Q 01/05

Clemson's entire senior class volunteered for military service when the United States entered which war?

A) The First World War

B) The Second World War

C) The Korean War

D) The Vietnam War

Answer · why

A) The First World War

The First World War: in April 1917 the whole senior class offered itself for service together, and enrolment at the college dropped during the war.

Q 02/05

Clemson's campus sits on Fort Hill, the former plantation of which US vice president?

A) Aaron Burr

B) Martin Van Buren

C) John C. Calhoun

D) John Tyler

Answer · why

C) John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun's daughter Anna married Thomas Green Clemson, who inherited Fort Hill; his will ordered that the house never be torn down, and it stil...

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

Belgium came through family: his father-in-law, then Secretary of State, arranged the posting in 1844, and as chargé he was the highest-ranking Americ...

Q 04/05

Thomas 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

Mississippi State is named in the will itself, under its older title; the same will created seven trustees who choose their own successors, a majority...

Q 05/05

Which future governor led the fight to accept Clemson's bequest and later had the main building named for him?

A) Wade Hampton

B) Benjamin Tillman

C) Strom Thurmond

D) John Peter Richardson

Answer · why

B) Benjamin Tillman

Benjamin Tillman rallied farmers behind the bequest and sat on the first board; in 2020 the trustees asked the state legislature for permission to res...