Q 01/05

Under what name was Auburn chartered in 1856?

A) Alabama Wesleyan College

B) Auburn Agricultural College

C) East Alabama Male College

D) Southern Methodist Academy

Answer · why

C) 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'...

Q 02/05

Which Auburn text, written by history professor George Petrie in 1943, praises work, hard work?

A) The Auburn Creed

B) The Auburn Oath

C) The Alma Mater

D) The Tiger Code

Answer · why

A) 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'...

Q 03/05

What was Auburn University officially called from 1899 until 1960?

A) Alabama Agricultural College

B) Alabama A&M

C) Auburn Institute of Technology

D) Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Answer · why

D) Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Alabama Polytechnic Institute replaced Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama once the school's programmes had grown far beyond agriculture an...

Q 04/05

Which federal act made Auburn Alabama's first land-grant university in 1872?

A) The Homestead Act

B) The Morrill Act

C) The Hatch Act

D) The Smith-Lever Act

Answer · why

B) 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 sc...

Q 05/05

Whose alma mater inspired Auburn's orange and blue colours?

A) University of Virginia

B) Yale University

C) Princeton University

D) Clemson University

Answer · why

A) University of Virginia

George Petrie, Auburn's first football coach, borrowed them from his old school.