Q 01/05

Under what name was Princeton founded in 1746?

A) College of New Jersey

B) Nassau College

C) King's College

D) Queen's College

Answer · why

A) College of New Jersey

College of New Jersey was the legal name for generations; the school took its town's name only when it was raised to a university in the 1890s.

Q 02/05

In which New Jersey town did Princeton hold its first classes in 1747, in Jonathan Dickinson's parsonage?

A) Newark

B) Trenton

C) Elizabeth

D) New Brunswick

Answer · why

C) Elizabeth

Elizabeth, then called Elizabethtown, was home for only a few months: Dickinson died that October and the students moved to Aaron Burr's parsonage in ...

Q 03/05

When Princeton was founded in 1746, no college stood between New Haven and which Virginia town?

A) Richmond

B) Williamsburg

C) Charlottesville

D) Alexandria

Answer · why

B) Williamsburg

Williamsburg, home of William & Mary, was a long trip by horse or stagecoach from New Haven, so the founders saw an urgent need for a college in the c...

Q 04/05

What advantage led the future university to choose the village of Princeton as its permanent home in the 1750s?

A) The colonial capital

B) A central location

C) A deepwater port

D) The governor's birthplace

Answer · why

B) A central location

A central location decided it: the royal governor backed the village as 'as near the center of the Province as any', and the college moved there from ...

Q 05/05

Nassau Hall is named for which monarch?

A) William III of England

B) George II of Great Britain

C) Anne, Queen of Great Britain

D) William the Silent of Orange

Answer · why

A) William III of England

William III of England got the honor only because the colony's governor refused to let the trustees name the building after him and asked them to hono...