Q 01/05

Which Netflix hit was created by twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, 2007 graduates of Chapman University's film school?

A) Black Mirror

B) The Witcher

C) Stranger Things

D) The Umbrella Academy

Answer · why

C) Stranger Things

Stranger Things made the Duffer brothers famous years after the film schools at NYU and USC turned them down, which is how two twins from North Caroli...

Q 02/05

The college that became Chapman University timed its 1861 opening to the hour of which president's inauguration?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) James Buchanan

C) Andrew Johnson

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer · why

A) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln took the oath on March 4, 1861, and the founders had put off opening for months to share the date, a statement of their belief in equa...

Q 03/05

Which civil rights leader spoke at Chapman College's Memorial Hall in December 1961?

A) Thurgood Marshall

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

C) Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

D) A. Philip Randolph

Answer · why

B) Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. came as an Artist Lecture Series speaker on December 10, 1961, and talked about nonviolence, the Freedom Riders and school dese...

Q 04/05

A slab of which landmark, shipped to Orange in 1997, stands in a pond in Chapman University's Liberty Plaza?

A) London Bridge

B) The Great Wall of China

C) Hadrian's Wall

D) The Berlin Wall

Answer · why

D) The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall fragment was one of the last pieces still to be had, and it reached campus after four weeks by crane, ship, truck and train with its C...

Q 05/05

Chapman University's film studios are named for a daughter of the couple who founded which California theme park?

A) Knott's Berry Farm

B) Disneyland Park

C) Six Flags Magic Mountain

D) SeaWorld San Diego

Answer · why

A) Knott's Berry Farm

Knott's Berry Farm founders Walter and Cordelia Knott were her parents, and Marion Knott gave so generously to Chapman's film department that the scho...