Eek! How Much Do You Know About Creepy-Crawly Big Red History?

Take our spook-tacular Cornell Halloween trivia quiz!

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM

Test your knowledge of eerie Cornell trivia! How many of these 10 questions can you answer?

1) What year did a pumpkin appear atop McGraw Tower?

1989

1997

2009

2016

2) How many former Cornell presidents are buried in the Sage Chapel crypt?

0

1

3

7

3) What spooky movie prop was briefly on display in Kroch Library in 2018?

The Wicked Witch’s crystal ball from “The Wizard of Oz”

The sorting hat from “Harry Potter”

Freddy Krueger’s glove from “A Nightmare on Elm Street”

Michael Myers’s mask from “Halloween”

4) What former Collegetown spot was named for a 19th-century murderer?

Oliver’s

Dunbar’s

Rulloff’s

Johnny’s

5) What Cornellian actor appeared in the 1988 horror film “Child’s Play” as the character who first purchases the evil “Chucky” doll?

Catherine Hicks, MFA ’74

Jimmy Smits, MFA ’82

Jane Lynch, MFA ’84

Christopher Reeve ’74

6) What bygone campus landmark is memorialized with a pair of tombstone-like markers?

Ezra Cornell’s farmhouse

Boardman Hall

The Ostrander Elms

The old Armory

7) What on-campus murder mystery did “History of Cornell” author Morris Bishop 1913, PhD ’26, write under a pen name?

“A Hill to Die On”

“The Widening Stain”

“Diploma: Deadly”

“Dial ‘M’ for Matriculate”

8) What human organs are on display in Uris Hall?

Hearts

Kidneys

Brains

Eyes

9) What spooky campus “decoration” first appeared on Halloween 1936?

Orange pumpkin faces on the McGraw Tower clocks

A giant spiderweb between Olin and Uris libraries

Bats in the Sage Chapel choir loft

Painted footsteps between the Arts Quad statues

10) What is the subject of a scholarly collection in the University Library?

Ghost stories

Witchcraft

Mummification

Vampire fiction

Time’s up

Published October 20, 2022

Comments

1. 

   J. Rainey Hancock

   27 Oct, 2023

   Lots of fun.

   Reply