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Here in Hyde Park
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William Rainey Harper
Who was the first President of the University?
100
Includes elements such as spires, towers, cloisters and gargoyles.
What is English Gothic or Gothic Revival Style?
100
Nobel winner who escaped Fascist Italy to come to the University in 1942. There is a sculpture on Ellis Avenue between 57th and 55th that commemorates his important, world changing work.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
100
Longest continuously running student film organization in the U.S.
What is DOC films.
100
This Lecturer of Constitutional Law, and famous resident, went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
A: Who is Barack Obama?
200
She was initially told she could live in a dorm, then told she must find off-campus housing when she enrolled in 1907; In 1921 she was one of only three African Americans to receive a PhD.
Who was Georgiana Simpson?
200
Designed 'The Fountain of Time' at the west end of the Midway Plaisance, 1922. His home and studio are part of the campus.
Who is Loredo Taft?
200
Dr. Olunfunmilayo Olopade, leader in breast cancer research, won this genius award that happens to share the same name as a WWII General.
What is the MacArthur Award?
200
This annual May undergrad tradition includes a list of items and events, Olympics, a blood drive benefiting UChicago Medicine, and a road trip, though the precise form and content evolves from year to year.
What is Scav or the Scavenger Hunt?
200
This long time Hyde Park resident and Congressman made history by becoming Chicago’s First Black Mayor.
Who was Harold Washington?
300
The University President who established many of the undergraduate curricular innovations that the University is known for today, including comprehensive exams instead of course grades, emphasis on discussion, rather than lecture, and study of original documents and classic works.
Who is Robert Maynard Hutchins?
300
Another building that debuted in February 2013 and designed by Uruguayan architect of the Charles Harper Center, Robert Vinoly.
What is the new UCM Center for Care and Discovery?
300
Said this Nobel winner who has lent his name to a new institute, about a 1957 book based on his PhD. dissertation: "It contains the first systematic effort to use economic theory to analyze the effects of prejudice on the earnings, employment and occupations of minorities."
Who is Gary Becker?
300
December 11, 2015 was the 524rd occurrence of this event.
What is Convocation?
300
Respective months of the year when the 57th Street Art Fair and Hyde Park Jazz Festival are held.
What are June and September?
400
Founded the Laboratory Schools.
Who was John Dewey?
400
The name of either the home (original owner) or the world famous architect who designed it. The University purchased it in 1963; almost demolished in 1957 to become dorms for seminary students.
What is the Robie House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
400
John Carlstrom who measured the cosmic microwave background radiation of this event and verified the framework that supports modern cosmological theory.
Who verified the "Big Bang?"
400
Paulina Rincon-Delgadillo was the first PhD graduate of this new University Institute founded in 2011 and to be housed at the Eckhardt Center.
What is the Institute of Molecular Engineering?
400
Name of either Hyde Park resident: the poet (HOG butcher for the world; City of the Big Shoulders) or ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ and pioneering labor lawyer.
Who was Carl Sandburg or Clarence Darrow?
500
Published Intelligence and Cultural Differences; first African American to receive tenure at the University.
Who was Dr. Allison Davis?
500
Architect for the new North Campus Commons which recently broke ground and is tailored to the unique College Houses system to encourage community and learning outside the classroom.
What is Studio Gang or Who is Jeanne Gang?
500
Chicago Alumnus James Watson shared the 1962 Nobel prize for discovering the structure of this.
What is DNA?
500
Written by a UChicago alum, and made into a 2005 movie shot in part on campus, this play focuses on the relationship between a brilliant mathematician and his daughter.
What is Proof?
500
New products Cracker Jack, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and Quaker Oats along with musician Scott Joplin and the Hootchy-Kootchy were a few things to be widely popularized by this event.
What was the World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893?