Penn Lore
At Franklin Field, students make one chant/lyric painfully literal by launching this breakfast food onto the turf. (Bonus points if you tell us the lyric)
What is toast?
This luxury resort chain gives HBO’s murder mystery satire its title.
What is The White Lotus?
Opened in 1896, this Penn building claims the title of America’s first college union.
What is Houston Hall?
Billie Eilish and Finneas won the 2024 Oscar for this Barbie ballad.
What is 'What Was I Made For?"
UNESCO says this canal city was founded in the 5th century and spread across 118 small islands.
What is Venice?
Students wear straw hats, red shirts, and use canes during this spring Penn ritual.
What is Hey Day?
Quinta Brunson’s sitcom is set at this fictional Philadelphia public school.
What is Willard R. Abbott Elementary School?
Built in 1871–72, this green-stone landmark was the first building on Penn’s West Philadelphia campus.
Beyoncé finally won Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys for this genre-blurring album.
What is Cowboy Carter?
Thanks to overseas territories, this country technically spans 12 time zones.
What is France?
Penn Athletics notes that on Ivy Day, the graduating class traditionally did these two things to mark the occasion.
What are planting ivy and placing an Ivy Stone?
Carmy comes home to save this Chicago sandwich shop in The Bear.
What is The Original Beef of Chicagoland?
The site now occupied by this Penn institution once included a barn parcel, a farmhouse-turned-children’s asylum, and later plans for “Park and Botanic Gardens.”
What is the Penn Museum?
The Recording Academy’s Hall of Fame requires inducted recordings to be at least this many years old.
What is 25 years?
This country, long stereotyped for having huge numbers of sheep, fell below five sheep per person in 2022 for the first time since the 1850s.
What is New Zealand?
Penn archival finding aids preserve programs for this late-19th-century class ritual, which sounds much more alarming than it was: “_____ Exercises.”
What are Cremation Exercises?
In Severance, employees at this company undergo a procedure that surgically divides their work and personal memories.
What is Lumon Industries?
Completed in 1891, this Frank Furness building was planned with help from Melville Dewey and included what Penn describes as the first new library with a separate, fireproof steel bookstack whose outer wall could be moved as the collection expanded.
What is the Fisher Fine Arts Library?
Ludwig Göransson won the 2024 Oscar for Original Score for this Christopher Nolan film.
In this Himalayan kingdom, archery—called da—is the national sport.
What is Bhutan?
This now-forgotten Penn tradition appears in the University Archives photo collection right alongside Hey Day, Ivy Day, and May Day celebrations.
What are Bowl Fights?
In HBO’s The Last of Us, Joel’s brother Tommy helps lead this fortified Wyoming settlement.
What is Jackson?
At the 38th Street entrance to Hamilton Walk, the two remaining pillars mark the last surviving pieces of this 1899 Cope and Stewardson structure.
What is the Class of 1873 Gate?
Before Missy Elliott, this rapper became the first female rapper inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2023.
Who is Queen Latifah?
Name the only country with three capital cities (bonus points if you know the country)
What is South Africa?