Who Knew WashU?

Question: How many times has the Olympic flame been near Washington University?

Question: Which event took place during the 1904 Olympic Games — for which the university and Francis Field served as a major venue — that is no longer an Olympic sport?

Question: How many pieces by Pablo Picasso does the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum have in its collection?

Question: Why are the archives of the groundbreaking civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize” housed in University Libraries?

This month marks the 14th anniversary of which landmark achievement for alumnus and adventurer Steve Fossett?

Question: Louis Beaumont, after whom Washington University’s Beaumont Pavilion is named, owned a department store that is now part of which major company?

Question: Which university building is named after a St. Louis heiress whose daughter married Robert Brookings?

Question: As the world mourns the death of Muhammad Ali, we ask: When did Ali give an address in Graham Chapel?

Question: Who designed Washington University’s official seal, which is part of the shield that adorns each graduate’s robe at Commencement?

Question: Which campus building includes a public display of fossils from creatures that lived long ago, including a 12-foot crocodile?