Fraternities and Sororities
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50 free Fraternities and Sororities trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Greek life is one of the oldest and strangest traditions on American campuses. What began in the eighteenth century with a handful of secret student societies grew into hundreds of national fraternities and sororities, each with its own letters, badge, colors, rituals and stories about how it all started. Along the way they produced presidents, astronauts, Supreme Court justices and pop stars, and gave Hollywood one of its favorite settings. This quiz covers the whole picture. There are questions on the first fraternities and the first sororities, on how recruitment works and where its vocabulary comes from, on badges, symbols and philanthropies, and on the historically Black fraternities and sororities and their traditions. Famous sorority sisters and fraternity brothers turn up throughout, and a run of questions looks at Greek life on screen, from the classic campus comedies to more recent series. It is written for members and alumni who want to test what they remember from new-member education, for chapters looking for social Greek trivia for a recruitment event, sisterhood night or Greek Week, and for anyone curious about what goes on behind the letters. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing more than when you started.
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Q 01Animal House drew on co-writer Chris Miller's fraternity days on which Ivy League campus?
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is where Miller joined Alpha Delta, and many of the film's characters and their nicknames were based on his fraternity brothers there.
Q 02In the 2001 film Legally Blonde, Elle Woods is a proud member of which fictional sorority?
Delta Nu
Delta Nu is Elle's house at a Los Angeles university, and a former member of the same sorority turns out to be the defendant in the murder case she works on at Harvard.
Q 03Which Greek-letter honor society was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776?
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa began as a secret society and set the precedent for naming American college societies after the initials of a Greek motto.
Q 04As a student, Kamala Harris joined which sorority, whose colors are salmon pink and apple green?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha held its first Ivy Day in 1909 by planting ivy on campus, and later named its magazine the Ivy Leaf.
Q 05Before a professor coined the word sorority in 1882, Greek-letter groups for female students were called what?
Women's fraternities
Women's fraternities is still the official label of several groups; Latin professor Frank Smalley proposed the new word because fraternity sounded wrong to him for a group of ladies.
Q 06The historically Black fraternities and sororities of the National Pan-Hellenic Council share which nickname?
The Divine Nine
The Divine Nine got the name from author Lawrence Ross, who coined the phrase as the title of his history of the nine organizations.
Q 07Fraternity rush is said to be named for members hurrying to greet freshmen arriving by what transport?
Trains
Trains full of incoming freshmen were met at the station by rival fraternities, Baird's Manual says, and each recruit won was pinned with a lapel badge to mark him as taken.
Q 08Which 1984 comedy set at Adams College inspired a real fraternity named Lambda Lambda Lambda?
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds gave its heroes the Tri-Lambs, and in 2006 students at the University of Connecticut founded a co-ed fraternity under the same letters.
Q 09Which fraternity, whose members included Martin Luther King Jr., led the drive to build his memorial in Washington?
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha conceived and funded the memorial beside the National Mall; the fraternity grew out of a Cornell study club in 1906 and uses the Great Sphinx as its symbol.
Q 10The TikTok craze known as RushTok began in 2021 with videos of sorority recruitment on which Southern campus?
University of Alabama
University of Alabama recruits posted their outfits of the day, the hashtag drew billions of views, and a film crew followed four students for a 2023 documentary.
Q 11What three-letter word names the formal invitation to join a fraternity or sorority after recruitment?
A bid
A bid only counts once it is accepted; the recruit then starts a probationary new-member period that ends with initiation.
Q 12What term describes a recruit whose parent or sibling already belongs to the fraternity or sorority being rushed?
A legacy
A legacy traditionally meant the child or sibling of a member, though some organizations have widened the definition to other relatives.
Q 13What name was traditionally given to the final, harshest stretch of hazing faced by fraternity pledges?
Hell Week
Hell Week has been recast on some campuses as Help Week, with the days of torment replaced by community service.
