Q 01/05

Which Pi Kappa Alpha member first served his chicken dishes to travelers at a Kentucky service station?

A) Dave Thomas

B) Harland Sanders

C) Richard McDonald

D) Ray Kroc

Answer · why

B) Harland Sanders

Harland Sanders, the white-suited Colonel of Kentucky Fried Chicken, is listed with the fraternity's University of Florida chapter. He took over the S...

Q 02/05

Pi Kappa Alpha's preamble opens by seeking to establish what "on a firmer and more lasting basis"?

A) Scholarship

B) Loyalty

C) Friendship

D) Brotherhood

Answer · why

C) Friendship

Friendship comes first in the preamble, ahead of brotherly love and mutual benefit. Two of the founders drafted the single sentence as a statement of ...

Q 03/05

Pi Kappa Alpha's 1988 Memorial Headquarters was inspired by which US president's Virginia home?

A) Monticello

B) Mount Vernon

C) Montpelier

D) Sherwood Forest

Answer · why

A) Monticello

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's hilltop house, was the model for the building. Jefferson also designed the University of Virginia rooms where the frate...

Q 04/05

Which writer roomed in 1826 on the University of Virginia row where Pi Kappa Alpha was later founded?

A) Walt Whitman

B) Mark Twain

C) Nathaniel Hawthorne

D) Edgar Allan Poe

Answer · why

D) Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe lived at No. 13 on the row and left after a year for lack of money. Pi Kappa Alpha keeps No. 47, its birthplace, and Woodrow Wilson la...

Q 05/05

Pi Kappa Alpha member Bob Bowman, a Florida State graduate, coached which swimmer to 23 Olympic titles?

A) Ryan Lochte

B) Michael Phelps

C) Mark Spitz

D) Caeleb Dressel

Answer · why

B) Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps is the swimmer Bowman is best known for coaching. Bowman has also guided the champions Léon Marchand and Summer McIntosh.