Quizzes & Puzzles How Well Do You Know Cornell? We shot a dozen extreme close-ups of buildings and other East Hill landmarks. Can you recognize them? Difficulty Level: Challenging 1) On what building do these heads appear? Schoellkopf Memorial Hall Ives Hall East Olin Library Cascadilla Hall None 2) Where is this wrought-iron flora? Minns Garden Ruth Uris Garden Cornell Botanic Gardens Dean’s Garden None 3) This is the exterior of what building? Biotechnology Building Weill Hall Duffield Hall Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts None 4) Of what is this a detail? A.D. White statue, Arts Quad “Walking Man II” sculpture, Johnson Museum Ezra Cornell statue, Arts Quad “The Young Lincoln” statue, Uris Library None 5) This is on what building’s façade? Tjaden Hall Baker Lab Barnes Hall Olin Hall None 6) Where can this be found? Anabel Taylor Hall Sage Chapel War Memorial, between Lyon and McFaddin halls Goldwin Smith Hall None 7) Of what is this is a closeup? Sundial, Engineering Quad “Herakles in Ithaca I” sculpture, next to Statler Hotel “Invitation to the Dance” sculpture, Lab of Ornithology “Bookstack” sculpture, behind Sibley Hall None 8) Where is this carving? Rockefeller Hall Temple of Zeus, Klarman Hall Mann Library Willard Straight Hall None 9) Where is this colorful tile? Sage Chapel Uris Library Sage Hall Day Hall None 10) What building sports these bas reliefs? Willard Straight Hall King-Shaw Hall Morrison Hall Wing Hall None 11) Where is this statue? Goldwin Smith Hall Temple of Zeus, Klarman Hall Johnson Museum Sage Chapel None 12) Of what artwork is this is a close-up? “Feeding the Birds” sculpture, Minns Garden “Song of the Vowels” sculpture, between Uris and Olin libraries “Double Variation” sculpture, Johnson Museum lawn “Passenger Pigeon” sculpture, Lab of Ornithology None Time’s up All photos by Jason Koski / Cornell University Published December 21, 2022 Comments Maria D. Schoen, Class of 1977 22 Dec, 2022 This quiz was fun but I had to take it twice since I didn’t realize how many building details I had never noticed. Reply Eric Key, Class of 1977 8 Jan, 2023 A lot of these were in places I had never been. Reply Gilberto Albuquerque, Class of 1990 30 Dec, 2022 Only four out of 12. I guess the 27 years since I left Cornell took its toll in my memory 😄 Reply Leslie 31 Dec, 2022 I didn’t know that some places had been renamed. Reply Oumou, Class of 2023 31 Dec, 2022 The funny thing is I thought I knew this sites. Well I ought to spend more attention 😁 Reply Mark Feldman 31 Dec, 2022 6 out of 12 after 40 years. You’d think an architect would do better! Reply Mary Sander Alden, Class of 1968 8 Jan, 2023 What a clever way to remind us of details often overlooked as well as changes that have occurred over 50 years! I’ll observe more carefully at reunion! (I flunked this time.) Reply Mark Bernard, Class of 1986 31 Dec, 2022 With a score of 3/12… I hope that you’re grading on a curve. Reply George Gifford, Class of 1985 1 Jan, 2023 Loved it…Please arrange for these periodically…Go Big Red!! Reply Randi, Class of 2007 2 Jan, 2023 I was able to get 5 right after 4 years there and nearly 15 away, I’ll take it! Reply Dan Cheung, Class of 1979 2 Jan, 2023 I was really surprised I got 10 out of 12, missed two. One was a total wild guess and the other was for a building that wasn’t there until decades after I left. Reply Derick Adams, Class of 1981 5 Jan, 2023 Did not score well, but the quiz definitely brought back memories Reply Joel Langstein, Class of 2019 5 Jan, 2023 Very hard test! Reply Nancy Freeman, Class of 1983 6 Jan, 2023 All I care about is what the mean score was. 