Landmarks
This lake in Princeton is actually man-made and is the training course for Team USA Rowing:
a) Mercer Lake
b) Carnegie Lake
c) Farrington Lake
b) Carnegie Lake
Princeton played against this school in the first intercollegiate football game — losing by two points.
a) Yale
b) Rutgers
c) Dartmouth
b) Rutgers
This battle served to boost morale during the American Revolution and helped oust most British troops from New Jersey.
a) Battle of Springfield
b) Battle of Princeton
c) Battle of Short Hills
b) Battle of Princeton
This founding father of the U.S.A. was rejected from Princeton and ended up attending another Ivy institution.
a) Alexander Hamilton
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) James Madison
a) Alexander Hamilton
Princeton was the first university to normalize the use of this term.
a) college
b) campus
c) field
b) campus
This building served as the nation’s capital for a few months in 1783, playing host to the meetings of the Continental Congress. It was the largest stone building in all the colonies when it was finished in 1756, and was fired on by cannons in the American Revolution.
a) Green Hall
b) Maclean House
c) Nassau Hall
c) Nassau Hall
In 2020, this athletic team won Princeton its 500th Ivy League title, making the university the first to reach 500 in the Ivy League athletic championships.
a) men’s swimming
b) women’s basketball
c) men’s wrestling
c) men’s wrestling
This Princeton alumnus was the third man on the moon and brought a Princeton flag with him there. He is known for saying, “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil but that’s a long one for me” as he took a step on the moon.
a) Charles “Pete” Conrad
b) Buzz Aldrin
c) Alan Bean
a) Charles “Pete” Conrad
This Princeton alumna majored in sociology and minored in African-American studies. Her senior thesis was titled, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” and is housed at Mudd Manuscript Library.
a) Toni Morrison
b) Michelle Obama
c) Brooke Shields
b) Michelle Obama
This was Princeton’s original name before the university officially changed the name to “Princeton” in 1896.
a) College of New Jersey
b) Queens College
c) New Jersey City University
a) College of New Jersey
This weapon is buried underneath Princeton (there are actually two of them, in different locations).
a) Cannon
b) Musket
c) Sword
a) Cannon
In 1979, a group of Princeton students kidnapped this rival school’s mascot by dressing up as the rival school’s cheerleaders and asking to borrow the mascot for pictures.
a) MIT
b) Harvard
c) Yale
c) Yale
Princeton was split into a township and borough because this religious group requested to remain a separate entity from the rest of the township.
a) Presbyterians
b) Amish
c) Quakers
c) Quakers
This founding father of the U.S.A. graduated from Princeton in 1771 at age 20 — finishing his college career in 2 years, but staying 1 more year to study Hebrew with President of Princeton, John Witherspoon.
a) James Madison
b) Aaron Burr, Jr.
c) George Washington
a) James Madison
This is the oldest college literary and debating club in the United States; graduates include two U.S. presidents, two U.S. vice presidents, and four U.S. Supreme Court justices.
a) Debate Society
b) Philanthropic and Dialectic Society
c) The American Whig-Cliosophic Society
c) The American Whig-Cliosophic Society
The university was moved to this city one year after its founding, before it was moved back to Princeton in 1756.
a) New Brunswick
b) Newark
c) Trenton
b) Newark
In 2016, this athletic team earned the Ivy League’s first ever at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. In 2015, the team went through the regular season undefeated, with a record of 30-0.
a) men’s basketball
b) women’s basketball
c) women’s volleyball
b) women’s basketball
The Witherspoon Street Church at Number 124 is known for assisting this.
a) Underground Railroad
b) Polaris
c) Habitat for Humanity
a) Underground Railroad
This poet is the cousin of a popular Princeton University varsity football player (the football player cousin later became the Attorney General of the State of Maryland).
a) Robert Frost
b) Walt Whitman
c) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Edgar Allan Poe
Princeton temporarily admitted women for the first time after this famous historical event. However, the university wouldn’t become officially coeducational until a long while later, in 1969.
a) Passage of the 19th amendment (women’s suffrage)
b) Pearl Harbor attack
c) The beginning of WWI
b) Pearl Harbor attack
This house served as the official home of Woodrow Wilson during his tenure as Princeton president 1902-1910 and is now used as a faculty club.
a) Prospect House
b) Maclean House
c) Nassau Hall
a) Prospect House
This percentage of undergraduates participate in varsity sports.
a) 24%
b) 9%
c) 18%
c) 18%
The Charcoal Inn in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood was known as this private social club for African Americans in the early 20th century; the club membership was invitation-only.
a) The John Street House
b) Nemderoloc
c) Teague-Green
b) Nemderoloc
In 1964, T’sai-ying Cheng became the first woman at Princeton to do this.
a) Receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree
b) Receive a Bachelor of Science degree
c) Enroll
a) Receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree
The lyrics to Princeton’s alma mater:
In praise of ________,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Our hearts shall ______, while they shall ______,
_____ cheers for ______!
Old Nassau; give; live; three; Old Nassau