Round 1
Which fixture of BU’s campus community, named after the Dean of Marsh Chapel from 1953-1965, recently relocated to a larger, newly-renovated space at 808 Commonwealth Avenue?
Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
YouTube personality Jenna Marbles received her masters degree from which BU school, recently renamed after the 2018 merger with another local institution?
Wheelock College of Education and Human Development (School of Education)
What is the name of Boston University’s summer music training program, under the auspices of the College of Fine Arts and located in Lenox, Massachusetts?
Tanglewood Institute
What road is responsible for the sound of “waves” heard by those who lounge on the grassy expanse of the BU Beach?
Storrow Drive
The BU Football team made its one and only appearance in the Pasadena Bowl in what year, a mere six months after Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon?
1969
Originally built by William Lindsey in 1915 in the Tudor-revival style, The BU Castle is now known by what name in recognition of the BU trustee and her husband who made a $2 million gift to support its renovation in 2018?
The Dahod Family Alumni Center
Olympic champion Michael Phelps filmed a commercial for which sandwich company in the competition pool at BU’s Fitness and Recreation Center in 2008?
Subway
Which member of Katie Perry’s Super Bowl dance crew made an unexpected appearance during Meredith Vieira’s 2015 Commencement address?
Left Shark
Affectionately known as the “BU Beach”, what is the official name for the stretch of green between the Alan and Sherry Leventhal Center and the BU Law Complex, named after the CAS’42 alumnus and donor who also made the naming gift for Brown’s medical school in 2007?
Warren Alpert Mall
The film 21, a 2008 telling of the fact-based story of six MIT students who become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings, used which BU building as the set of many “in-school” shots?
CAS or College of Arts and Sciences
After his stolen base in the second game of the 2007 World Series garnered a free taco for everyone in America, which Red Sox player made an appearance at the Taco Bell on BU’s campus to hype up the promotion?
Jacoby Ellsbury (Tacoby Bellsbury)
Produced by COM alumna Bonnie Arnold, best known for producing Toy Story, Tarzan, and Over the Hedge, which film took flight in 2010 and ultimately resulted in two additional box office hits to complete the award-winning trilogy?
How To Train Your Dragon
Designed by Sergio Castillo in 1975 for Marsh Plaza, by what name is the sculpture composed of 50 doves known, a nod to the memorable words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" speech which Castillo used as inspiration for the piece?
Free at Last
What is the name of the pizza shop in Agganis Arena, a nod to Boston’s oldest residential neighborhood claiming the city’s largest concentration of Italian restaurants?
North End Pizza
Named after the BU building in which it took place, what is the name of the 1962 study conducted by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert where twenty School of Theology divinity students were given psilocybin to evaluate whether it can catalyze religious/spiritual experiences?
The Marsh Chapel Experiment
Leaving prior to completion of his senior year to pursue an acting career (though he did ultimately receive an honorary degree), which BU student was pushed toward comedy by a teacher who said, “I know your heart and soul are Hamlet, but you will never play Hamlet”?
Jason Alexander