Duke History
This was Duke University's name prior to renaming it in honor of the James Buchanan Duke's endowment of the college.
What is Trinity College?
This star of Community, The Masked Singer, and The Hangover movies earned his undergraduate degree from Duke before earning his MD from UNC.
Who is Ken Jeong?
This coach has been named the winningest coach in college basketball.
Who is Coach (K) Krzyzewski?
This 55-acre site is known as the crown jewel of Duke was originally supposed to be a lake.
What is Duke Gardens?
Durham is known as the Bull City and also by this nickname because it hosts more than 300 health-related companies and practices.
What is "The City of Medicine"?
In 1897 as part of providing land and money to Trinity College, Washington Duke required whom to be admitted?
Who are women?
This 1984 graduate of Duke is the Commissioner of the NBA and spoke at the 2023 Duke Commencement.
Who is Adam Silver?
This has been called the most exciting rivalry in college sports.
What is the Duke/UNC rivalry?
The French Science building is not called that because courses are taught in French. The building is named after this famous Duke alumnus.
Who is Melinda French Gates?
This Durham native and Hillside and NCCU graduate was the first African American male creative director of Vogue Magazine and a judge on America's Next Top Model.
Who is Andre Leon Talley?
In this year, Duke University's centennial, Duke has a goal to be completely carbon-neutral.
What is 2024?
Duke doesn't just look like Hogwarts, this Duke alumnus was a star of Mad Men, The Crown, and Chernobyl. He is also the son of Richard Harris who played Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter movie.
Who is Jared Harris?
This Duke basketball players shoes famously blew out during a February 2019 game against UNC.
Who is Zion Williamson?
The Duke Chapel was the first structure completed on West Campus. What was the second?
Wallace Wade Football stadium.
This area of Durham was nationally known by this name in the late 1800s and early 1900s because it was mecca for Black owned businesses.
What is Black Wall Street?
The French Alpine Rangers had this nickname which Duke adopted.
What are the Blue Devils?
He was Duke’s first black tenured professor, joining the faculty in 1966, three years after the university’s student body desegregated. He is also the first African American to hold a regular faculty appointment at any predominantly white college or university in the South. Duke honors his legacy annually with an awards banquet.
Who is Samuel DuBois Cook?
Prior to being called the Blue Devils, Duke's mascot was this, partially due to Wake Forest being called the Baptists.
What are the Methodists?
Duke has this many acres, equivalent to roughly 1.3 acre per undergraduate student.
What is 8,600 acres?
This Durham native, civil rights leader, and the first ordained female Episcopal minister will be featured on a US quarter as part of the American Women Quarters Program.
Who is Pauli Murray?
In 1942, Duke's Wallace Wade Stadium hosted this event. The only time it has been held outside of California
What is the Rose Bowl?
This prominent Black architect designed Duke University beginning in 1924. The main quad of Duke has been renamed in his honor.
Who is Julian Abele?
This is the Duke sports team that has won the most national championships.
What is women's golf?
Duke Forest is 7,000 acres and extends to these three counties.
What are Durham, Alamance, and Orange counties?
One of the earliest first sit-in of the Civil Rights movement took place in Durham on June 23, 1957, when seven Black men tried to sit a booth at this Royal Ice Cream Parlor, three years before another famous sit-in in this NC city.
What is the Greensboro, NC?