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1. What was the first query debated by the Concord Society?*

Are ladies or wine most deleterious to students?
Should slavery be abolished?
What is best: an education or a fortune?

2. In 1838 a schism developed, mainly in the Di, which produced a short-lived third Society, the Delphians. Which of the following is one of the greivances cited as a cause of the split?*

Strictness of University rules requiring morning prayers and compulsory chapel attendance
Abundance of fines levied by the leadership of both the Di and Phi
Strict rules prohibiting the consumption of alcohol by students of the University

3. Which former member of the Phi was Mao Tse Tung's personal physician?*

John Branch
George Hatem
Li Zhisui

4. What sport did Marian Igo, first female President of the Phi (1940), play during her time at UNC?*

Tennis
Basketball
Fencing

5. In 1818, the Phi Society voted to acquire its first portrait. This was the first portrait acquired by either society (The Di began collecting in 1826). Who was the subject of the portrait?*

Johnston Blakely
Joseph Caldwell
Benjamin Franklin

6. Which of the following was not a fineable offense during a meeting for either Society?*

Not wearing your stockings with decency
Turning your back to the President
Drinking spiritous or fermented liquors without sufficient excuse
All of the above were fineable offenses

7. When they took residence in Old West and Old East in the 1840's, on what floor of each building were the Societies' respective chambers?*

Basement
Second
Third

8. The first resolution debated by the Dialectic Society in Fall 1938 was "The Dialectic Senate should go on record as approving the annexation of the Czechoslovakian Sudeten German area by Germany." The resolution*

Passed narrowly: 8:6
Failed narrowly: 6:8
Failed unanimously: 0:14

9. In what room of the White House did President James K. Polk and Secretary of the Navy John Mason sit for their portraits by Thomas Sully in May of 1847?*

Red Room
Green Room
Blue Room

10. In what year did the membership of the Societies famously dwindle down to a single student, Stanley Greenberg?*

1959
1969
1977

11. On what night of the week did the original Debating Society meet?*

Monday
Wednesday
Thursday

12. At the second meeting of the Debating Society (June 11, 1795), the query "Is the truth always to be adhered to?" was deabted. What was the decision made on the query?*

Breaches of faith are always proper because they are to be suspected of all men
Breaches of faith are sometimes proper
Breaches of faith are never proper

13. Which Member of the Debating Society introduced the motion to divide the organization on June 25, 1795?*

Maurice Moore
David Gillespie
Hinton James

14. In August of 1804, the son of University Father William Davie, Hyder Ali Davie, was expelled from the Dialectic Society in a vote of 28 to 1 because he*

ransacked the Phi Chamber in a drunken stupor
harassed a Phi who refused to move from his table at a tavern and began an intersociety bar fight
stepped on the toes of a fellow Di at the University Ball and began a brawl

15. The first member to be burried in the Society plot was Zenas Johnson, a Di who died in August 1824. In what North Carolina county was he born?*

Rowan
Orange
Catawba

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