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Belonging, Access, and Engagement
100

What is the name of the castle?

What is the Livingston C. Lord Building or Old Main?

100

Name the 3 quads.

What are the library, north, and south quads?

100

EIU's official colors.

What are blue and gray?
100

The year that EIU was opened.

What is 1895?

100

This organization works for the rights of the community to express their sexual orientation and gender identity freely and openly.

What is EIU Pride

200

The oldest female residence hall in Illinois.

What is Pemberton Hall?

200

The tallest building in Charleston.

What is Stevenson Hall?
200

The mascot of Eastern Illinois University

Billy the Panther

200

The hall that caught fire in 2004.

What is Blair Hall?
200

This person was the first African-American graduate of EIU and recently had a residence hall named after them.

Who is Zella Powell

300

The number of residence halls on campus.

What is 9?

300

The residence hall that is supposedly haunted.

What is Pemberton Hall?

300

The type of animal that is buried on campus.

What is a dog?

300

The Daily Eastern News (DEN) became an independent student run newspaper.

What is 1951.

300

The Black Student Union (BSU) was founded this year.

What is 1968.

400

The number of dining halls on campus.

What is 3?

400

The original use of the Triad (McKinney, Ford, & Weller).

What are military barracks?

400

The president of EIU.

Jay Gatrell

400

The year Pemberton Hall was constructed.

What is 1909?

400

This center was established in 1971 and served as a place for African-American students to gather.

What is the Cultural Center

500

The new name of Douglas Hall.

What is Powell-Norton?

500

Where the bookstore is located.

What is the Martin Luther King Jr. Union?

500

The reason Charleston was chosen to host EIU and not Mattoon.

What is better water quality?

500
EIU changed its name from Eastern Illinois State College to Eastern Illinois University. 

What is 1953.

500

The EIU Office of Civil Rights and Diveristy enures compliance with what federal law proteting against discrimination in education.

What Title IX.

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