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100

Who’s nobel prize in chemistry is in the private dining room?

John Polanyi

100

How many different disciplines are there at Massey College

4

100

Who laid the first stone of Massey College in 1963?

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh

100

What room at Massey College has 3 secret hidden storage spaces?

The Round Room

100

Who are the wisdom windows dedicated to in the Upper Library?

Rose Wolfe and Ursula Franklin 

200

What architect redesigned the lower library and the chapel?

Brigitte Shim

200

What year were female students allowed to come to massey?

1974

200

Which member of British royalty signed the bible in the Chapel?

Queen Elizabeth II
200

What family owned the first Massey Dog?

Fraser Family

200

Who took a Massey spoon to space? 

Julie Payette

300

Who is quoted in the Ondaatje Dining Hall? 

George Santayana

300

How many college graduates can Massey accommodate?

60

300

What royal family has stayed at Massey College?


The King and Queen of Sweden (King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia) 

300

What hazing ritual must every new don endure?

To be dunked into the pond

300

What famous russian balet dancer and senior fellow of Massey defected with the help of John Fraser?

Mikhail Baryshnikov
400

Who is Massey’s current visitor?

Robert Prichard

400

What is the code to the computer room

521
400

What member of royalty has the wampum belt that is supposed to be in the Massey Chapel Royal?

King Charles III
400

What riding did our past principal, Nathalie Des Rosiers represent as an MPP?

Ottawa-Vanier
400

Which senior fellow is the director of Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Peter Martin

500

Who is Masseys environmentalist in resident?

Sir Graham Watson

500

What year was Massey College founded?

1963

500

Who are the two distinguished honorary fellows at Massey?

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Patten of Barnes 

500

What patron saint is the bell dedicated to at Massey?

St. Catherine

500

Which Senior Fellow put a 3D resin printer in his residence while he was staying at Massey?

Ruedinger Willenberg

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