SSND Foundation Day
In what town and country did the SSND begin?
What is Neunburg vorm Wald, Bavaria (modern-day Germany).
Founded in 1636, this Ivy League institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest university in the United States?
What is Harvard.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this novel about Jay Gatsby and the American Dream?
What is The Great Gatsby.
Drafted in 1215, this famous charter of rights was annulled by Pope Innocent III just ten weeks after it was issued, sparking the First Barons' War?
What is the Magna Carta.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final, unfinished masterpiece was this mass for the dead, which a mysterious stranger commissioned him to write?
What is the Requiem.
Who are the three women who began living a common religious life on that first Foundation Day?
Caroline Gerhardinger (later Blessed Theresa of Jesus), Barbara Weinzierl, and Maria Blass.
From the Latin for "first laureate," this 4-year undergraduate degree is typically awarded in the arts or sciences?
What is a Bachelor's degree.
In a 125-author poll, this sweeping 1870s novel about a Russian aristocrat was ranked as one of the greatest works of fiction of all time?
What is Anna Karenina.
Discovered by Bénédict Prévost in 1807, this transition metal is the only metal besides gold that has a natural color other than silver or gray?
What is copper.
This Italian priest and composer wrote a set of four violin concertos depicting Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter?
Who is Antonio Vivaldi.
What social crisis prompted the founding of the congregation?
Poverty, illiteracy, and a lack of Christian education for young girls following political upheaval in Bavaria. Blessed Theresa believed that because mothers are a family’s primary educators, the Christian education of girls was vital to renewing society.
This Italian physician and educator developed a child-centered learning method in the early 1900s that emphasizes self-directed activity?
Who was Maria Montessori.
This 1944 novel Absent in the Spring is one of the non-mystery romances she wrote under the pen name Mary Westmacott?
Who is Agatha Christie.
In this 1897 gothic horror novel, the epistolary narrative begins on May 3rd with a young English solicitor named Jonathan Harker traveling through Transylvania?
What is Dracula.
George Frideric Handel's famous Messiah oratorio features this triumphant chorus during which audiences traditionally stand up?
What is the Hallelujah Chorus.
When did the School Sisters of Notre Dame first arrive in North America?
July 1847 (landing in New York before establishing their first mission school in St. Marys, Pennsylvania).
In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
What was Brown v. Board of Education.
With the same initials as the author, Harry Haller is the loner protagonist of this 1927 German novel?
What is Steppenwolf.
hough it is a territory of Denmark, this landmass is geographically part of the North American continent and stands as the world's largest island?
What is Greenland.
Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring caused a literal riot at its premiere in this European capital city?
What is Paris.
What milestone historical first did the SSND achieve in higher education in the United States?
They established the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1896, which was the first Catholic college for women in the U.S. to offer a four-year degree.
In education, this 4-letter acronym stands for the interdisciplinary study of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics?
What is STEM.
Best known for her dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, this Canadian author also wrote The Testaments?
Who is Margaret Atwood.
Composed between 1804 and 1808, this structural masterpiece's famous four-note opening motif is often described as "fate knocking at the door."?
hat is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (or Symphony No. 5).
This 20th-century American composer integrated jazz with classical music to give us masterpieces like Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris?
Who is George Gershwin.