Purdue History
The benefactor whose donation helped establish the school and Purdue is named after
Who is John Purdue?
What is forty?
The name of Purdue’s mascot
Who is Purdue Pete?
Number of women’s cooperative houses
What is seven?
Purdue's large annual celebration each spring featuring student engineering projects
What is Grand Prix?
The year that Purdue University was founded
What is 1869?
Number of bedrooms that Ann Tweedale has
What is ten?
The name of Purdue’s basketball arena
What is Mackey Arena?
Number of men’s cooperative houses
What is four?
A Purdue building that has a giant “P” logo that can be seen from Google Earth
What is Ross–Ade Stadium?
The academic focus that Purdue originally intended to emphasize under the Morrill Land-Grant Act
What is agriculture and engineering?
Number of semesters in a row that Ann Tweedale held the highest FSCL GPA
What is five?
The Purdue football stadium
What is Ross–Ade Stadium?
The dancing competition between houses
What is serenades?
The Purdue marching band
What is the All-American Marching Band?
The Purdue alumnus that was the first person to walk on the Moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Ann Tweedale’s biggest philanthropy
What is Riley’s Children’s hospital?
The nickname for Purdue basketball team’s student section
What is The Paint Crew?
The symbol for cooperatives
What is two pine trees?
The Purdue campus landmark that has a fountain that students often jump into
What is the Engineering Fountain?
Purdue University’s first president
Who is Richard Dale Owen?
The color of Ann Tweedale’s front door
What is red?
The Purdue sport that won the school’s first national championship in 1932
What is Men’s Golf?
What is 400?
A Purdue invention that helped revolutionize the agricultural industry and is still widely used today
What is hybrid corn?