chapel hill name

For Chick-fil-A’s 2016 College Football Kickoff Game quiz. You can see the entire quiz here.

The University of North Carolina is located in Chapel Hill — where does the name of the town come from?

A. The church that was located in what is now the center of campus.
B. The old football field on the hill that many players referred to as their “chapel.”
C. The football program’s first chaplain, whose house was located atop a hill on campus.
D. A nearby hill that’s home to more than a dozen churches.

Chapel Hill was named after New Hope Chapel. When the UNC trustees chose the area around New Hope Chapel as the site for the first state university in 1793, they also named a committee to lay out a town adjacent to the site.