Theta Trivia
 

I thought this may be a fun thread to start since I have enjoyed reading the NPC trivia thread in the Greek Life forum.

Please make sure that what you post is trivia that can be found or be public knowledge and not ritual only knowledge (i.e. Anything that is now found on the passworded sections of the Theta HQ site is not appropriate to post here or on any other public forum!


So I'll start!

Q: What two founding members of Kappa Alpha Theta were granted diplomas from the Philomathean Literary Society in 1871?

A: Bettie Locke and Alice Allen

Thanks for starting this thread! This could be fun! Here's my trivia.

Q: Joan Ganz Cooney (Beta Delta) is an American business woman and televsion producer. She is a founder of the Children's Television Workshop and a creator of what popular children's televison show?

A: Sesame Street! :)

Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Alpha_Theta

I love trivia! I do have a question though, do we want to put the answer in our post? Or should we ask the question and let the next person answer, like the NPC post in the Greek Life thread?

Yes... ask the question and let someone else answer!

Now my turn....

We all know the first 4 members of Theta, burned into our brains as pledges!
But WHO was the FIFTH??

mary Stevenson!

I'm taking that book that I sent you back!! ;)

You are correct... and she was only sixteen years old! You ask next...

HAHA!!!I love that book! I also recently finished We Who Wear Kites Volume 1 and splurged with my paycheck to get We Who Wear Kites Volume 2. I've also recently purchased and read Bound by a Mighty Vow (if any of you ladies have not read this book I highly recommend it!!!)

Q. Everyone knows our founder Hannah Fitch Shaw as "Hannah." What other name is she also known as (or was more popularly known as among our founders)?

Jennie!

next question:

Q. Name the Theta who was the architect of the famed Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. (She was also the first woman to earn a certificate in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.) Bonus points: what was her Theta chapter?

You are a stinker!! Asking a question that can't be looked up in the index! But I found it!

Julia Morgan, Omega (California)

Somebody else ask the next question...

Yes! her full name is Hannah Virginia Fitch Shaw. :)

Q. Where was our first Theta Convention located?

Does anyone know? It is not a hard question if you think about the state where our first three chapters are..... :)

Well, I was going to let someone else have a shot at this one, but maybe I better take it!

Nov 18, 1872, Bloomington, Indiana :) Two chapters in attendance.

Maybe we should have a few questions that you don't need We Who Wear Kites to answer!

OK, I'm taking the next question. Happens to be one of my pet peeves.... I hope EVERYONE knows this one!!

Was Betty Crocker a Theta?

Since I'm leaving for a week to TN, I'll go ahead and take this one as a last hoorah before I go. :)

"Betty Crocker" as a person did not exist. However, our sister Marjorie Child Husted used her voice as the voice of Betty Crocker.

Additional information from HQ website:
Marjorie Child Husted
Initiated 1909
Marjorie Husted became the 1st radio voice for General Mills’ Betty Crocker the personification of the corporation’s home economics department and she filled that role for twenty years (1927-1947). Beginning in 1926 Child created the department and ultimately designated director of General Mills’ Home Service Program.

Q: What Theta chapter started the publishing of our magazine in 1885? (I got this one this morning from one of those "Did you Know" features on the website hehe. I love those!)

THANK YOU, Mary! I have seen on a few chapter websites that "Betty Crocker was a Theta" and it drives me NUTS!

The Kappa Chapter at Kansas University.

I'm struggling to think of a good question, so this is what I've got for now:

On what campus was/is the Theta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta located?

Theta chapter was at Simpson College but it is no longer an active chapter.

This was a good question I had to pull out an old copy of the roster list to find it! :)


Q: Where was HQ located prior to Indianapolis, IN?

The answer is Evanston, IL. I got that from the website. Prior to that (and I didnt know until recently) we were based in Chicago if my memory serves.

So here is a multiple choice question:

Where is Theta colonizing a chapter this fall?

A. John Carroll University

B. Occidental College

C. Quinnipiac University

D. Southern Mississippi

Quinnipiac


What Theta President was also Chair of UNICEF?


