Can you name the colleges based on a few of their notable alumni?

Alumni	College
Dick Butkus, Hugh Hefner, Roger Ebert
Regis Philbin, Condoleezza Rice, Nicholas Sparks, Joe Montana
John Elway, Tiger Woods, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride
Roger Clemens, Walter Cronkite, Farrah Fawcett, Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger
e.e. cummings, Al Gore, Tommy Lee Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Conan O'Brien
David Allen Grier, James Earl Jones, Lucy Liu, Tom Brady, Gerald Ford
Barry Bonds, Phil Mickelson, David Spade, Al Michaels
Nancy Cartwright, Jim Morrison, Francis Ford Coppola, Troy Aikman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Toni Morrison, Bill Nye, Keith Olbermann, Janet Reno, E.B. White
Jeff Foxworthy, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek

Alumni	College
Holly Hunter, Andy Warhol, Ming-Na Wen, Matt Ramme
Thomas Jefferson, Jon Stewart, James Monroe, John Marshall
Tip O'Neill, Leonard Nimoy, Amy Poehler, John Kerry, Matt Hasselbeck
Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Dole, Paul Pierce, Alan Mulally
George H.W. Bush, Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver
Jack Nicklaus, R.L. Stine, Bobby Knight, John Glenn
George Lucas, Jason Reitman, Will Ferrell, John Wayne
Andy Griffith, Michael Jordan, Marion Jones, James K. Polk, Mia Hamm
Antonin Scalia, Bill Clinton, Paul Tagliabue, Patrick Ewing
David Duchovny, Ralph Nader, Brooke Shields, James Madison, Steve Forbes

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Magna Cum Laude Quiz

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	ak1893:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 16:08 GMT	6 points
	Neil Armstrong is definitely a Purdue alum not USC

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	dougbq:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 16:25 GMT	11 points
	Jimmy Carter is a Naval Academy grad.

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	Amy_Rey:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 16:31 GMT	0 points
	"College of William and Mary" should be accepted, not just "William and Mary." And yes, Carter went to the U.S. Naval Academy.

	Koltrane:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT	37 points
	You left out one of Cornell's most notable attendees...Andy Bernard!

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	redtreen:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 17:03 GMT	1 point
	Kerouac went to Columbia.

	Pogues:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 17:12 GMT	1 point
	I was thrown when Bob and Mike Golic wasn't listed for Notre Dame.

	Rdude:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 17:13 GMT	1 point
	John Kerry is a Yale alum

Alumni	College
Dick Butkus, Hugh Hefner, Roger Ebert
Regis Philbin, Condoleezza Rice, Nicholas Sparks, Joe Montana
John Elway, Tiger Woods, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride
Roger Clemens, Walter Cronkite, Farrah Fawcett, Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger
e.e. cummings, Al Gore, Tommy Lee Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Conan O'Brien
David Allen Grier, James Earl Jones, Lucy Liu, Tom Brady, Gerald Ford
Barry Bonds, Phil Mickelson, David Spade, Al Michaels
Nancy Cartwright, Jim Morrison, Francis Ford Coppola, Troy Aikman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Toni Morrison, Bill Nye, Keith Olbermann, Janet Reno, E.B. White
Jeff Foxworthy, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek

	wheatonbrando:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 17:41 GMT	-3 points
	I know at my College, an alum is anyone who completed two semesters of studies here. Maybe that's it.

	marymack:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 18:23 GMT	6 points
	Meryl Streep graduated from Vassar.

	hawkeye388:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 18:38 GMT	2 points
	the dictionary says an alumnus is a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school

	NY_MOB:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 18:39 GMT	6 points
	Thank goodness for the athletes listed or I would have named very few of these.

	jackie_suede:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 18:59 GMT	0 points
	Kerouac never attended B.C. You could go with Mike Lupica, Chris O'Donnell, Tip O'Neill, Ed McMahon, or Leslie Visser.

	MrCaliChicago:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT	-1 points
	How could you put Princeton without mentioning Philip Banks?

	johnlk:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT	1 point
	Jimmy Carter apparently took some classes at Georgia Tech between matriculating at Georgia Southwestern and transferring to the Naval Academy, but he certainly isn't an alum.

	jshep:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 20:08 GMT	-1 points
	I don't know about the others listed for the college, but Andy Warhol actually graduated before that college even existed. When he was there it was the ____ Institute of Technology, which is not accepted as an answer. That nit aside, this was a really enjoyable quiz!

	Bobman1:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT	0 points
	Jimmy Carter, a mid all the way, but as part of the nuclear navy, odds are pretty good he had to take graduate level courses--maybe even get a masters, at a top engineering/tech school. When I was at Navy in the 80s, some guys went to Stevens Tech in NJ for their 5th year before heading out with the fleet. Very reasonable to assume (and should be readily verifiable for such a public person) that he did his grad level work at GT. I was really hoping my official alma mater would be on here--small enough to be obscure, but the likes of Rahm Emmanuel, Yoko Ono, Barbara Walters and Joanne Woodward (Suzanne Vega, Holly Robinson, Lauren Holly, JJ Abrams, and Julianna Margulies as well). Holly R gave my my tour in 1984... um, where do I sign up?

	tulliuscicero:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 20:41 GMT	3 points
	Please take CMU for Carnegie Mellon. That's what everyone in Pittsburgh calls it.

	procrstinologist:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 21:37 GMT	-1 points
	Do you think University of Phoenix could make it on the list?

	Bretzky:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 22:48 GMT	10 points
	Apparently Heaven's easier to get into than Arizona State. -Ned Flanders

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	TimeAndTide:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 23:24 GMT	2 points
	Nice idea, but too many iffy ones here, IMHO. @marymack: Yep, Meryl Streep IS a Vassar alum (woo hoo!) ... but she got her MFA from Yale, so she's a Yale alum too.

	flixuk:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 23:33 GMT	-2 points
	Oxford and Cambridge not here?

	ikspuls:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 00:34 GMT	-1 points
	wouldn't have got nearly as much as I did if it weren't for some of the athletes.

	GeoExpert:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 00:42 GMT	2 points
	So Mr. Sporcle went to Carnegie Mellon.

	jbruin152:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 02:08 GMT	2 points
	Kerry got his JD at BC; Rice got a Masters at ND. That said, as someone already noted, the most common usage of alum is for where someone went for undergraduate study, so this is kinda weak.

	hoosierscolts:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 02:52 GMT	0 points
	Ms. Rice is a Stanford grad.

	TimeAndTide:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 04:12 GMT	1 point
	@jbruin152 -- I disagree. I consider myself as much an alum of my graduate school as I do of my undergrad college.

	Josh:	Apr 5th, 2011 at 15:22 GMT	-2 points
	Yay, Cornell made the quiz! Boo, second-lowest guessed!

	David:	Apr 6th, 2011 at 00:07 GMT	1 point
	Bobman1 - Carter only did one or two semesters at Tech as an undergrad, before he got to Annapolis. There's a dinner for freshmen entering their second semester, at which point they tell you that you've made it farther than Carter.

	craigmeister:	Apr 6th, 2011 at 05:43 GMT	1 point
	i tried various forms of william&mary. No luck.