Challenge readers know about bell ringing at Carolina, including Sybil Skakle in Chapel Hill who knew the answer to the last Challenge: "Which famous Chapel Hill resident attended the Swain-Atkins wedding, and would later ring the campus bell on 15 Sept. 1875 when the university re-opened, after having been closed in 1871 following the end of the Civil War in 1865?"

As Skakle replied, "Cornelia Phillips Spencer rang the campus bell September 15 1875 to announce the reopening of the University after the Civil War. She would have been at the Swain-Atkins wedding."

According to www.wikipedia.com, "Cornelia Phillips was born March 20, 1825 in Harlem, New York City, New York, the youngest of three children born to James Phillips and Judith Vermeule Phillips. (Her brother Samuel F. Phillips served as United States solicitor general under President Ulysses S. Grant.) In 1826, James Phillips took a post as a mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

After marrying James Monroe Spencer in 1855, the couple "moved to Alabama, where their only child, Julia (later known as June Spencer Love), was born in 1859. Spencer and her daughter returned to Chapel Hill after her husband's death in 1861, where she began her first book and wrote about the University for Local Newspapers. She published regular columns in The North Carolina Presbyterian and the Raleigh Sentinel."

A strong advocate of UNC-Chapel Hill, "she urged the North Carolina legislature to close the university in 1870 to protect the school from Reconstruction politics....After Reconstruction, she similarly urged the school's reopening and, on March 20, 1875, Spencer climbed to the roof of the South Building and rung its bell to celebrate. She contributed to the university by writing hymns for special occasions, organizing community events, and keeping the alumni records. In 1895, she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the University."

A pair of tickets to the Lumina Theaters is on the way to Skakle.

Now it's time to reveal next week's Challenge. Here's how it works. Every week we'll pose a trivia question that has something to do with our community or North Carolina. The question might be about something that happened 20 years ago or someone who made the news just yesterday.

If you think you know the answer, send e-mail to chquiz@aol.com, or mail it on a postcard to Chapel Hill Challenge, The Chapel Hill Herald, 2828 Pickett Road, Durham, NC 27705. You also can send us a fax at (919) 419-6889. Make sure you include your name, address and phone number. Answers must be received by Thursday of the same week. Employees of the Durham Herald Co. are not eligible for the Challenge.

Each week there will be a drawing from all the correct answers. The winner will receive a pair of movie passes donated by the Lumina Theater in Southern Village. (Note: Passes may not be valid for certain shows.)

Ready to give it a try? Then sort your IBM punch cards while pondering the following: "What was one of the primary uses of the first mainframe-type computer (a UNIVAC 1105) installed on the Carolina campus in 1959?"

Good luck!