2016 Zeta Trivia Pursuit Q & A
Test your historical knowledge by answering the questions below. Click the (+) to expand each trivia.
Trivia Week 4
- Under which Grand Basileus were State Directors first appointed?
Answer: Nellie B. Rogers; 9th Grand Basileus - How many Boule’s over the years have been held in the South Central Region?
Answer: One —1980 the Boule was held in Memphis, Tennessee - Name the Past Grand Basileus who passed on while serving her term of office and the year?
Answer: Violette N. Anderson; 8th Grand Basileus and she passed in 1937 - Under who’s administration were all past Grand Basilei awarded Life Membership and in what year?
Answer: Lullelia Walker Harrison; 12th Grand Basileus and the year was 1945 at the Boule in St. Louis, MO - Under who’s administration was the Torchbearers of a Legacy published?
Answer: Dr. Barbara West Carpenter; 21st International Grand Basileus
Trivia Week 3
- Which Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated Past International Grand Basileus later married a Phi Beta Sigma National President?
Answer:
Ruth Tappe Scruggs, 6th Grand Basileus; who was married to Brother Ivorite Scruggs - Name the four adopted programs initiated in 1992?
Answer:- Challenger Kids Program
- Give yourself the Gift of Health
- Zeta Mentors
- The Male Network
- When was the Stork’s Nest adopted as the National Project of the sorority?
Answer: The “Stork’s Nest” national project was adopted at the 1972 Boule. - In which past Grand Basileus administration did we become recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)7 organization and the date?
Answer:
The Sorority was granted 501©7 status as of January 19, 1959 under the administration of 14th Past International Grand Basileus, Dr. Deborah C. Partridge Wolfe. - Which Grand Basileus only served for three months in office?
Answer:
Edith A. Lyons; 10th Grand Basileus
Trivia Week 2
- Zeta was the first African- American Sorority in several areas – name 5?
Answer:
The first Greek-letter sorority organized in Africa in the year 1948. Delta Iota Zeta Chapter and Upsilon Beta Chapter were organized in Monrovia, Liberia.- Established the first National Executive Office of a black sorority in 1948.
- Became the first to establish national auxiliaries in 1948.
- First and only National Panhellenic Council (NPHC) sorority to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
- First black Greek-letter organization to host a national convention south of the Mason-Dixon Line in Houston, TX in 1937.
- First sorority to organize in Texas on a college campus. Theta Chapter was established in 1923 at Wiley College in Marshall, TX.
- First sorority to charter in Dubai – May 2014
- First sorority to charter an Amicae auxiliary in Belgium – March 2014.
- First sorority to charter a chapter in Trinidad and Tobago – June 2016.
- When was the term Grand Basileus first used?
Answer: The National Basileus became known as the Grand Basileus in 1926 and the International Grand in 1948 upon the chartering in Africa. - What was the date of the first annual meeting for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and what was the annual meeting called?
Answer: The date of the first annual meeting for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was December 26-28, 1920 and the annual meeting was called “Conclave” - At which Boule were the Five Founders awarded Life Membership into Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated and where was it held?
Answer:
All Five Founders were granted Life Membership at the 25th Anniversary Boule in 1945 held in St. Louis, MO - Name 6 of the Past International Grand Basilei who are legacies?
Answer:- Nellie Rogers; 9th Grand Basileus
- Lullelia Harrison; 12th Grand Basileus
- Isabel Herson; 16th International Grand Basileus
- Dr. Jylla Moore Tearte (formerly Foster); 20th International Grand Basileus
- Dr. Barbara West Carpenter; 21st International Grand Basileus
- Barbara C. Moore; 22nd International Grand Basileus
- Sheryl P. Underwood; 23rd International Grand Basileus
Trivia Week 1
- Which affiliate organizations of the National Pan-Hellenic Council were NOT founded at Howard University in Washington DC and where were they founded?
Answer:- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated | Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated | Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
- Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated | Morgan State College, Baltimore MD
- Who wrote the lyrics to our National Hymn?
Answer: Anita Turpeau - What other historical event occurred on the day Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded?
Answer: Prohibition (the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920) - Who were the Incorporators of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated?
Answer: Myrtle L. Tyler, Gladys Warrington, Joanna R. Houston, Josephine F. Johnson - Name each Founder (including their middle, maiden and married names) and their college majors?
Answer:- Arizona Leedonia Cleaver Stemons – Social Work
- Pearl Anna Neal – Music
- Viola Tyler Goings – Education
- Myrtle Lavenia Tyler Faithful – Education
- Fannie Pettie Watts – Education
