Q 01/05

George Mason, the Founding Father GMU is named for, refused to sign which document in 1787?

A) The Treaty of Paris

B) The Constitution

C) The Northwest Ordinance

D) The Articles of Confederation

Answer · why

B) The Constitution

The Constitution had no bill of rights, so Mason became one of just three delegates at the Philadelphia convention who would not sign.

Q 02/05

Which top-seeded team did 11th-seeded George Mason beat in overtime to reach the 2006 Final Four?

A) UConn

B) Memphis

C) Villanova

D) Texas

Answer · why

A) UConn

UConn fell 86–84 in the regional final, making the Patriots the first Colonial Athletic Association team ever to reach a Final Four.

Q 03/05

George Mason graduate Rhea Seehorn played attorney Kim Wexler for six seasons in which AMC drama?

A) Breaking Bad

B) The Walking Dead

C) Better Call Saul

D) Halt and Catch Fire

Answer · why

C) Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul came long after her student days at George Mason, where she studied art and was first introduced to theater.

Q 04/05

Students rub which part of the George Mason statue on GMU's main campus for good luck before exams?

A) His nose

B) His right hand

C) His knee

D) His left toe

Answer · why

D) His left toe

His left toe gets rubbed so often that the bronze has been reinforced to withstand the constant contact.

Q 05/05

George Mason engineering graduate Anousheh Ansari was the first woman to pay her own way to where?

A) The space station

B) The Antarctic ice cap

C) The Mariana Trench

D) The Titanic wreck

Answer · why

A) The space station

The space station seat opened up in 2006 when the man she was backing up failed a medical, and the X Prize for private spaceflight carries her family'...