• after Henry Ciccarone called his 1979 squad "the greatest Johns Hopkins lacrosse team ever", Sports Illustrated wrote, "It might be easier to name the most beautiful Miss America"?

Facts on topics related to Johns Hopkins University

Carnegie Mellon University

• Matthew T. Mason, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the first origami-folding robot in 2004?

Florida State University

• Major League Baseball pitcher Jonathan Johnson was admitted to the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 2006?
• Hootie Ingram tied the SEC record for interceptions, coached football at Clemson, and was the athletic director at Florida State and Alabama?

Columbia University

• physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
• Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas, the founder of Columbia University's anthropology department?
• Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?
• Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
• American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
• psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used "Sybil" as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University?
• the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?

Cornell University

• Cornell University in the United States has four statutory colleges?
  
• Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
• the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon, Harvard guard Francis Burr, Yale end Bob Forbes, Cornell center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"?
• the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui?
• the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?

Duke University

• Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
• Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
• the Duke University athletics records on the 1000 and 1500 meters, set between 1971 and 1973 by the US Olympian Bob Wheeler, still stand?

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship

• Dave and Kevin Huntley are the only father–son duo to win two NCAA Championships in their respective Division I Lacrosse careers?
• as head coach in 2003, Scott Marr brought the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team to the NCAA tournament for the first time?

Georgetown University

• Georgetown University Hoyas mascot Jack the Bulldog (pictured) is a living English bulldog whose name derives from a 1962 dog called "Lil-Nan's Royal Jacket?"
• Hoya Saxa is the Georgetown University school cheer, and has been used by students at sporting events since the 1890s or earlier?
• Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
• an employee resignation letter from the son of Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr., patent attorney to the Wright Brothers, led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center?
• the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?