P.S. Has anyone ever found Kite Flight? I've been able to track down We Who Wear Kites, but that's it.

Hmm. I dont think I even know the answer to that one! :)

About Kite Flight---I havent been able to find it either. Though I try to do searches for it whenever I can on several websites hoping a copy of it will show up somewhere. It's the only one that I dont have in my "Theta Library."

Okay, here's a hint. She is Canadian and was initiated in 1919.

Adelaide MacDonald Sinclair. I went through almost the entire list of Notable Thetas to get to her. It was nice to see that they've updated it to include the recently elected Thetas!

My question: In addition to Kappa Alpha Theta, Indianapolis is home to the international headquarters of six other NPC members. Name them.

Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Xi Delta
Sigma Kappa
Alpha Chi Omega
Sigma Delta Tau
Zeta Tau Alpha

What are two other names by which CASA is known?

oops-answered the wrong question.

CASA= Court Appointed Special Advocates
Not sure about name #2 tho...

Does this depend on region? ie. the San Diego CASA chapter is called Voices for Children (VFC).

Well, since the question's been up for awhile...here's the answer.
I got this off the HQ website:

Since 1989, the focus of Kappa Alpha Theta's philanthropic work has been CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates program (also known around the country as Guardian Ad Litem and Pro Kids).

New question: Where was the Grand Convention last year?

KATwoman

Grand convention was in San Antonio, TX.


What is the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation logo? (or what is it a picture of)

A pansy or if you see it in color, a gold pansy.

Ok, my turn, what was the first Theta chapter in California? Looking for Greek letters and college name.

I think it was Phi Chapter at Pacific.


Question: What fraternity was Bette Locke Hamilton's father a member of?

FIJI or Phi Gamma Delta. I believe her older brother was also a FIJI.

Actually, the first California chapter is Omicron/Univ of Southern California. I love their link with Alpha chapter. Here is the factoid about USC: In 1887, Kappa Alpha Theta’s banner was raised at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles by Jennie Allen, Alpha's sixth initiate, who taught English at USC. In 1887, as the wife of USC’s president, Jennie Allen Bovard helped install Omicron Chapter, the first chapter west of the Rockies. Economic downturn forced the chapter to close in 1895, but the chapter returned to USC in 1917.

But you were VERY close with Phi/Univ of the Pacific. Their factoid: Phi Chapter was formed in 1889 at University of the Pacific in San Jose, California. In 1892 the charter was transferred to Stanford University. Phi remained at Stanford until 1944, when women's fraternities were abolished on that campus. In 1959, Phi was reestablished at University of the Pacific, by then located in Stockton, California.
Phi's 'offspring' chapter @ Stanford is explained thusly: In 1892, Kappa Alpha Theta was the first women's fraternity at Stanford University when Phi’s charter transferred to Palo Alto from the University of the Pacific. In 1944, Stanford banished all women's groups. When the ban was lifted, Theta returned. As a University of the Pacific chapter reclaimed the Phi name, the 1978 Stanford chapter became Phi deuteron, ‘Phi the second’.

Actually her father was Beta Theta Pi. You are correct about her brother being a FIJI though :)

Shoot! I knew there was FIJI in the family but thought it was both Dad & Bro. Do I get half credit? Haha! ;)

It seems to just be ThetaPrincess24 and me on here.

Come on ladies...put on your Alex Trebek mask and throw out some Theta Trivia!

Disney
 

My turn for trivia!

We know Diane & Sharon Disney were both Thetas. Which song from Mary Poppins was written for them?

Let's Go Fly a Kite is the song I believe you're referring to although there seems to be dispute as to the inspiration for the song. Look here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_Fly_a_Kite

Let's Go Fly a Kite
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
LYRICS:
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite
Let's go fly a kite!

This thread could use a bump, because I love trivia.:)

In what state was the first active alumnae group founded in 1889? Bonus points if you can name the city...

I'm going out on a limb here........Kansas?

Good job! Topeka.

Well it's just a few of us trivia buffs, but I'll keep it going with some 'modern' trivia.

When did the first Theta website go live?