Auburn Trivia
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This Auburn trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers the university and its Tigers from the East Alabama Male College charter of 1856 to today: the land-grant years, the 1960 renaming, the school colours borrowed from Virginia, and traditions like War Eagle, Tiger Walk, rolling Toomer's Corner and Aubie. Football gets its due — the Iron Bowl, Shug Jordan's 1957 champions, Bo Jackson, Cam Newton's perfect 2010, the Kick Six — alongside Charles Barkley and Bruce Pearl's Final Four runs, the swimming dynasty and the equestrian titles. It also visits famous graduates from Tim Cook to Octavia Spencer. Early questions suit anyone who has yelled 'War Eagle' once; later ones reward people who know who first rolled the oaks, which coach the Heisman is named for, and how many mascot titles Aubie has won. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Under what name was Auburn chartered in 1856?
East Alabama Male College
East Alabama Male College opened in 1859 as a private Methodist liberal arts school; the church handed it to the state in 1872, and it became Alabama's first land-grant college.
Q 02Which Auburn text, written by history professor George Petrie in 1943, praises work, hard work?
The Auburn Creed
The Auburn Creed was written in November 1943 by George Petrie, the history professor who half a century earlier had organised and coached the school's first football team.
Q 03What was Auburn University officially called from 1899 until 1960?
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Alabama Polytechnic Institute replaced Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama once the school's programmes had grown far beyond agriculture and mechanics.
Q 04Which federal act made Auburn Alabama's first land-grant university in 1872?
The Morrill Act
The Morrill Act of 1862 gave each state federal land to sell to fund a college of agriculture and mechanics; Alabama chose the struggling Methodist school at Auburn, which the church handed over in 1872.
Q 05Whose alma mater inspired Auburn's orange and blue colours?
University of Virginia
George Petrie, Auburn's first football coach, borrowed them from his old school.
Q 06Which battle cry doubles as Auburn fans' everyday greeting?
War Eagle
War Eagle is a battle cry, not a mascot; the best-known legend dates it to 1892, when a Civil War veteran's pet eagle is said to have circled the field and fallen dead as Auburn won.
Q 07What is the name of Auburn's costumed tiger mascot?
Aubie
Aubie began as cartoonist Phil Neel's tiger on a 1959 football programme cover and only stepped off the page as a costumed mascot in 1979.
Q 08What do Auburn fans do at Toomer's Corner after big wins?
Roll the trees with toilet paper
Fans roll the trees with toilet paper, a custom said to go back to Toomer's employees flinging telegraph ticker tape over the power lines whenever word of an away win came in.
Q 09What happened to the Toomer's Corner oaks after the 2010 Iron Bowl?
A rival fan poisoned them
A rival fan poisoned them with a herbicide, then bragged about it on a sports radio call-in show, which led to his arrest; the dying oaks were removed in 2013 and later replaced.
Q 10Toomer's Corner takes its name from what kind of business?
A drugstore
A drugstore, Toomer's Drugs, was opened on the corner in 1896 by Sheldon Toomer, who four years earlier had played halfback on Auburn's first football team.
Q 11The Iron Bowl takes its name from the industry of which Alabama city, where it was long played?
Birmingham
Birmingham's chief industry was iron and steel, and an Auburn coach is credited with coining the name when he called the yearly Alabama game there his team's own bowl.
Q 12What made the 1989 Iron Bowl, an upset of unbeaten Alabama, a first for the rivalry?
It was played on Auburn's campus
It was played on Auburn's campus for the first time in a series dating to 1893; Auburn fans had long complained that the usual big-city venue was neutral in name only.
Q 13In which neutral-site stadium was the Iron Bowl played for decades?
Legion Field
Q 21Whom did Auburn beat in the BCS National Championship Game to cap the 2010 season?
Oregon
Oregon lost 22-19 to a last-second Wes Byrum field goal in Glendale, which finished a perfect 14-0 season under Gene Chizik.
Q 22Which quarterback won the Heisman in 2010 and led Auburn to the national title?
