpha Gamma Delta is the youngest of a 'Triad' of sororities founded at which New York university?
Syracuse
Syracuse produced all three: Alpha Phi in 1872, Gamma Phi Beta in 1874 and Alpha Gamma Delta in 1904, which was founded at a professor's home.
Q 08Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose urges wide acquaintance but says to cherish friendships with whom?
A chosen few
A chosen few is the Purpose's phrase, and it then asks each woman to study the perfecting of those bonds rather than simply collect more of them.
Q 09Alpha Gamma Delta's Amber Mariano won the million-dollar prize on an all-star season of which show?
Survivor
Survivor crowned her in its 2004 All-Stars season, and she got engaged to fellow castaway Rob Mariano during the live finale.
Q 10Alpha Gamma Delta's fight against hunger partners with Feeding America and which other nonprofit?
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels and Feeding America give chapters local service projects, while the fraternity's Foundation funds grants to groups feeding their own communities.
Q 11Which gem, set into the Alpha of the member badge, is the official jewel of Alpha Gamma Delta?
Pearl
Pearl is the jewel, and the badge shows it off: its monogram of three Greek letters outlines one of them in the gems, with diamonds sometimes added to the other two.
Q 12Alpha Gamma Delta's colors, also enameled on its new member pin, are red, buff and which other?
Green
Green rounds out the trio. In the official flowers it comes from a spray of asparagus fern set beside the red and buff blooms.
Q 13Which red and buff bloom, paired with asparagus fern, is the official flower of Alpha Gamma Delta?
Rose
Rose is the flower, and it lends its name to the Feast of Roses, a convention tradition first held in 1915.
Q 21Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose calls sincerity essential and which other quality invaluable?
Kindness
Kindness is the quality the Purpose calls invaluable, in the same clause that holds truth inviolable.
Q 22The closing line of Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose hopes others will love the fraternity for her what?
Womanhood
Womanhood is the last word of the Purpose, which first hopes people will esteem the fraternity for her attainments and revere her for her purposes.
Q 23Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose asks members to covet what in environment, manner, word and thought?
Beauty
Beauty is what the Purpose says to covet, and its very next clause asks members to possess high ideals and to attain somewhat unto them.
Q 14Alpha Gamma Delta moved its headquarters from Chatham, New Jersey, to which Midwestern city in 1965?
Indianapolis
Indianapolis became the third home of the fraternity's administrative offices. In 2011 they moved across the city to North Meridian Street.
Q 15Which Alpha Gamma Delta founder, one of only two juniors among them, was elected first president?
Jennie Titus
Jennie Titus took the chair at the founding meeting, aged 21, and wore the first badge. She later served as Grand President of the whole fraternity.
Q 16Which professor, at whose home Alpha Gamma Delta was founded, urged students to form fraternities?
Wellesley Coddington
Wellesley Coddington believed his campus needed more women's fraternities, and that conviction is what inspired the first president to help found one.
Q 17Which umbrella body for women's sororities, founded in 1902, did Alpha Gamma Delta join in 1909?
National Panhellenic Conference
National Panhellenic Conference membership came just five years after the founding. Alpha Delta Pi and Zeta Tau Alpha were admitted the same year.
Q 18Alpha Gamma Delta went international in 1919 by installing Tau Chapter at which Canadian university?
Toronto
Toronto made the fraternity international, and that year's convention matched the moment by adopting its first international philanthropy project.
Q 19Alpha Gamma Delta voted in 1919 to create what for underprivileged children, its first philanthropy?
A summer camp
A summer camp opened the next year beside Wolf Lake in Jackson, and members staffed it and a later Canadian site for more than 25 years.
Q 20From 1979, Alpha Gamma Delta's philanthropy backed a juvenile foundation fighting which disease?
Diabetes
Diabetes stayed the fraternity's cause for nearly four decades. The partnership with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation was announced at the Diamond Anniversary Convention.
Q 24Alpha Gamma Delta's Purpose asks a member to honor her home, her country and which third thing?
Her religious faith
Her religious faith completes the trio, in a clause that follows the call to serve the community where a member is placed.
Q 25Begun in 1936, Alpha Gamma Delta's International Reunion Day falls near which month's third Saturday?
April
April was picked because the old Founders' Day, May 30, kept landing during final exams or after campuses had already closed.
Q 26Which sorority, founded at Emporia State in 1921, merged into Alpha Gamma Delta at its 1959 convention?
Theta Sigma Upsilon
Theta Sigma Upsilon brought 13 of its chapters across when the two groups merged at French Lick, Indiana.
Q 27Which two Greek letters name the Alpha Gamma Delta honors adopted at its 1919 convention?
Epsilon Pi
Epsilon Pi honors were adopted at the 1919 Convention, and two of the founders are remembered as wearers of the Circle of Epsilon Pi.
Q 28When an Alpha Gamma Delta member dies, the fraternity says she has entered what?
Chapter Grand
Chapter Grand is the fraternity's term for sisters who have died, and families are asked what should become of a late member's badge.
Q 29Which Alberta resort town hosted Alpha Gamma Delta's first convention outside the United States in 1947?
Banff
Banff welcomed the 1947 meeting, 28 years after a Canadian chapter first made the fraternity international.
Q 30Alpha Gamma Delta has canceled conventions for wars and a pandemic; what caused the 1933 cancellation?
The Great Depression
The Great Depression stopped the 1933 gathering. War conditions canceled three others, the Korean conflict a fourth and the 2020 pandemic a sixth.