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Class of 1982: Test Your Trivia Savvy

Thanks to the almost 40 of you who entered the contest. Below are the MUCH-AWAITED answers and the three winners (clearly there were those who paid attention in AND outside of class hee hee). If you got 8-12 of the answers right, consider yourself PENN-dified, (kind of my version of dignified) you actually DID go to Penn although age has started to take affect......if you got 13-15 answers right, are all you are QUAKERed up, but sorry no winners trophy for you!........if you got between 15.5 - 19 questions right you are the PENNUltimate classmate, clever, attentive and still with it after all these years! and if you had more than THAT right (there were 28 points total), you REMEMBER you are true RED AND BLUE and you are listed below!

#3 Larry Garfield
#2 Mark Schulberg
#1 (drum roll please....) Jesse Gordon

Your set of ginzu knives and lovely Penn parting gifts are on the way to your door. Okay, they don't make ginzu knives anymore, do they? But you will get some Penn 'stuff' as your reward I promise. Thank you ALL for participation whether you submitted your form or glanced at the quiz for nostalgia sake - and don't forget to start thinking of questions to stump our classmates next time!

PS How can you NOT remember BLOOMERS as an answer!!!! It was and is the first all-female collegiate comedy group in the nation!!!!!! Hint, hint, hint.....I helped write the questions!!!!!! -From the Trivia Tricksters lead by David Gibboni

Penn "THEN"
1.	During our four years at Penn, the men's football team won how many games...? a. 3 b. 4 c. 5
2.	A crime phenomenon that swept across campus during our time was called...? a. Wolfpacks b. Wolfgangs c. Mozarts
3.	The band for spring Fling '79 was supposed to have been ...? a. The Birds b. Muddy Waters c. Average White Band
4.	The College Hall sit-in held in1980 protested...? a. Lunch choices at Stouffer b. Cutting sports funding c. Changing The Red and the Blue to include Cornell and Dartmouth in the lyrics
5.	Besides the 5 man band, "The Limit" featuring classmate Jay Edelman, which of the following was NOT a band on campus...? a. The Autistics b. The Spastics c. The Wonder Drugs
6.	During our freshman year, a cat was parachuted from the rooftop lounge of High Rise East (the cat survived). The daring experiment was successful because the parachute was made from...? a. Meat Loaf t-shirts b. A Hefty bag c. "Disco Sucks" desk blotters
7.	What tradition was popular at Palestra baskeball games? a. Throwing streamers onto the court at the first Penn basket b. Yelling "Sit down, Pete" to Princeton coach Pete Carrill Seeing the Quaker drop his drawers in front of visiting teams d. A and B e. A and C f. B and C g. all of the above
8.	Our commencement ceremony was held at...? a. Franklin Field b. Convention Hall c. Smoke's
9.	Our Class's commencement speaker was...? a. Martin Scorcese, filmmaker b. Anna Quindlen, columnist c. Sol Linowitz, diplomat d. Gary Trudeau, cartoonist
10.	Moish Glukovsky... a. Was a transfer student from a distant land b. Liked Jarlsberg on Stoned Wheat Thins c. Played point guard for the Quakers
11.	Match the professors with their subjects: a. Digby Baltzell b. Nick Constan c. Alexander Riasanovsky d. Drew Faust e. Henry Gleitman f. Psychology g. Russian History h. Business Law i. Sociology j. American Studies
12.	Match the restaurants and their locations: a. Pagano's b. Salad Alley c. Koch's d. 43rd and Locust e. 39th and Chestnut f. 40th and Locust
13.	What was the cost of a Fair Isle Sweater in 1978...? a. An arm and a leg b. About $50 c. A one-month payment on Muffy's Beemer
14.	The transit system in Philadelphia is known as...? a. SEPTA b. PENNTA c. SANTA MARIA
And now a few tough questions for the REAL trivia bragging rights:
15.	The tuition range in our four years at Penn went from (1978 to 1982)...? a. 6,675 to 10,350 b. 8,700 to 12,900 c. 4,450 to 6,900
16.	Of 7,551 applicants to the Class of '82, what percentage or how many were accepted for admission? (like horseshoes, close counts!)
17.	What was the title of the controversial DP editorial on President Reagan's assasination that prompted a visit from the Feds?
18.	Name the four Spring Fling bands that played during our years at Penn: McGuinn, Clark and Hillman; Muddy Waters; Hall and Oates; B-52s
19a.	Who did Penn lose to in the 1979 Final Four?
19b.	And for the ultimate Quaker fan, what was the score?
20.	What all-female comedy troupe was founded our freshman year?
Did okay on long term memory questions? Well, now here are a few chances to take a gander at what it's like at... Penn "NOW"
1.	The average SAT score for the entering class of 2006 was...? a. 1210 b. 1410 c. 1510
2.	The estimated cost of a four-year education at Penn today is...? a. $160,000 b. $145,000 c. $136,000
3.	What percentage of applicants in the Class of 2006 were accepted for admission...? a. 22% b. 33% c. 54%
4.	What fraction of Penn students fund at least part of their education with financial aid from Penn...? a. 1/3 b. 1/2 c. 2/3
5.	The last Olympic medal won by a Penn athlete was in...? a. 2000 b. 1936 c. never
6.	In the past twenty years how many Penn professors have won a Nobel Prize...? a. 15 b. 5 c. 1
7.	The most recent Penn Nobel laureate was...? a. Alan MacDiarmid, chemistry b. Lawrence Klein, economics c. Robert Schrieffer, physics
8.	In the most recent annual US News & World Report rankings of US colleges and universities, Penn ranked...? a. 3 b. 6 c. 5

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