Q 01/05

FAU's Boca Raton campus sits on a World War II Army airfield that trained troops in which secret technology?

A) Sonar

B) Radar

C) Jet propulsion

D) Code-breaking

Answer · why

B) Radar

Radar was so new and secret that Boca Raton held the Army Air Forces' only wartime school for it, and trainees had to pass a background investigation ...

Q 02/05

Which sitting US president came to Boca Raton to dedicate FAU and received the first degree it ever awarded?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) Dwight D. Eisenhower

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson accepted an honorary doctorate at the dedication, telling a crowd of 15,000 that education should be open to everyone who could qual...

Q 03/05

Which prop comedian with a Las Vegas residency enrolled at FAU and first tried stand-up during his first year there?

A) Gallagher

B) Jeff Dunham

C) Carrot Top

D) Penn Jillette

Answer · why

C) Carrot Top

Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson, grew up in Cocoa, Florida, where a swimming coach gave him the nickname that later became his stage name.

Q 04/05

Which local sea animals does FAU's Elasmo Lab study using drones, aerial surveys and underwater video?

A) Manatees

B) Sea turtles

C) Whales

D) Sharks

Answer · why

D) Sharks

Sharks and rays are the lab's speciality, above all the blacktips that crowd local waters each season, which it follows to learn what drives their mig...

Q 05/05

The World War II runways still visible on FAU's Boca Raton campus are mainly used for what today?

A) Parking

B) Drone testing

C) Solar panels

D) Marching band practice

Answer · why

A) Parking

Parking now covers the four runways of the old Army airfield, and a neighbouring college's lot is the concrete ramp where B-17 bombers once stood.