St. Mark's Trivia

OK, yellow class. Here's your chance to earn 3 bonus points for all of your classmates. If you correctly answer (as a class) at least 20 of these trivia questions, you will all earn 3 extra credit points.

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1. What bishop began the building of St. Mark's?

2. Why did Bishop Thomas Mardaga choose St. Mark as our school's patron saint?

3. Name at least six current teachers whom Mr. Fiorelli taught at St. Mark's.

4. Name the only two faculty and staff members who have been here since Day 1.

5. What St. Mark club has won the Columbia University Award for prose and poetry?

6. Name at least four married couples who teach/work at St. Mark's.

7. What are the first four lines of the alma mater?

8. Johnny Neel helped to co-write the alma mater. What famous rock band did he later play with?

9. Who was the first principal of St. Mark's?

10. Who is the library named after?

11. Since St. Mark's was not completed when classes began, at what school did students first attend classes?

12. What alumni teacher scored the first goal in the history of St. Mark's soccer?

13. Who was the first baseball coach at St. Mark's? (He's still working here)

14. Name the three assistant principals at St. Mark's.

15. Name at least one St. Mark grad who played pro football.

16. Name at least one St. Mark grad who played on Broadway.

17. Name at least one St. Mark grad who played pro baseball.

18. What were the three final choices for the St. Mark's mascot?

19. Name at least one faculty/staff member who graduated from the Class of 73, the first graduating class?

20. What does the Latin phrase, "alma mater," mean?

21. What St. Mark's teacher is training for the next Olympic Games?

22. What St. Mark's grad is the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Delaware?

23. What St. Mark's teacher was State Basketball Player of the Year twice?

24. Name at least three St. Mark's teachers who are Sallies, graduates.

25. What club at St. Mark's works with the Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities?

26. The date December 18, 2007, marks the anniversary of what important St. Mark's event?