PIKE
Ball State
All Fraternity History
Indiana
Miscellaneous
100

Founded in 1868, Pi Kappa Alpha traces its origins to this U.S. state.

Virginia

100

Ball State is located here

Muncie

100

This colonial American college is considered the birthplace of the first Greek-letter fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776.

William & Mary

100

Indiana was admitted into the USA in this year 

1916

100

In the UK what is the day after Christmas called

Boxing Day

200

Pi Kappa Alpha was founded at this historic liberal arts institution located in Farmville, Virginia.

Hampden Sydney College

200

This is the Ball State Mascot

Charlie Cardinal

200

Founded in 1825 at Union College, this fraternity is considered the first of the “Union Triad,” helping popularize Greek-letter societies in the United States.

Kappa Alpha Society

200

This Native American leader of the Shawnee played a central role in Indiana history by forming a confederation to resist U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.

Tecumseh

200

Eli Came from this university

idk dont ask me

300

Pi Kappa Alpha was established during this turbulent period in U.S. history, just three years after its conclusion.

The Civil War

300

Ball State was saved from closure in 1918 when these five brothers purchased the school and donated it to the state of Indiana.

Ball Brothers

300

Unlike most early fraternities, this organization—founded in 1776—eventually transformed into an academic honor society rather than a social fraternity.

Phi Beta Kappa

300

This was the capitol before Indianapolis

Corydon

300

The name of the plastic or metal tube found on the ends of shoelaces?

Aglet

400

This Founder is a PIKE alum and started this Chicken Empire

Chick Fil A

400

Originally founded as the Eastern Division of this institution, Ball State later became an independent university.

Indiana State Normal School

400

This term describes the rapid spread of Greek-letter fraternities during the mid-19th century, especially as colleges expanded westward in the United States.

Fraternity Movement

400

This Indiana-born jurist authored the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), later remembered for his strong dissent in Lochner v. New York.

Justice David J. Brewer

400

What is a group of Flamingoes called

a Flamboyance

500

This group of six men founded Pi Kappa Alpha in 1868 and are collectively honored by the fraternity.

William Alexander

James Benjamin Sclater Jr

Littleton Waller Tazewell Bradford

Julian Edward Wood

Robertson Howard

Frederick Southgate Taylor

500

Ball State University’s official motto, adopted to reflect its educational mission, is written in this language and translates to “Education for Living.”

Latin Educatio Vitae 

500

Founded in 1906 at Cornell University, this organization became the first interfraternity conference, later evolving into today’s North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC).

National Interfraternity Conference

500

This town in Indiana raised three of our members and had the highest Klan presence in the state

Noblesville

500

This President born in 1790 had his last grandson died in 2025

John Tyler

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