Final Exam
1. What year was the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign established?
A. 1865
B. 1867
C. 1868
D. 1869
2. What year did the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign open?
A. 1867
B. 1868
C. 1869
D. 1870
3. What was the original name of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
A. University of Illinois
B. Illinois State Agricultural University
C. Illinois Industrial University
D. Illinois Agricultural and Polytechnic Institute
4. What year were women first admitted to the university?
A. 1867
B. 1868
C. 1869
D. 1870
5. Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and Illinois alumnus Roger Ebert worked for which newspaper from 1966 to 2013?
A. Chicago Tribune
B. New York Times
C. Chicago Reader
D. Chicago Sun-Times
6. Which Illinois alumna became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, in 1977?
A. Dorothy Day
B. Rosalyn Yalow
C. Rayna Simons
D. Marie Curie
7. Which Illinois alumnus portrayed Ned “the Head” Ryerson in the movie Groundhog Day (1993)?
A. Timothy Carhart
B. Stephen Tobolowsky
C. Jon Michael Hill
D. Justin Gordron
8. How many Armory buildings has the U. of I. had over its history?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
9. With 423 victories, who is the winningest coach in Illinois men’s basketball history?
A. Bill Self
B. Bruce Weber
C. Harry Combes
D. Lou Henson
10. Who is Illinois’ longest-serving football coach and winner of four national championships?
A. Mike White
B. Ron Turner
C. Ray Eliot
D. Robert Zuppke
11. Which famous artist sculpted the university’s iconic Alma Mater statue?
A. Auguste Rodin
B. Lorado Taft
C. Georgia O’Keefe
D. Frederic Remington
12. What was the original location of the Alma Mater statue?
A. In front of Altgeld Hall
B. South of Foellinger Auditorium
C. On the steps of Foellinger Auditorium
D. East of Engineering Hall
13. What year did orange and blue become our school colors?
A. 1867
B. 1868
C. 1894
D. 1910
14. Who is considered the “father of Illinois athletics?”
A. Arthur Hall
B. Red Grange
C. George Huff
D. Dee Brown
15. Which of the following was invented at Illinois?
A. Home air conditioning
B. Online education
C. Whipped cream in a can
D. All of the above
16. Illinois built the first digital computer owned by a university. What was its name?
A. Blue Waters
B. HAL-9000
C. ILLIAC
D. Gemini
17. First published in 1871, what was the original name of The Daily Illini?
A. The Dial
B. The Siren
C. The Oracle
D. The Student
18. How many times has the Illinois men’s basketball team made it to the Final Four?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
19. Which Illinois architecture graduate designed State Farm Center (Assembly Hall), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, New York City’s Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?
A. Lou Liay
B. Max Abramovitz
C. David Kinley
D. Samson Raphaelson
20. Which legendary Illinois athlete has won the Boston Marathon eight times?
A. Jean Driscoll
B. Dike Eddleman
C. J. C. Caroline
D. Tatyana McFadden
21. The first African American woman to graduate from Illinois, this Chicago educator had a new residence hall named in her honor in 2013.
A. Rose Smith
B. Catherine Jones
C. Maudelle Tanner Brown Bousfield
D. Isabelle Turner
22. This federal legislation, also known as the “Land-Grant College Act,” eventually led to the university’s founding.
A. The Griggs Act
B. The Morrill Act of 1862
C. The Organic Act
D. The Smoot Act of 1867
23. Illinois’ first regent, or president, is buried on campus, between Altgeld Hall and the Henry Administration Building. Who was he?
