Question: Where is the main Yale campus?
Answer: downtown New Haven

Question: When was "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" approved?
Answer: October 9, 1701

Question: Who voted on "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School"?
Answer: General Court of the Colony of Connecticut

Question: What was the name of the group that started Yale's library?
Answer: The Founders

Question: Why was "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" proposed?
Answer: to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut

Question: Where did "The Founders" go to school?
Answer: Harvard

Question: Where did Elihu Yale grow up?
Answer: Wales

Question: Where was Elihu Yale born?
Answer: Boston

Question: What was Elihu Yale's father's name?
Answer: David

Question: Who suggested the new name of Yale?
Answer: Cotton Mather

Question: How many books were in the 1714 shipment to Yale?
Answer: 500

Question: When was Ezra Stiles president of Yale?
Answer: 1778 to 1795

Question: What course did Ezra Stiles require freshmen to take?
Answer: Hebrew

Question: When did the British threaten to take over the college?
Answer: July 1779

Question: Who saved Yale from the British raid?
Answer: Edmund Fanning

Question: What degree was Edmund Fanning given for his services?
Answer: an honorary degree LL.D

Question: When did William Graham Sumner teach?
Answer: 1872 to 1909

Question: What did William Graham Sumner teach?
Answer: economics and sociology

Question: Why was The Yale Report established?
Answer: the classics would not be abandoned

Question: What were the group of Yale professors and ministers attempting to achieve?
Answer: developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong to resist temptations

Question: What changes were the professors and ministers responding to?
Answer: Victorian culture

Question: What was Nathan Hale famous for?
Answer: Revolutionary War soldier

Question: What profession did Frederic Remington hold?
Answer: artist

Question: What was the name of the protagonist of "Stover at Yale"?
Answer: Frank Stover

Question: What turned into the goal of the student body?
Answer: winning the big game

Question: What were the subjects of Frederic Remington's paintings?
Answer: heroes gloried in combat and tests of strength in the Wild West

Question: In what year was the first debate between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton?
Answer: 1909

Question: When was the first debate between Harvard and Yale?
Answer: 1892

Question: How were debates shown to the college students?
Answer: front pages of college newspapers

Question: What did members of the debate team get for their service?
Answer: the equivalent of athletic letters for their jackets

Question: Why do debates not have a distinct winner?
Answer: scoring is subjective

Question: Who attempted to enact measures of football reform?
Answer: the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

Question: What did the rebellion to the new football measures start?
Answer: Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Question: Who was president of Yale during the rebellion?
Answer: Arthur Hadley

Question: Who represented Harvard during the rule changing debates?
Answer: A. Lawrence Lowell

Question: Who represented Princeton during the rule changing discussions?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: When was the Yale School of Medicine established?
Answer: 1810

Question: When was Yale Divinity School established?
Answer: 1822

Question: When was Yale Law School created?
Answer: 1843

Question: When was Yale Graduate Schools and Arts and Sciences established?
Answer: (1847

Question: When was the Sheffield Scientific School created?
Answer: 1847

Question: When was Noah Porter president of Yale?
Answer: 1871 to 1886

Question: What idea did Noah Porter strike down?
Answer: new research university

Question: What did many historians think of Noah Porter?
Answer: simple-minded reactionary, uncritically committed to tradition

Question: What was Porter's reason for striking down the research university?
Answer: an eager embrace of its ideals would corrupt undergraduate education

Question: What caused disagreement about Yale's new position?
Answer: Expansion

Question: How much did  philanthropic foundations donate between 1925 and 1940?
Answer: about $7 million

Question: What was the $7 million used for?
Answer: behavioral science research

Question: What animals sexual behavior did Yerkes study?
Answer: chimpanzee

Question: Who were the behavioral scientists in charge of the research?
Answer: President James R. Angell and psychobiologist Robert M. Yerkes

Question: What was the goal of the behavioral research?
Answer: improve mankind

Question: Which group of researchers provided a standard research school environment?
Answer: Harrison's group

Question: Which groups of researchers provided unorthodox structure for a research group?
Answer: Pickford's and Hutchinson's

Question: What was Pickford's group lacking to make it more like other research schools?
Answer: departmental or institutional position or power

Question: What information did Hutchinson's model provide?
Answer: new models for research groups are needed

Question: What did Hutchinson's group research?
Answer: diverse areas of ecology

Question: Who was dean of Yale Medical School from 1920 to 1935?
Answer: Milton Winternitz

Question: What was the driving force behind Milton Winternitz's research?
Answer: social medicine

Question: What teaching style did Milton Winternitz develop?
Answer: Yale System

Question: What is the Yale System?
Answer: few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system

Question: What programs did Milton Winternitz create?
Answer: graduate-level Yale School of Nursing and the Psychiatry Department

Question: Who was the first professor for the American studies program?
Answer: Norman Holmes Pearson

Question: Where did Norman Holmes Pearson work before Yale?
Answer: Office of Strategic Studies in London

Question: What did the American studies program hope to instruct?
Answer: fundamentals of American civilization

Question: Who contributed to the American studies programs at Yale and University of Wyoming?
Answer: William Robertson Coe

Question: Why did Coe donate to American studies programs?
Answer: to celebrate the 'values' of the Western United States

Question: What sister school of Yale's considered merger in 1966?
Answer: Vassar College

Question: Who was the first undergraduate woman at Yale?
Answer: Amy Solomon

Question: What society did Amy Solomon enroll in at Yale?
Answer: St. Anthony Hall

Question: What year did the first undergraduate class including women graduate from Yale?
Answer: 1973

Question: Where did undergraduate women live during the first few years of women being allowed to attend Yale?
Answer: Vanderbilt Hall

Question: What led to Yale's Grievance Board and the Yale Women's Center?
Answer: Alexander v. Yale

Question: When was a Title IX complaint filed against Yale?
Answer: March 2011

Question: What was the name of the magazine of which multiple editors were involved in the Title IX complaint?
Answer: Broad Recognition

Question: What was the complaint of the editors of Broad Recognition?
Answer: the university had a hostile sexual climate

Question: What did Yale do about the Title IX complaint?
Answer: formed a Title IX steering committee to address complaints of sexual misconduct

Question: Why do New Haven city officials dislike Yale?
Answer: exemption from local property taxes

Question: Which Yale president assisted with New Haven's revitalization efforts?
Answer: President Levin

Question: What has been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relationship on Yale?
Answer: economic power of the university increased dramatically with its financial success

Question: What has been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relation on New Haven?
Answer: decline in the local economy