Q 01/05

In what year was Clemson founded as an agricultural college?

A) 1869

B) 1889

C) 1909

D) 1929

Answer · why

B) 1889

The bill creating the college passed the state legislature by a single vote, and classes began in 1893 with 446 students.

Q 02/05

The campus sits on Fort Hill, the former plantation of which US vice president?

A) Andrew Jackson

B) Henry Clay

C) John C. Calhoun

D) Daniel Webster

Answer · why

C) John C. Calhoun

His daughter Anna married the founder in 1838, and the plantation passed to the couple; the Fort Hill house still stands on campus.

Q 03/05

Before founding the college, Thomas Green Clemson served as US chargé d'affaires to which country?

A) Belgium

B) France

C) Spain

D) Prussia

Answer · why

A) Belgium

He held the post from 1844 to 1852 and later served as US Superintendent of Agriculture; his will asked that the school be modelled on Mississippi Sta...

Q 04/05

Clemson's will asked that the new school be modelled on which existing institution?

A) Texas A&M College

B) Cornell University

C) Virginia Tech

D) Mississippi State

Answer · why

D) Mississippi State

Both were land-grant agricultural and mechanical schools; the federal Morrill Act funds were moved to Clemson from South Carolina College.

Q 05/05

Which future governor lobbied for the college and has its main building named for him?

A) Wade Hampton

B) Benjamin Tillman

C) Strom Thurmond

D) John Peter Richardson

Answer · why

B) Benjamin Tillman

The building burned down in May 1894, months after opening, and was rebuilt the same year; it later came to house the College of Education.