Q 21Ronald Reagan joined which fraternity at Eureka College, where he served as president of the local chapter?
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon started in 1899 as the Knights of Classic Lore, a group that read classic literature together at its weekly meetings.
Q 22The Kappa Alpha Society, the oldest surviving social fraternity, was founded in 1825 on which New York campus?
Union College
Union College added Sigma Phi and Delta Phi two years later, completing the Union Triad, the trio that set the pattern for social fraternities across North America.
Q 23Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta, two thirds of a famous fraternity triad, were both founded on which Ohio campus?
Miami University
Q 14Which percussive dance of stomps, claps and chants is a showpiece of historically Black fraternities and sororities?
Stepping
Stepping uses the whole body as an instrument, and each group guards its signature moves, such as Kappa Alpha Psi's routines with canes.
Q 15In which 2003 comedy do characters played by Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn start their own fraternity?
Old School
Old School has the trio exploit a university loophole to open a fraternity to anyone, student or not, which is how an elderly war veteran called Blue ends up a brother.
Q 16Which 2014 comedy pits new parents played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne against a fraternity led by Zac Efron?
Neighbors
Neighbors was released in some countries as Bad Neighbours, and its 2016 sequel carried the subtitle Sorority Rising.
Q 17In Pixar's Monsters University, Mike enters the Scare Games with which small fraternity of misfits?
Oozma Kappa
Oozma Kappa takes Mike in after the top house on campus, Roar Omega Roar, turns him down for not looking scary enough.
Q 18Which American Idol winner is an alumna of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma?
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood belongs to the sorority's Alpha Iota chapter and graduated magna cum laude in 2006, the year after she won the show.
Q 19Which director drew on his Morehouse years for a 1988 musical about fraternity pledges at a Black college?
Spike Lee
Spike Lee wrote, directed and starred in School Daze, which follows the Gammites, a line of recruits hazed by their Big Brothers during homecoming week.
Q 20Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta sorority, bound by their constitutions, both began on which Black campus?
Howard University
Howard University also hosted the 1930 meeting that made the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the umbrella body for Black Greek-letter groups, a permanent organization.
Miami University in Oxford saw the pair founded in 1839 and 1848, and Delta Zeta sorority and Phi Kappa Tau fraternity followed there in the early 1900s.
Q 24Which sorority, founded at DePauw University in 1870, was the first Greek-letter society established for women?
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Alpha Theta grew from Bettie Locke's wish for a Greek-letter group of her own, encouraged by her father, a professor and Beta Theta Pi member; its badge is shaped like a kite.
Q 25Which sorority, founded at Monmouth College in Illinois in 1867, wears a golden arrow as its badge?
Pi Beta Phi
Pi Beta Phi started life as I.C. Sorosis, and in 1912 it opened a settlement school in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, as its first philanthropy.
Q 26Which nautical object, chosen as a symbol of hope, is the emblem of Delta Gamma sorority?
An anchor
An anchor replaced the sorority's first badge, a plain letter H for Hope, in 1877, and its quarterly magazine has been called the Anchora since 1884.
Q 27Kappa Kappa Gamma members wear a small golden version of which everyday object as their badge?
A key
A key was how the founders announced themselves: in October 1870 they walked into the Monmouth College chapel with the golden badges pinned in their hair.
Q 28Which sorority, founded at the University of Arkansas in 1895, has initiated more members than any other?
Chi Omega
Chi Omega has initiated more than 400,000 women, and since 2002 its chapters have raised money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Q 29Which sorority began in 1851 as the Adelphean Society at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia?
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi is the oldest secret society for women, yet it took Greek letters only in 1905 and had to alter them in 1913 because a men's fraternity already used Alpha Delta Phi.
Q 30Which umbrella body, founded in 1902, represents 26 sororities across the United States and Canada?
National Panhellenic Conference
The National Panhellenic Conference grew out of a 1902 meeting in Chicago, where Alpha Phi invited eight other groups to agree on common standards for sororities.