Question: What is the largest African collection in the world that is part of the Northwesern library system?
Answer: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies

Question: When was Northwestern elected to the Association of American Universities?
Answer: 1917

Question: Which of Northwestern's schools are among the most academically productive in the nation?
Answer: management, engineering, and communication

Question: In 2014, how much research funding did Northwestern receive?
Answer: $550 million

Question: Who discovered the drug that was ultimately marketed as Lyrica?
Answer: chemistry professor Richard Silverman

Question: How many companies were started through Northwestern's Innovations and New Ventures Office?
Answer: 12

Question: Where is the home of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science?
Answer: Northwestern

Question: Where is the home of the International Institute for Nanotechnology?
Answer: Northwestern

Question: Where is the home of the Materials Research Center?
Answer: Northwestern

Question: Where is the home for the Institute for Policy Research?
Answer: Northwestern

Question: Where is the home of the Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies?
Answer: Northwestern

Question: How much money has the traditional Northwestern Dance Marathon raised for children's charities?
Answer: more than 13 million dollars

Question: What do students do during the traditional Primal Scream event held before finals week every quarter?
Answer: scream

Question: What is the popular name for Northwestern's traditional Armadillo Day?
Answer: Dillo Day

Question: When is Armadillo Day held every year?
Answer: on the weekend after Memorial Day

Question: What name is freshman orientation known as?
Answer: Wildcat Welcome

Question: What do students traditionally do at the beginning of each football game kickoff?
Answer: jingle keys

Question: What football game tradition has since been discontinued?
Answer: students would throw marshmallows during games

Question: What color does the Clock Tower glow after a winning football game?
Answer: purple

Question: What noise do students make when the opposing team has control of the football?
Answer: growl

Question: How long does the Clock Tower remain purple after a winning game?
Answer: until a loss or until the end of the sports season

Question: What are the two most notable productions each year at Northwestern?
Answer: the Waa-Mu show, and the Dolphin show

Question: Who is the Waa-Muu show primarily written and produced by?
Answer: students

Question: What does StuCo stand for?
Answer: Student Theatre Coalition

Question: How many student theatre companies does StuCo organize?
Answer: nine

Question: Which theater company was founded by several Northwestern alumni in 1988?
Answer: Chicago's Lookingglass

Question: What 30 hour event raised more than a million dollars for charity in 2011?
Answer: Dance Marathon

Question: What is the name of the Halloween celebration to which over 800 local children are invited?
Answer: Project Pumpkin

Question: What is the name of the Northwestern program for students interested in community service?
Answer: Freshman Urban Program

Question: What is the name of the university's group service-learning expedition in Asia, Africa or Latin America?
Answer: Global Engagement Summer Institute

Question: What does NCDC stand for?
Answer: Northwestern Community Development Corps

Question: What percentage of undergraduates were affiliated with a fraternity or sorority in Winter 2013?
Answer: 39%

Question: How many fraternities does Northwestern recognize?
Answer: 21

Question: How many sororities does Northwestern recognize?
Answer: 18

Question: What is the name of the Residential College that houses students with an interest in science and engineering?
Answer: Slivka

Question: Which dorms are commonly referred to as Plex?
Answer: Foster-Walker complex

Question: What is the name of Northwestern's main student newspaper?
Answer: The Daily Northwestern

Question: Who is The Daily Northwestern entirely directed by?
Answer: undergraduates

Question: What is the name of Northwestern's undergraduate yearbook?
Answer: Syllabus

Question: Who owns The Daily Northwestern?
Answer: the Students Publishing Company

Question: What undergraduate satirical magazine was founded in 2009?
Answer: Northwestern Flipside

Question: What is the name of the scholarly legal publication at Northwestern School of Law?
Answer: The Northwestern University Law Review

Question: What type of journal does the Law Review strive to publish?
Answer: a journal of broad legal scholarship

Question: How many issues does the Law Review publish each year?
Answer: four

Question: Who publishes the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property?
Answer: an independent student organization at Northwestern University School of Law

Question: Who makes the editorial decisions for The Northwestern University Law Review?
Answer: Student editors

Question: What journal was founded in 2008 that features articles by professors and law students?
Answer: The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review

Question: Who funds The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review?
Answer: Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Office of the Provost

Question: How often is The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review published?
Answer: annually

Question: Who publishes The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review?
Answer: an editorial board of Northwestern University undergraduates

Question: What is the name Northwestern's humor website formed in 2011?
Answer: Sherman Ave

Question: What do many of the writers staffed by Sherman Ave write under?
Answer: pseudonyms

Question: Which website publishes the well known "Freshman Guide"?
Answer: Sherman Ave

Question: What is the publication that is dedicated to the analysis of current events and public policy?
Answer: Politics & Policy

Question: How many college campuses does Politics & Policy reach worldwide?
Answer: 250

Question: Who completely runs Politics and Policy?
Answer: undergraduates

Question: Who partially funds Politics and Policy?
Answer: the Buffett Center

Question: How often is Politics & Policy published?
Answer: several times a week

Question: How many men's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: 8

Question: How many women's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: 11

Question: How many consecutive NCAA championships did the women's larcrosse team win between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: five

Question: Who recognized the men's basketball team as the 1931 National Champion?
Answer: Helms Athletic Foundation

Question: How many of Northwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances?
Answer: 12

Question: Where do Northwestern's basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams play?
Answer: Welsh-Ryan Arena

Question: What is the nickname given to Northwestern's athletic teams?
Answer: Wildcats

Question: What was the official nickname of Northwestern's athletic teams prior to 1924?
Answer: The Purple

Question: What was the unofficial nickname of the Northwestern athletic teams prior to 1924?
Answer: The Fighting Methodists

Question: What name did the student body unsuccessfully try to rename the Wildcats in 1972?
Answer: Purple Haze

Question: Who is the mascot of Northwestern Athletics?
Answer: Willie the Wildcat

Question: What was the first mascot of Northwestern Athletics?
Answer: a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo

Question: What was the name of Northwestern Athletics's bear cub mascot?
Answer: Furpaw

Question: Who did the athletic team blame for it's first losing season?
Answer: Furpaw

Question: What did the athletic team do with Furpaw after they lost the first season?
Answer: banished him from campus forever