Alumni
This notable Northwestern alum married into the British royal family.
Meghan Markle
Name all six undergraduate schools at Northwestern University.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points if you can give us the full government name of each school!
1. Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (Weinberg)
2. School of Education and Social Policy (SESP)
3. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (McCormick)
4. Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications (Medill)
5. Bienen School of Music (Bienen)
6. School of Communications (School of Comms)
Willie the Wildcat, our fearsome mascot, wears this number on his jersey.
The number 00
This is the oldest building on campus.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points by telling me what year it was built!
University Hall (Completed in 1869)
Northwestern sits at this spot on the U.S. News Best Colleges Ranking.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points by naming one of the three colleges we are tied with!
Number 6 (We are tied with CalTech, Duke, and Hopkins)
This famous Northwestern alum wrote the books which became the basis for the hit series "Game of Thrones".
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points by saying what he studied!
George R.R. Martin (Journalism and History, 1970)
This major makes up 22% of all undergraduate students at Northwestern.
Economics
Northwestern won the NCAA titles in these sports during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Women's Lacrosse and Women's Golf,
This religious group founded Northwestern University to serve the Northwest Territory.
Methodists
This silly saying has convinced many students to take on three degrees, four clubs, and two jobs all at the same time.
"AND is in our DNA!"
This famous musician attended Northwestern for two years before dropping out.
Pharrell Williams
This professor was Northwestern's most recent Nobel Prize laureate.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points if you can tell me the subject and the year that they won.
Sir Fraser Stoddart (Chemistry, 2016)
This Northwestern men's basketball player was drafted by the OKC Thunder in the 2025 NBA Draft.
BONUS: Win an extra 25 points if you can name the draft pick.
Brooks Barnhizer (44th overall pick)
Alcohol wasn't legally sold in Evanston until this year.
1972
Since 2015, Bienen Alumni have won this many Grammy Awards.
13
These two Northwestern alumni recently took home awards at the 77th Emmy Awards.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points if you can name which award each won!
Stephen Colbert (Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series) and Britt Lower (Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series)
Northwestern University adopted the quarter system in this year.
1942
Northwestern has this many intercollegiate varsity teams.
BONUS: Win an extra 25 points if you can tell me the breakdown of men and women's teams!
19 Teams (8 Men's and 11 Women's)
These were the original colors of Northwestern University, before it was discovered too many schools had the same colors.
Black and Gold
These artists were our past five Dillo Day Headliners.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points by naming them in order of appearance!
Natasha Bedingfield, Swae Lee, Offset, Dominic Fike, and 2 Chainz
This Northwestern Law School grad was the only son of the 16th President of the United States to live past the age of 18 and outlive both of his parents.
10 points if you can only name the president.
Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's eldest son)
This degree is the most recent addition to the Northwestern academic roster.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points by telling me what year it was introduced!
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Minor (Introduced in 2024)
This is the longest losing streak in Northwestern Football history.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points if you can provide the time range.
34 games (Sep 1979 - Sep 1982)
The Rock was donated to the university by this class year.
BONUS: Win an extra 50 points if you can tell me what decade people started painting The Rock!
Class of 1902 (Painting began in the 1940s)
In the 1960s, Northwestern Students voted to change the Football Team's name from the Wildcats to this.
Purple Haze