Sports
This place has an official capacity of 106,572 people making it the fourth-largest stadium in the world and second largest in the western hemisphere.
What is Beaver Stadium?
Name the year that Penn State was founded.
What is 1885?
Name this building that 4.5 million pounds of milk passes through each year making delicious ice cream.
What is Berkey Creamery?
The name of the new ice hockey facility.
What is Pegula Ice Arena?
Penn State has Thon every year for this reason.
What is to raise money for kids with cancer?
Penn State alumni Ty Burrell stars on the TV show "Modern Family" as this character.
Who is Phil Dunphy?
The mascot before the Nittany Lion
What is Coaly the mule?
The original name of Penn State.
What is Farmers’ High School?
This statue is the 2nd most photographed object in Pennsylvania
What is the Nittany Lion statue?
The number of residence halls located on University Park campus.
What is 5?
The acronym for FTK stands for
What is For The Kids?
This Penn State Alumni is best known for the comedy show, "Key & Peele".
Who is Keegan Michael Key?
Name the University or College that Joe Paterno attended.
What is Brown University?
Penn State colors before blue and white
What is black and pink?
The number of Penn State branch campuses
What is 24?
Until 1893, Penn State teams participated in sporting events in front of this University Park campus building.
What is Old Main?
In 1977 Penn State Thon made its first contribution to this fund
What is the Four Diamonds Fund?
Joonas Suotamo, a Penn State alumni, is now playing this seven foot tall fluffy character.
Who is Chewbacca?
The number of times Penn State wrestling team won National Championships in a row.
What is 4?
The original name of the Penn State Blue Band.
What is the Cadet Band?
This person was the only one to received a two-flavor Creamery ice cream cone
Who is Bill Clinton?
This dynamic duo took an ice cream-making class at Penn State's Creamery in 1977 and went on to launch their first ice cream store in Vermont.
What is Ben & Jerry?
The amount of money raised during Thon in 2023 (round to the nearest millionth)
What is $15 million?
$15,006,132.46.
Mark Parker, a Penn State alumni, is the CEO for this famous athletic shoe company
What is Nike?
The football player that was the reason for the creation of the "WE ARE" chant
Who is Wally Triplett?
These two buildings are located just across the street from each other, and were donated by two of the richest men of the late-nineteenth century.
What is Schwab and Carnegie?
Paul Berg graduated from Penn State in 1948 and won this prestigious prize in Chemistry in 1980.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
The original name of the HUB Robeson Center
What is Hetzel Union Building?
The year Thon first came about
What is 1973?
This Avenger graduated from Penn State in 1964.
Who is Bruce Banner? (The Incredible Hulk)
Name the year that Penn State began to play in the Big Ten.
What is 1993?
Reason why Old Main was rebuilt in 1930.
What is fire?
This is the acceptance rate at Penn State University
What is 51%?
This Penn State president served 24 years, which is the longest tenure of any Penn State president
Who is George W. Atherton
In 2002, this event was held for the first time
What is THON 5K?
This well known actor was a Penn State Alumni, born in 1912, and was known for his athletic dancing style.
Who is Gene Kelly?
Penn State played against the same team twice in their very first year of football in 1887, name the team that they played.
What is Bucknell?
These two Penn State alumnus (husband and wife) have made the largest donation in university history
What is Terrance and Kim Pegula?
University Park sits on this many acres (round to the nearest thousandth)
What is 8,000 (7,958)?
This popular nickname was established describing Penn State during the Great Depression, because the area didn't suffer as intense of a financial impact as the rest of the country.
What is Happy Valley?
These 4 locations have hosted THON weekend in past years
BJC, Rec Hall, Hub, White Building
This broadcast journalist can be seen on Good Morning America and was a member of the swimming and diving team at Penn State.
Who is Lara Spencer?
Number of club Sport Teams at University Park
What is 57?
Centre County became the site of the new college in response to a gift of 200 acres from this gentleman farmer and ironmaster
Who is James Irvin?
In the 1960s, these four buildings on the University Park campus had something in common: Hammond Building, East Halls, Chambers Building, and Old Main. Name the characteristic that they all share.
What are fallout shelters?
Name of the person who sculpted the Nittany Lion Shrine
Who is Heinz Warneke
In this year THON raised more than $1 million for the first time
What is 1992?
This co-founder of the Fisher-Price Toy Company graduated from Penn State's School of Business in 1921.
Who is Herman Fisher?