AMHERST TRIVIA
This is the highest number of majors completed by a single student in Amherst College history.
What is four?
This nation won the 2026 FIFA World Cup at MetLife Stadium.
What is Spain?
This wall divided a German city until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Number of stripes on the U.S. flag.
What is 13?
This four-piece English rock band from Liverpool sparked a global "Mania" in the 1960s with hits like "Hey Jude".
Who were The Beatles?
The number of registered student organizations on the Amherst College campus.
What is 150?
The winning team of the first-ever collegiate baseball game.
What is Amherst?
This person was the British Prime Minister for most of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This is the smallest country in the world by area.
What is Vatican City?
This left-handed guitarist who played a right-handed guitar flipped it upside down.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
The name of the skeleton of the Columbian mammoth in the Beneski Museum.
What is Bebu?
The fastest sport played on two feet.
What is lacrosse?
In 1996, this country created a constitution that explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
What is South Africa?
The U.S. president who served more than two terms in office.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This German composer famously continued writing epic masterpieces, including his Ninth Symphony, after going completely deaf.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the date when Amherst College became a coeducational institution.
What is November 2, 1974?
This person holds the record for the most fouls in NBA history.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
The historic document, signed in 1215 by King John, established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
The surface temperature of Venus, roughly in Fahrenheit.
What is 864°F?
This 1920s Louis Armstrong jazz ensemble revolutionized the genre by emphasizing individual soloists.
Who is the Hot Five?
This structure, built in 1847 to house an astronomical telescope and a cabinet of natural history, is the oldest existing building designed by an independent architect on the Amherst campus.
What is the Octagon?
This person won the first-ever modern Olympic marathon in 1896.
Who is Spyridon Louis (Greece)?
The name of the medieval fortress and political prison stormed on July 14, 1789, that served as the flashpoint for the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
This is Genghis Khan's birth name.
What is Temüjin?
This highly influential Houston hip-hop collective, founded by DJ Screw in the early 1990s, pioneered the "chopped and screwed" production technique and included members like Fat Pat and Big Hawk.
What is the Screwed Up Click?