Williamsiana

1. Williams College of course can't have regular graffiti on the inside of Griffin's dome. What language is it in?

2. The architect of the war memorial on top of Mt Greylock intended his creation for another site. Where?

3. What building stands on the site of Fort Massachusetts?

4. Why does the Municipal Building make an odd police station?

5. Why can you find the remains of trenches and other field fortifications in the woods above Eph's Pond?

6. Who sucks, anyway? Name all of the different spelllings.

7. Explain Jessup's color.

8. What's under Currier Ballroom?

9. It's January 10th. It's dark. It's freezing cold. You're all out. You're too aghast to ask anyone you know (they all think you're a virgin anyway). The prof for your over-over-over-extended paper from the fall semester is running an all night nearly-naked penguin Frisbee game on the science quad. One of us running the Trivia contest tonight is hiding near one of the Baxter doors, snatching passers-by as extras for Action Trivia. Your ex-xxxfriend (you dumped him/her last weekend) lives in Garfield but works at the ice rink. Naming all nameable buildings and landmarks that you have to pass - to keep yourself awake and thawed - what's the fastest way for you to get from Mission's dining hall to the health center to raid the condom bin [is it still there?], and back, without encountering either your prof or your ex-, and without getting forced into the random-grab Action Trivia?

10. You live on the 4th floor of Sage A. Your best friend lives on the 1st floor of Sage F. How many different ways can you get there?

11. Which fraternity urged Williams College to rethink the ban on fraternal organizations?

12. Hookups were a lot harder way back when. When did the college finally go co-ed?

13. What is that shack in the middle of the rotary?

14. What did students and "townies" put up next to the shack mentioned in the question above in 1953?

15. What are all of the words to "The Mountains," not just the Chorus. And who wrote it?

16. What, rather spectacularly, was found to keep perfect time, even after being abused from its fall from Thompson Chapel's tower?

17. Before Col. Williams, what was the town in the middle of nowhere, now Williamstown, called?

18. According to former President Garfield, what is the ideal education?

19. Why isn't there a building named after Zephaniah Swift Moore?

20. What four portraits might you find in the faculty lounge in Stetson?

21. What does it say on Michael Davitt Bell's tombstone?

22. Where did the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, store many of its priceless works of ancient art during World War II?

Name that Acronym!

23. CASO

24. BGTLU

25. QSU

26. WUFO

27. WARP

28. JA

29. SSJ

30. WFL

31. WCF

32. WSP

33. SELFREG

34. OIT

35. GRC

36. ACT

37. WFA

38. BAA

39. WCMA

40. ACE

41. WCFM

42. MCC

43. WRFC

44. JRC

45. OCC

46. KAOS

47. MASS MoCA