History
The year PBK was founded.
What is 1776?
Wealthiest PBK Alumni.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
The current Board President.
Who is Bill Monroe?
The first college campus chapter.
What is the College of William & Mary?
This is what "PBK" stands for
What is Phi Beta Kappa?
The year the first women were invited to join PBK.
What is 1875?
Previous NFL player belonging to PBK.
Who is Peyton Manning?
Month of our annual scholarship dinner.
What is April?
Name 3 PBK college chapters in Texas.
What are University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Southern Methodist University,
Texas Christian University, Trinity University,
Baylor University, University of Dallas,
Southwestern University, Austin College, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, University of Houston?
Percentage of U.S. colleges and universities that have a PBK chapter.
What is 10%?
Year the American Scholar was first published.
What is 1932?
Name 2 PBK Supreme Court Justices (current or past).
Who are John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor? (42 supreme court justices in total)
Number of Scholarships awarded each year (within 5).
What is 66?
First Ivy League to establish a chapter.
What is Yale University?
Location of the PBK headquarters.
What is Washington D.C.?
This secret sign indicated membership in PBK.
What is drawing the back of your index and middle fingers across their lips to signify that your lips were sealed?
Current CEO of PBK.
Who is Frederick M. Lawrence?
What is $5000?
Number of chapters nationwide.
The meaning of the three stars in the upper left corner of the key.
What are Friendship, Morality, and Literature?
This historical event almost led to the end of PBK following the closure of its founding college.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Number of presidents who were PBK.
What is 17? (Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, FDR, Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams)
Year the Houston Alumni Chapter was founded.
What is 1977?
One of the three recently added campus chapters (2024).
What are College of Charleston, Gonzaga University, and Texas State University?
The PBK motto.
What is "Love of learning is the guide of life," a phrase the founders derived from the Greek Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης?