Q 01/05

Brigham Young deeded property to create his academy in Provo on October 16 of which year?

A) 1831

B) 1847

C) 1862

D) 1875

Answer · why

D) 1875

Classes began the following January; the school traces its roots to a Provo school Warren Dusenberry opened in an adobe building in 1862.

Q 02/05

Under what name was BYU founded?

A) Deseret Normal College

B) Brigham Young Academy

C) Provo Latter-day Seminary

D) Timpanogos Institute

Answer · why

B) Brigham Young Academy

Young said he hoped children of the Latter-day Saints could get an education there "unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences" of other college...

Q 03/05

Brigham Young's choice as the school's first principal was which German immigrant?

A) Karl Maeser

B) Warren Dusenberry

C) Benjamin Cluff

D) Abraham Smoot

Answer · why

A) Karl Maeser

He arrived in April 1876; the first building on today's campus, begun in 1909, is the memorial that bears his name.

Q 04/05

When the academy was dissolved in 1903, it was replaced by BYU and what other institution?

A) Brigham Young High School

B) Provo Normal School

C) Deseret Junior College

D) Utah Valley Seminary

Answer · why

A) Brigham Young High School

The following year the new university bought land known as "Temple Hill" for the campus it occupies today.

Q 05/05

The university's founder, Brigham Young, was born in which state?

A) Vermont

B) New York

C) Ohio

D) Massachusetts

Answer · why

A) Vermont

He was raised in upstate New York, became the LDS Church's second president in 1847, and served as the first governor of Utah Territory.