Q 01/05

Larry Bird's unbeaten Indiana State team lost the 1979 NCAA final to Michigan State and which guard?

A) Isiah Thomas

B) Magic Johnson

C) Sidney Moncrief

D) Darrell Griffith

Answer · why

B) Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson's Spartans won 75–64, ending Indiana State's 33–0 run. The two stars carried their rivalry into the NBA through the 1980s.

Q 02/05

In 1967, Indiana State's Memorial Stadium became the first outdoor stadium fitted with which surface?

A) AstroTurf

B) FieldTurf

C) Tartan Turf

D) PolyTurf

Answer · why

A) AstroTurf

AstroTurf went down in Terre Haute as an old minor league ballpark was rebuilt for football. Indiana State became the first university in the world to...

Q 03/05

John Wooden coached Indiana State for two seasons before winning ten national titles at which school?

A) Kentucky

B) Purdue

C) UCLA

D) Kansas

Answer · why

C) UCLA

UCLA hired Wooden away in 1948, and he won his ten NCAA championships there in a 12-year span. Indiana State later named its home floor the Nellie and...

Q 04/05

David Letterman's alma mater opened in 1918 as Indiana State's eastern division in which Indiana city?

A) Fort Wayne

B) Kokomo

C) Anderson

D) Muncie

Answer · why

D) Muncie

Muncie got its campus when the Ball brothers bought a foreclosed school and gave it to the state. Terre Haute's trustees governed it for decades befor...

Q 05/05

A picture in what is now Indiana State's Fairbanks Hall inspired which soft drink's 1915 bottle?

A) Pepsi-Cola

B) Coca-Cola

C) Dr Pepper

D) Moxie

Answer · why

B) Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola's contour bottle began as Earl R. Dean's pencil sketch of a cocoa pod. He worked for Terre Haute's Root Glass Company, and the hall was then...