Q 01/05

Which fashion icon, who signed a modeling contract at age 97, joined Phi Sigma Sigma at the University of Wisconsin?

A) Diana Vreeland

B) Betsey Johnson

C) Iris Apfel

D) Gloria Vanderbilt

Answer · why

C) Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel served as vice president of her chapter, decades before a 2005 Metropolitan Museum show of her wardrobe made her a style star in her eighti...

Q 02/05

Which actress, who played the medium Tangina in Poltergeist, joined Phi Sigma Sigma at the University of Pittsburgh?

A) Zelda Rubinstein

B) JoBeth Williams

C) Beatrice Straight

D) Linda Hunt

Answer · why

A) Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda Rubinstein earned a bacteriology degree there and worked as a blood-bank lab technician until 1978, when she decided to try acting.

Q 03/05

Founded by ten New York students in 1913, Phi Sigma Sigma was the first collegiate sorority to do what?

A) Charter chapters in Canada

B) Admit women of all faiths

C) Own a chapter house

D) Initiate graduate students

Answer · why

B) Admit women of all faiths

Its founders chose to admit women of all faiths at a time when that was not the norm, which made Phi Sigma Sigma the first nonsectarian sorority.

Q 04/05

Phi Sigma Sigma's official hymn shares its name, Liebestraum, with a piano nocturne published in 1850 by which composer?

A) Frédéric Chopin

B) Robert Schumann

C) Johannes Brahms

D) Franz Liszt

Answer · why

D) Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt first conceived his three Liebesträume as songs set to German poems, and the third became by far the most familiar.

Q 05/05

Phi Sigma Sigma's Nancy Pimental, a chemical engineering graduate, wrote for which animated series from 1998 to 2001?

A) South Park

B) Futurama

C) Family Guy

D) Daria

Answer · why

A) South Park

South Park credits her on 25 episodes; she also replaced Jimmy Kimmel as co-host of the game show Win Ben Stein's Money.