Q 01/05

In which town do the Hawkeyes play their home games?

A) Des Moines

B) Cedar Rapids

C) Ames

D) Iowa City

Answer · why

D) Iowa City

Kinnick Stadium holds 69,250, the 25th-largest college football venue in the country.

Q 02/05

Kinnick Stadium is named after the school's only winner of which award?

A) Davey O'Brien Award

B) Biletnikoff Award

C) Butkus Award

D) Heisman Trophy

Answer · why

D) Heisman Trophy

Heisman Trophy. Accepting it in 1939, Nile Kinnick thanked God that his battles were on football fields and not on the battlefields of Europe.

Q 03/05

Nile Kinnick, Iowa's stadium namesake, died in 1943 serving as what?

A) Army officer

B) Navy pilot

C) Marine paratrooper

D) War correspondent

Answer · why

B) Navy pilot

Navy pilot. He had turned down pro football for law school before enlisting, and at 24 he ditched his fighter in the sea off Venezuela on a training f...

Q 04/05

Which coach took over Iowa in 1999 and went on to become the winningest football coach in Big Ten history?

A) Barry Alvarez

B) Bret Bielema

C) Dan McCarney

D) Kirk Ferentz

Answer · why

D) Kirk Ferentz

Kirk Ferentz. His first Iowa team went 1–10 and lost every conference game in 1999; three years later the Hawkeyes went unbeaten in the league.

Q 05/05

Iowa's surprise 1939 team, led by Nile Kinnick, earned which nickname?

A) The Vow Boys

B) The Ironmen

C) The Wonder Team

D) The Praying Colonels

Answer · why

B) The Ironmen

The Ironmen. Iowa had won only two games in the previous two years; new coach Eddie Anderson had so little depth that his starters rarely left the fie...