Holiday Trivia Test

Dec. 21, 2007

In anticipation of a long, slow week over the holidays, the office of university relations offers this trivia quiz for your amusement and edification. Our caveats are that we have intentionally tried to fool you into choosing the wrong answer, and when you think you know which wrong answer is right, it will be the question in which the right answer is right, thus fooling you again. To see the answer to each question, roll your cursor over the box beneath each question.

1. In 1894, the first year that Arkansas fielded a football team, what was the score of the game between Arkansas and the University of Texas?

a.   Arkansas 0, Texas 54
b.   Arkansas 0, Texas 0
c.   Arkansas 14, Texas 13
d.   Arkansas didn’t play Texas until 1914, when the Southwest Athletic Conference was created.

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A. Arkansas 0, Texas 54. The Arkansas Industrial University, as it was still called, did beat two Fort Smith high school teams under the coaching of John C. Futrall, the first coach and later university president.

2. Although the university has two radio stations today - KUAF, an affiliate of National Public Radio, and KXUA, a student-run radio station - the license for the university’s first radio station, KUOA, was sold after interest in maintaining on-air programming waned during the 1930s. At its farthest distance, how far away could the KUOA broadcast signal be heard?

a.   Siloam Springs, Arkansas
b.   Dallas, Texas
c.   Chicago, Illinois
d.   Calgary, Canada, where Mandy Moran, a UA alumna, is training to compete as a diver in the 2008 Olympics

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D. Calgary, Canada. The A.M. station, the second licensed station in Arkansas, had a night-time range of 2,000 miles, and received letters from listeners from as far away as Calgary.

3. And speaking of the Olympics, one Arkansas alumna has won an Olympic medal while competing for the United States. Who is she?

a.   Edel Hackett
b.   Melody Sye
c.   Deena Kastor
d.   Veronica Campbell

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C. Deena Kastor won a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympic marathon, running the original route from the Greek town of Marathon to Athens. Veronica Campbell also won gold medals in 2004 but while competing for her native country, Jamaica. Melody Sye and Edel Hackett were early successful runners for the women's track team.

4. A line drawing of the main entrance to Old Main is part of the official Seal of the University of Arkansas. Which three buildings have chiseled stone reproductions of the seal above their entrances?

a.   Vol Walker Hall, the Agriculture Building and the Chemistry Building
b.   Hotz Hall, Reid Hall and the former Fulbright Hall
c.   Engineering Hall, Vol Walker Hall and Memorial Hall
d.   Vol Walker Hall, Old Main and the Administration Building

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A. The seal was adopted in 1923 and the first building erected afterward was the Agriculture Building. Vol Walker Hall and the Chemistry Building were built during the next decade, and they included the seal as well.

5. Humorist Will Rogers spoke at the University of Arkansas twice, both times in the drafty and crowded “Schmidt’s Barn,” the gymnasium in which the basketball teams competed. In jest, Rogers remarked on his second trip to the Barn that he appreciated seeing that Arkansas hadn’t followed the trend of other schools by wasting money on new athletic facilities. After Rogers’ death, the design of one of the streets that bounded the campus was dedicated in his honor. Which one?

a.   Dickson Street
b.   Arkansas Avenue
c.   Maple Street
d.   Rogers Avenue

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B. The tree-planted median of Arkansas Avenue was dedicated in 1931 in honor of Rogers. A bronze plaque commemorates Rogers’ “heartfelt understanding of his fellowman.”

6. Although he attended classes as a student on campus for 16 years, J. William Fulbright earned only one college degree from the University of Arkansas. How many times does his name appear engraved in the sidewalks of campus? And, no, we’re not including students who have the same name as him.

a.   None. He was at Oxford when he finished his degree.
b.   One time
c.   Three times
d.   Four times or more

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D. Four times or more. Aside from his four years in college, Fulbright also did all of his undergraduate work in University School, which served as a lab for College of Education students training to become teachers. Fulbright's name appears twice in Senior Walk, first when he was a senior in 1924 and Senior Walk still listed the names of all seniors. His name also appears in the 1925 section, which was the first to include graduates rather than seniors. His name also appears in two other lists: the names of presidents and chancellors of the university; and the names of honorary degree recipients. The two latter lists are inscribed in sidewalks next to Silas Hunt Hall.

7. In the fall of 1981, students pilfered a 10-foot-tall statue, unloaded it next to Brough Commons and dangled a sign from it saying “Go Arkansas. Beat Texas,” It was apparently a good omen because Arkansas did indeed win that year. What was the statue?

a.   A Big Boy statue from the Shoney’s restaurant
b.   The Popeye statue from Allen Canning Co. in Springdale
c.   The turkey from in front of State Poultry Supply in Springdale
d.    The Christ of the Ozarks from Eureka Springs

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A. The Big Boy statue from the Shoney’s restaurant. A quick-thinking photographer for the student newspaper got a picture of it before university officials retrieved it and returned it to the Shoney’s on the north side of the Northwest Arkansas Mall.

8. Which of the following architects designed the Union Mall, the plaza between the Arkansas Union and Mullins Library?

a.   Edward Durell Stone, who designed the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
b.   Jeffrey Scherer, the architect who designed Fayetteville’s Blair Library
c.   E. Fay Jones, who designed Thorncrown Chapel
d.   Edward Durell Stone Jr., who designed the landscape for Euro Disney

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D. Edward Durell Stone Jr. designed the Union Mall in a formal pattern of rectangular spaces to complement the lines of the Fine Arts Center that his father designed 20 years earlier. The formal design has since been altered with angled portions of Senior Walk running through the rectangular spaces.

9. Tired of questions, here’s an answer: 3,576. Pick the right question from those below:

a.   How many stairs are there in the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium?
b.   How many seats are at John McDonnell Field?
c.   How many degrees were awarded in 2007?
d.   What is the square root of the total amount of gifts raised during the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century?

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C. There were a record 3,576 degrees awarded in 2007. Of those, 2,382 were undergraduate degrees; 1,079 were master’s degrees; and 115 were doctoral degrees.

10. Which of the following classical classes was not taught to freshmen when the Arkansas Industrial University opened for classes in 1872?

a.   Caesar’s Commentaries
b.   Cicero’s Orations
c.   Xenophon’s Anabasis
d.   Selections from Sophocles

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D. Sophocles was not taught until the junior year for students pursuing a classical liberal arts degree. Except for agricultural and engineering students, the early curriculum included classical instruction in all three terms of each year of study.

Your Score

If you got 0-3 answers right, you rank up there with Tusk, the Razorback mascot, who can randomly paw the ground and do as well.
If you got 4-6 answers right, you'll be hearing from our history department about graduate school opportunities.
If you got 7-9 answers right, there may be an endowed professorship with your name on it.
If you got all 10 answers right, please report to the special collections department of Mullins Library immediately.

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