U.S. Schools

Question 1

Public land-grant university in same-named city, AB
Alabama’s 2nd largest school, to its rival U. of Alabama
Named for Oliver Goldsmith’s poem “The Deserted Village” (1770) - “Sweet ____! Loveliest village of the plain…”
SEC West - the Tigers
Alumni: Cam Newton, Bo Jackson

Answer 1

AUBURN UNIVERSITY

Question 2

Public land-grant school in same-named city, S.C.
South Carolina’s 2nd largest school
Named for Thomas Green, who donated land from his father-in-law (John C. Calhoun)’s plantation
The Tigers - fight song: “Tiger Rag”
Stadium, like LSU’s, is nicknamed “Death Valley”
The 2017 NCAA Football champions (defeated Alabama Tide)
Alumni include Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence (2018-20)

Answer 2

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Question 3

Public land-grant school in West Lafayette, IN
Named for early financial supporter
Big Ten West
The Boilermakers - home of the Big Bass Drum
Alumni include Chargers/Saints QB Drew Brees (1997-2000), astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Orville Redenbacher
Past staff include Amelia Earhart

Answer 3

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Question 4

Public land-grant school in New Brunswick, New Jersey (& Camden & Newark)
Rival of fellow NJ school Princeton
In 1825, changed name from “Queen’s College”
Big Ten East
Scarlet Knights - fight song “The Bells Must Ring”
Alumni include poet Joyce Kilmer & actor James Gandolfini

Answer 4

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Question 5

Private college in Brunswick, ME
Alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 5

BOWDOIN COLLEGE

Question 6

Private college in Waterville, ME

Answer 6

COLBY COLLEGE

Question 7

School in Winston-Salem, NC
ACC
The “Demon Deacons”
Alumni include Arnold Palmer

Answer 7

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Question 8

College in South Hadley, MA
Oldest of the “Seven Sisters”
Attended by Emily Dickinson

Answer 8

MOUNT HOLYOKE

Question 9

Historically black university in Louisiana
Site of Eddie Robinson Stadium, named for a coach
Home of the Tiger Marching Band, which played the first Superbowl half-time show

Answer 9

GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY

Question 10

Historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia
Atended by MLK Jr. & Herman Cain

Answer 10

MOREHOUSE COLLEGE

Question 11

Deaf university in Washington, D.C.
Founded in 1864 and named for founder Thomas Hopkins
Home of the Bison
Supposedly invented the football huddle to hide their hand signals

Answer 11

GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

Question 12

College of Columbia U. (NYC)
Named for Columbia president Frederick
Private women’s college since 1889
One of the 7 Sisters

Answer 12

BARNARD COLLEGE

Question 13

Massachusetts college
Alums include H. Clinton & M. Albright
One of the 7 Sisters

Answer 13

WELLESLEY COLLEGE

Question 14

Jesuit school
Main campus in Bronx
Also campuses in Lincoln Center (Manhattan) & Westchester
Alums include Frankie Frisch, a baseball player

Answer 14

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Question 15

Beloit College is located in Beloit in this state

Answer 15

WISCONSIN

Question 16

Cleveland, Ohio school
Home of the Spartans
Formed in a 1967 merger

Answer 16

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Question 17

Ohio school in same-named city
Site of 1970 “massacre” when 4 students were shot by National Guard at an anti-Vietnam War protest
Subject of John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning photo & of Neil Young’s song “Ohio”

Answer 17

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Question 18

Ohio college in same-named city
Home of the Yeomen
Oldest coed college in U.S. (since 1841)

Answer 18

OBERLIN COLLEGE

Question 19

Pennsylvania school in same-named city in the Main Line
Catholic
Home of the Wildcats
Division I - Big East
2016 NCAA men’s basketbal champs
“New town”

Answer 19

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

Question 20

School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founded by Baptists
Home of the Owls

Answer 20

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

Question 21

School in Nashville, Tennessee
Home of the Commodores
Built in 1873 & named for rail magnate Cornelius, one of America’s richest men
Attended by Al Gore

Answer 21

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Question 22

School in Houston, Texas
Home of the Owls
Est. 1912
Big in nanotechnology
Named for founder William Marsh, killed by his valet with chloroform in a forged will plot

Answer 22

RICE UNIVERSITY

Question 23

Pasadena school est. 1891
Rival of MIT
Manages JPL for NASA
Employed Feynman, Richter, & Pauling at different times
Setting of “The Big Bang Theory”

Answer 23

CALTECH
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Question 24

University
Est. 1780 in Lexington, Kentucky
Name means “beyond the woods”

Answer 24

TRANSYLVANIA U.

Question 25

University
Est. 1873 in Fort Worth, Texas
Home of the Horned Frogs

Answer 25

TEXAS CHRISTIAN U.
TCU

Question 26

Est. 1839 in Lexington, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley
Home of the Keydets
First admitted women 1997

Answer 26

VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VMI

Question 27

Est. 1749 in Lexington, VA
Named for George
Name later added school president, Robert

Answer 27

WASHINGTON & LEE U.

Question 28

USA’s oldest academic honor society
Formed 1776 at William & Mary
Symbol is a golden key
“Love of learning is the guide of life.”
Emerson’s “American Scholar” was given as a speech to Harvard chapter

Answer 28

PHI BETA KAPPA

Question 29

Yale secret society since 1832
Meet in “the Tomb”
Accused of stealing Geronimo’s remains
Bushes were members

Answer 29

SKULL & BONES