Q 01/05

Animal House drew on co-writer Chris Miller's fraternity days on which Ivy League campus?

A) Cornell University

B) Dartmouth College

C) Brown University

D) Princeton University

Answer · why

B) 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 ther...

Q 02/05

In the 2001 film Legally Blonde, Elle Woods is a proud member of which fictional sorority?

A) Zeta Beta Zeta

B) Pi Delta Pi

C) Delta Nu

D) Phi Iota Mu

Answer · why

C) 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 wo...

Q 03/05

Which Greek-letter honor society was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776?

A) Tau Beta Pi

B) Phi Kappa Phi

C) Omicron Delta Kappa

D) Phi Beta Kappa

Answer · why

D) 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 04/05

As a student, Kamala Harris joined which sorority, whose colors are salmon pink and apple green?

A) Alpha Kappa Alpha

B) Zeta Phi Beta

C) Sigma Gamma Rho

D) Lambda Theta Alpha

Answer · why

A) 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 05/05

Before a professor coined the word sorority in 1882, Greek-letter groups for female students were called what?

A) Women's fraternities

B) Collegiate sisterhoods

C) Ladies' Greek circles

D) Sister societies

Answer · why

A) 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 wro...