Famous PBK Members
This famous Phi Beta Kappa member was not only a U.S. president, but also an author, historian, cattle ranch owner, and a war hero.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt Jr.?
President from 1901-1909, graduated from Harvard University and was inducted in 1880.
This person's signature is the first on theDeclaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
Solve for x: 2 * 5x = 250
What is 3?
PBK was founded at this American college.
What is William & Mary?
This fruit is technically a berry, while strawberries and raspberries are not.
What is a banana?
This famous Phi Beta Kappa member is best known for his literary works. Which include The Naming of Cats, Little Gidding, and The Waste Land.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
Graduated from Harvard University in 1935. By this point in time, he had actually renounced his American citizenship and was now a British subject.
Facebook was Launched this Year
When is 2004?
Swim this many laps in a high school swimming pool to swim 250 meters. You would be swimming double the laps of an Olympic pool.
What is 10?
PBK’s second ever chapter was founded in 1780 at this New England university.
What is Yale?
This country has the world’s longest coastline, stretching over 202,000 miles.
What is Canada?
This is our youngest Phi Beta Kappa member for today's trivia. She is a poet, activist, and model and rose to fame in 2021 after delivering her poem. "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden.
Who is Amanda S.C. Gorman?
Graduated in 2020 from Harvard College.
The US just broke the record of the most Olympic Gold medals won in one Winter Olympics with 12. This was the previous record.
What is 10?
You would need to check in this number of suitcases if you want to check in 250 pounds of luggage at an airport, assuming you’re flying economy class.
What is 5?
A Virginian member of the House of Representatives from 1793-1797, he was PBK’s first president.
Who is John Health?
This food was once so valuable in 17th-century Europe that it was often used as currency and gifted as a luxury item.
What is chocolate?
This famous Phi Beta Kappa member was blind and death. She was an accomplished author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. She was also a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Who is Helen Adams Keller?
She went blind and death at 19 months old and graduated Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
This was the first President to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
When it was released in 2004, this music player was priced at $250 and introduced a revolutionary user interface based around a Click Wheel.
What is the iPod mini?
This is the number of PBK Chapters at universities across the country.
How many is 299?
This is the largest organism on Earth.
What is the honey fungus?
This Phi Beta Kappa member developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
Graduated with a degree in Chemistry from the City College of New York in 1934.
This US President purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. Doubling the size of the US.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the closest prime number to 250.
What is 251?
PBK published its first ever issue of the American Scholar in this year.
When is 1932?
This year is when the PBK Greater Detroit Association was founded.
When is 1938?