KN TRIVIA QUIZ

1. What two KNs stole the Big C from the hill overlooking campus?

2. Name any two KN cooks.

3. Can you name two KNs who started on the offensive line for the Golden Bear football team?

4. The KN vs. ZBT intramural football game in 1959, also known as "The Nose Bowl," was won by the KNs, 6-0.  Can you name the KN running back that scored the only touchdown?

5. Who was the first "Animal," after whom the Animal Award was named?

6. What KN owned a hot car whose headlights were exact replicas of women's breasts?

7. What event caused the Daily Cal headline to read: "The Masses are Asses?"

8. Who was the perennial winner of  "The Brown Suit Award,"  for being crapped on by the most women?

9. What KN became known as "Horny Hands," a name which has lasted to this day?

10. Which KN actually asked Kim Novak for a date, and has kept her very polite rejection letter to this day?

11. What was the real name of the "Crunchy Munchy Man?"

12. What famous movie and TV star who died recently, worked cleaning up in Hank's Pool Parlor behind Kip's on Durant, between 1957 and 1960?

13. Most KNs drove into Oakland when they wanted a really good pizza.  Can you name that favorite KN Pizza Parlor?

14. Barrie Engel was rumored to be the real OSKI, but it was only a rumor.  Can you name a KN who WAS the real OSKI?

15. Can you name a KN who won dozens of literary prizes, but whose first ever novel, "Pageant of Youth," was about life in the Cal Kappa NU fraternity?

16. What KN from the U. of Alabama, who starred on "60 Minutes" for more than 50 years, didn't even flinch when the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan told him in a TV interview that "Nigras are black on the outside, but Jews are black on the inside?"

17. Name the KN who was the coxswain on the CAL national champion eight-man rowing crew?

18. Name the lost dog of the chancellor, whom, if found, the chancellor would cancel final exams? 

19. Why did all the KNs have to sleep out on the lawn dividing strip on Piedmont Avenue on Homecoming Weekend featuring CAL vs. UCLA, on the night after the game? 

20. According to legend, what Air ROTC student commander, on the last drill day of the year, reported to his faculty senior officer in front of the entire gathering, "All men pissed off on account of you, sir!"  instead of, "All men present and accounted for. Sir?

21. What was the "Phantom Chicken?"

22. What elicited the singing at the dining table of the song, "Stand up, stand up, stand up Irwin Feinberg, stand up?"

23. What KN president was featured on the front page of the SF Chronicle coming out of the AEPhi house with a bra in one hand and a pair of panties in the other?

24. Why were the ’57-59 All-U Table Tennis Championships, which drew hundreds of spectators, called “The Battle of the Gaza Strip?

25. Before KN became ZBT, it was first transferred to what national fraternity?

26. Name the popular Orange Freeze Slush/Drink which was sold at CAL football games.

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Can you identify these students?

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