Touchdown bellies up to the bar in the Big Red Tap & Grill. (Cornell University) Quizzes & Puzzles March / April ’23 Trivia Roundup Did you miss any of the recent weekly trivia on our homepage? Here’s your chance to catch up with 10 questions! What comedy star has served as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large? Steve Martin Bill Murray John Cleese Stephen Fry The ILR school includes buildings, completed in 1913, that were once home to what? College of Agriculture College of Home Economics College of Veterinary Medicine Nothing; ILR is the original occupant Which variety of apple was NOT developed at Cornell? Gala Macoun Empire Jonagold What classic book was the basis for an operatic cantata that had its world premiere in 2005? “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, MA ’55 “The Good Earth” by Pearl Buck, MA ’25 “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon ’59 “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr., PhD 1896 & E.B. White 1921 The Hot Truck was founded by the son of the proprietor of what legendary Collegetown eatery/watering hole? Royal Palm Tavern Zinck’s Johnny’s Big Red Grill The Nines What year did the Ithaca Commons open as a pedestrian mall? 1969 1975 1980 1984 As a child actor in his first and only film, Peter Ostrum, DVM ’84, starred in what? “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” “The Bad News Bears” “The Love Bug” What item of apparel, worn by Ezra Cornell on his wedding day in 1831, did astronaut G. David Low ’80 carry into space on the shuttle ‘Columbia’ in 1989? Socks Cravat Gloves Vest What Ancient Greek hero is immortalized in a statue, made of chrome car bumpers, located outside the Statler Hotel? Achilles Hercules Odysseus Perseus Weill Cornell Medicine’s teaching hospital traces its roots to a charter, still held in its archives, that was signed by what leader? General George Washington NY Governor Theodore Roosevelt King George III of England President John Adams Time’s up Top: Touchdown bellies up to the bar at the Cornell Club in NYC. (Cornell University) Published May 2, 2023 Leave a Comment Cancel replyOnce your comment is approved, your email address will not be published.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. Δ Other stories You may like Alumni Remembering the First Black Woman to Graduate from Cornell Students Course Explores Nabokov as Writer and Butterfly Aficionado Quizzes & Puzzles Cornellian Crossword: ‘School Spirit’