Emily's Trivia Quiz: Now I Would Tell You About Boll Weevil But that Bug is Just too Scary

We have a final next week in Scientific Methods for Social Scientists.  Last week, our professor asked us what format we'd prefer for the final.  We responded in a rousing chorus of "matching!"   Matching tests are the greatest.  You can really use process of elimination way more than you can with multiple choice, and creative teachers can make the letters you use spell things.  Without matching, I never would have pulled B in high school chemistry.  Since finals are around this week, instead of creating a normal, multiple choice quiz for you today, I'm going to gift you with a lovely matching quiz of college mascots.  Roll over the school mascots to see what animals/blobs they purport to be.  Then hit the word bank to pick what school you think is right.  There are no letters, so nothing is going to spell anything fun.

 

         Word Box! (I know it's not in a box, I've had the worst time formatting tonight.)

Webster University                        Akron
UC Santa Cruz                                   University of Arkansas
Saint Louis University                      Florida Atlantic University
Binghamton University                   Drexel University
University of Oregon                      University of Minnesota
University of Dayton                      Southern Illinois University
Florida Atlantic University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer Key:

Binghamton University Bearcat

Florida Atlantic University Owl

Drexel Dragon

Southern Illinois University Saluki (my mom's alma mater!)

Texas Christian University Horned Frog

University of Minnesota Golden Gopher

University of Oregon Ducks

University of Dayton Flyer

Akron Zip

University of Arkansas- Monticello Boll Weevil

Webster University Gorlok ("The name 'Gorlok' was derived from the combination of two streets that intersect in the heart of 'Old Webster,' Gore and Lockwood avenues. The name was chosen in June 1984 by a campus committee that considered many suggestions and voted several times before settling on the unusual nickname."  Lamezors.) (Courtesy of the Webster University website.)

Saint Louis University Billiken.  This MIGHT help explain it.

UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug

Emily's Trivia Quiz runs Fridays at 9:00 a.m.  She is sorry this looks so ugly.  Also, she's thrilled that she could use that song as a lyric, because how many posts are about boll weevils??

Comments

[justin]

Southern Illinois is always my favorite team to see in the ncaa tournament. because they are, as their name indicates, so ill.

also i always have to stop and think whether i mean "ncaa" or "naacp" when college basketball season rolls around, lest i embarrass myself by appearing even more oblivious to sports than i actually am.

[justin]

...or racist

[Tori]

inadequate representation of mascots that are colors!

[David G]

Interesting. Only two questions:
1. What's a zip? and
2. What's Webster University?

[HotSauce]

Hate to call you out on this, but the university of arkansas' mascot is the razorback, a type of hog. it would appear that the boll weevil is the mascot of the university of arkansas-monticello

[EmGusk]

Dad: This explains a zip: http://www.uofazips.com/what_is_zip.php
And this explains Webster University: http://www.webster.edu/, which is in St. Louis

HotSauce: My bad, I can't even tell you how tired I was when I wrote this, but that's no excuse.