Q 01/05

Nu Phi, the 1904 campus party that became Pi Kappa Phi, assigned one member to do what to likely rival voters?

A) Bribe them

B) Kidnap them

C) Tail them home

D) Report them

Answer · why

B) Kidnap them

Kidnap them was the election-day plan for anyone likely to back the other ticket. Nu Phi still lost, because several of its own men quietly voted for ...

Q 02/05

Pi Kappa Phi member Gaylord Nelson, a governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin, founded which annual observance in 1970?

A) Earth Day

B) Arbor Day

C) Flag Day

D) World Oceans Day

Answer · why

A) Earth Day

Earth Day began as a teach-in on environmental issues on April 22, 1970, and it launched a new wave of environmental activism across the United States...

Q 03/05

Pi Kappa Phi member Adrian Cronauer's years as an Armed Forces Radio disc jockey inspired which 1987 film?

A) Full Metal Jacket

B) Hamburger Hill

C) Good Morning, Vietnam

D) Born on the Fourth of July

Answer · why

C) Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam starred Robin Williams as Cronauer, an Air Force sergeant who had chosen broadcasting over flight training when he enlisted in t...

Q 04/05

Which Hall of Fame manager, who ran the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996, was also a Pi Kappa Phi member?

A) Walter Alston

B) Sparky Anderson

C) Joe Torre

D) Tommy Lasorda

Answer · why

D) Tommy Lasorda

Tommy Lasorda won two World Series with the Dodgers and reached Cooperstown in 1997. Pi Kappa Phi lists him as a member-at-large, not with any campus ...

Q 05/05

Pi Kappa Phi brother William Kouwenhoven, a Johns Hopkins engineer, is credited with inventing which lifesaving device?

A) The heart defibrillator

B) The artificial pacemaker

C) The iron lung

D) The heart-lung machine

Answer · why

A) The heart defibrillator

The heart defibrillator made Kouwenhoven's name, but he also helped develop closed-chest cardiac massage, which earned him the title Father of Cardiop...