Q 01/05

BYU's forerunner was a branch of the University of Deseret, now called what?

A) Utah State

B) Weber State

C) University of Utah

D) Southern Utah University

Answer · why

C) University of Utah

University of Utah. The Provo school was a branch of BYU's future archrival until 1875, when Brigham Young took over its building and made it a separa...

Q 02/05

The NCAA had to plan a mid-tournament bracket switch in 2003 because BYU's teams will not do what?

A) Play in Las Vegas

B) Play on Sundays

C) Play night games

D) Play on artificial turf

Answer · why

B) Play on Sundays

Play on Sundays. The selection committee had mistakenly put BYU on course for a Sunday regional final, so it arranged to move the Cougars to another r...

Q 03/05

Whom did Brigham Young send to Provo in 1876 to run his new academy?

A) Karl Maeser

B) George Brimhall

C) Benjamin Cluff

D) Abraham Smoot

Answer · why

A) Karl Maeser

Karl Maeser. Young's charge to the German-born schoolteacher was not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the Spirit of God...

Q 04/05

When Brigham Young Academy was dissolved in 1903, it was replaced by BYU and what other institution?

A) Brigham Young High School

B) Provo Normal School

C) Brigham Young College

D) Utah Valley Seminary

Answer · why

A) Brigham Young High School

Brigham Young High School. It closed in 1968, and its old Academy building was later restored and reopened in 2001 as Provo's city library.

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

Vermont. Born in Whitingham in 1801, he was a carpenter in upstate New York when he joined the church, and in 1847 he led its pioneers west to the Sal...