A. Clark Robinson Griggs
B. David Kinley
C. John Milton Gregory
D. Eugene Davenport
24. What current structure occupies the site of Illinois’ original building, known as the “Elephant?”
A. Altgeld Hall
B. Illini Union
C. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
D. Foellinger Auditorium
25. What is the university motto?
A. Know Thyself
B. Knowledge Is Power
C. Excelsior
D. Learning and Labor
26. What year was the Illinois football team established?
A. 1880
B. 1890
C. 1900
D. 1910
27. What year did Illinois establish its Homecoming celebration?
A. 1905
B. 1910
C. 1913
D. 1920
28. What year did the streaking fad arrive on campus?
A. 1967
B. 1969
C. 1972
D. 1974
29. What was the first residence hall on campus?
A. Busey Hall
B. Garner Hall
C. Allen Hall
D. Scott Hall
30. The Illini women’s volleyball team was the national runner-up in 2011. How many times has the team made the Final Four?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
31. Which Illinois professor is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics?
A. John Wheatley
B. John Bardeen
C. F. W. Loomis
D. Anthony Leggett
32. Which of the following were invented at Illinois?
A. Digital touchscreens
B. Self-healing materials
C. Mosaic, the first widely popular graphical web browser
D. All of the above
33. Which Illinois alumnus won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A. Dave Eggers
B. William Maxwell
C. Richard Powers
D. Anne Valente
34. What is “Red” Grange’s real first name?
A. James
B. Harold
C. Ralph
D. Burt
35. What year was Memorial Stadium dedicated?
A. 1922
B. 1924
C. 1925
D. 1926
36. What is the oldest classroom building on campus?
A. Harker Hall
B. Natural History Building
C. Altgeld Hall
D. Lincoln Hall
37. What was the nickname of the famous Illini men’s basketball team of the 1940s?
A. Fab Five
B. Whiz Kids
C. Fast Five
D. Razzle Dazzles
38. How many miles of steel cable hold the two halves of the State Farm Center together?
A. 200
B. 408
C. 614
D. 828
39. Which Illinois professor invented the LED?
A. Nick Holonyak Jr.
B. Ollie Watts Davis
C. May Berenbaum
D. Robert Morrissey
40. Which Illinois basketball legend co-owns the Harlem Globetrotters?
A. Dee Brown
B. Kendall Gill
C. Mannie Jackson
D. Nick Anderson
41. Which Illinois president is credited with beginning our international enrollment boom during the early 20th century?
A. Andrew Sloan Draper
B. David Kinley
C. Edmund James
D. John Milton Gregory
42. Illinois botany professor John Laughnan changed the world of agriculture beginning in the 1950s when he developed a new “supersweet” hybrid of what plant?
A. Apple
B. Corn
C. Peach
D. Cherry
43. What is the name of the experimental agricultural field near the former Undergraduate Library?
A. Davenport Field
B. Mumford Grove
C. Morrow Plots
D. Miles Plots
44. Illinois alumnus and professor Nathan Ricker was the first person in the U.S. to receive a degree in what?
A. Agricultural engineering
B. Computer science
C. Architecture
D. Bioengineering
45. Which Illinois alumnus starred in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
A. Jonathan Kite
B. Matthew Jones
C. Nick Offerman
D. Frank Jennings
46. For which film did Illinois alumnus Ang Lee win the Academy Award for Best Director?
A. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
B. Brokeback Mountain
C. The Ice Storm
D. Eat Drink Man Woman
47. Who is the longest serving president in university history?
A. John Milton Gregory
B. Edmund James
C. Stanley Ikenberry
D. George Stoddard
48. What year was the first Quad Day?
A. 1970
B. 1971
C. 1975
D. 1979
49. What legendary pizza place opened its original location on Wright Street in 1970?
A. Garcia’s
B. Thunderbird
C. Papa Del’s
D. Gumby’s
50. This Illini and Green Bay Packers football legend owned a dog named “Butkus,” after his nemesis, the Illini and Chicago Bears Hall of Famer Dick Butkus.
A. Brett Favre
B. Ray Nitschke
C. Kurt Kittner
D. J.C. Caroline
EXTRA CREDIT: (5 Bonus Points!)
What year did the institution change its name to the University of Illinois?
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