Cam Newton
Cam Newton had left Florida for Blinn, a Texas junior college, only a year earlier, and went first overall to the Carolina Panthers the following spring.
Q 23Unbeaten Auburn was left out of the 2004 season's BCS title game in favour of Oklahoma and which other unbeaten team?
USC
USC beat Oklahoma in the title game while Auburn, shut out of it, won the Sugar Bowl over Virginia Tech to finish 13-0 and second in the final polls.
Legion Field hosted every Iron Bowl from 1948 to 1988 with tickets split evenly, yet Auburn never accepted it as neutral, since Alabama played several of its own home games there each season.
Q 14Which Auburn player caught Alabama's missed field goal and ran it back for the Kick Six touchdown?
Chris Davis
Chris Davis caught the 57-yard attempt about nine yards deep in his own end zone and ran it back down the left sideline on the final play for a 34-28 win over No. 1 Alabama.
Q 15What put one second back on the clock, giving Alabama the kick that became the Kick Six?
A replay review
A replay review of T.J. Yeldon's run out of bounds restored one second after the clock had run out, seemingly sending the game to overtime, so Alabama tried a 57-yard kick.
Q 16Which Auburn quarterback won the school's first Heisman Trophy, in 1971?
Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan edged Cornell running back Ed Marinaro in the voting after a 248-yard, four-touchdown day at Georgia sealed his case.
Q 17Which Auburn great was the first athlete named an All-Star in both Major League Baseball and the NFL?
Bo Jackson
Bo Jackson was a baseball All-Star with the Royals in 1989 and a Pro Bowl pick with the Raiders a year later, while Nike's 'Bo Knows' adverts made him a household name.
Q 18Which fellow Tigers did John Heisman leave Auburn to coach in 1900?
Clemson
Clemson hired John Heisman in 1900 after five Auburn seasons on a salary of only $500, pay so scant that he moved on, decades before the famous trophy carried his name.
Q 19Which coach led Auburn to its first AP national championship in 1957?
Shug Jordan
Shug Jordan won 176 games from 1951 to 1975, and in 1973 Auburn added his name to its stadium while he was still coaching, a first for an active coach in America.
Q 20With which school does Auburn share the 1957 national title?
Ohio State
Ohio State topped the coaches' poll while the AP's writers chose Auburn, unbeaten at 10-0 but on NCAA probation and barred from playing in a bowl.
Q 24Which Steve Spurrier-coached team did Auburn rout 56-17 to win the 2010 SEC championship?
South Carolina Gamecocks
South Carolina Gamecocks fans were seeing a first, an SEC East champion not named Florida, Georgia or Tennessee, but the rout in Atlanta sent unbeaten Auburn on to the BCS title game.
Q 25Which team beat Auburn 34-31 in the final seconds of the 2014 BCS National Championship Game?
Florida State
Florida State scored with 13 seconds left, ending a season in which Auburn had twice won on late miracles, the Prayer at Jordan-Hare and the Kick Six.
Q 26Which clock-towered Auburn University building rose in 1888 after fire destroyed Old Main, the original college building?
Samford Hall
Samford Hall was built partly from bricks salvaged from the burned Old Main, and in 1929 it was named for William J. Samford, who had studied at the college and became governor of Alabama.
Q 27What is the Tiger Walk?
Players walking through fans to the stadium
Players walking through fans to the stadium began in the 1960s with children seeking autographs along Donahue Drive, and an Auburn athletic director later called it the most copied tradition in college football.
Q 28What flies over the field before Auburn home games?
A live eagle
A live eagle has flown before kickoff since 2000, when a golden eagle nicknamed Tiger made the first flight, and golden and bald eagles have both made it since.
Q 29Which coach did Auburn hire from Liberty in November 2022 and fire midway through his third season?
Hugh Freeze
Hugh Freeze replaced the fired Bryan Harsin but went 15-19, and a 10-3 home loss to Kentucky in November 2025 ended his time in charge.
Q 30Which Auburn basketball star was SEC Player of the Year in 1984 and later a Hall of Famer?
Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley, nicknamed the Round Mound of Rebound, skipped his final Auburn season for the NBA and entered the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2006.