😂 Reply Jeanne Arnold -Schwetje, Class of 1978 14 Jan, 2024 I only got 4/12 but it was such an informative quiz. I got the heads on Olin Libe because senior year, a friend of mine and I used to climb that wall to practice our bouldering skills! Reply Donald Payne, Class of 1983 7 Jan, 2023 4/12. I should have known at least Sage Chapel better — I was in the Glee Club. Reply Jeanne Arnold -Schwetje, Class of 1978 14 Jan, 2024 Me too. I was in Chorus Reply Pat Erickson, Class of 1997 8 Jan, 2023 Thank you for putting this together. Very fun! Reply Dev, Class of 2024 8 Jan, 2023 My 6th year of PhD here and got 6/12 on this quiz… I guess I have to be here for 12 years to get 12/12 😅 Reply Larry Baizer, Class of 1975 8 Jan, 2023 What a fun challenge! I got 4/12 but I think that’s pretty good for class of 1975–some of these buildings didn’t even exist when I was at Cornell. Reply Jeanne Arnold -Schwetje, Class of 1978 14 Jan, 2024 Agree. Reply Cory Byard, Class of 1966 8 Jan, 2023 More important to remember people and experience. I did better than some but wish I’d remembered more during prelims. Thx for the fun test Reply Marilyn Brewer Lhuillier, Class of 1965 8 Jan, 2023 I got 5 out of 12. So much is new to me! 57 years since I was at Cornell! Reply Judy Kotler, Class of 2008 8 Jan, 2023 Yikes! 3/12 pretty shabby Reply Drew, Class of 2001 8 Jan, 2023 Ouch! I thought I’d do better! Reply David Chadwick-Brown, Class of 1961 8 Jan, 2023 Being a native Ithacan should have given me a leg up, but didn’t seem to help, at 7 of 12. Reply Siree, Class of 2001 8 Jan, 2023 7 out of 12, not bad for 23 years blast from the past. Reply William Eichinger, Class of 1970 20 Jan, 2023 Having graduated 53 years ago 5 of 12 I am ok with. Reply Andrew Walsh, Class of 1983 23 Jan, 2023 I dragged the curve down for y’all! But it’s been 40 years, I did not wonder as widely as I should, and I swear some of these items post-date me! Thanks. That was fun. Example: I worked all 4 years in the ORIGINAL Temple of Zeus in Goldwin Smith basement. What’s this Klarman Hall now?! Reply Chuck Buxbaum, Class of 1987 20 Feb, 2023 5/12 Reminds me of my first Chem 207 exam 😉 Reply Karen Allen, Class of 1984 14 Jan, 2024 Good to see my score of 4 wasn’t too far off the norm. Thanks for doing this, details we just take for granted at our beautiful campus! Reply Suzanne Tougas Snedeker, Class of 1978 14 Jan, 2024 Probably the best puzzler I’ve seen about campus landmarks! I got 10/12 but I’m an alum who lives in Ithaca. You should post new images every month, but in fairness, have new and previous names of buildings. These would be good subjects for treasure hunts to do during reunion. Reply Steve Sauter, Class of 1976 14 Jan, 2024 I will look for these at the next reunion IF I can find this posting so as to remember what places and objects were in the quiz! Reply Jeanne Arnold -Schwetje, Class of 1978 14 Jan, 2024 I only got 4/12 but it was such an informative quiz. I got the heads on Olin Libe because senior year, a friend of mine and I used to climb that wall to practice our bouldering skills! Reply Karen Viglione Lauterwasser, Class of 1976 14 Jan, 2024 Between the buildings with new names and the buildings built after I roamed the campus, I didn’t get too many correct answers. It was fun to take a wee photographic tour, though. Reply Cynthia Edmondson, Class of 1964 14 Jan, 2024 Fun quiz. I’m surprised I answered any correctly. My excuse is that I graduated in 1964! Reply Doug Veit 16 Jan, 2024 I’m not joining the fray. Competitiveness dies hard. I’m not reporting my score, nor my graduation year. But the exercise (I refuse to call it a test) was great fun. Reply Leave a Comment Cancel replyOnce your comment is approved, your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name * Class Year Email * Save my name, email, and class year in this browser for the next time I comment. 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