Q 01/05

Which nickname do LSU fans give Tiger Stadium, known as one of college football's loudest venues?

A) The Swamp

B) Between the Hedges

C) Death Valley

D) The Big House

Answer · why

C) Death Valley

Death Valley holds more than 100,000 fans, and an ESPN sideline reporter once called it the loudest stadium he had ever been in.

Q 02/05

By legend, LSU's first team wore purple and gold because they were the colors of which celebration?

A) Mardi Gras

B) Bastille Day

C) Candlemas

D) All Saints' Day

Answer · why

A) Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras colors are purple, green and gold, and the story goes that the shop's green had sold out before the 1893 team bought its ribbons.

Q 03/05

On Christmas Day 1907, LSU beat a local university 56–0 in which city outside the United States?

A) Toronto

B) Havana

C) Mexico City

D) Nassau

Answer · why

B) Havana

Havana hosted the game, the first Bacardi Bowl, against the University of Havana. It is often called the first American college game on foreign soil, ...

Q 04/05

What was built into LSU's Tiger Stadium in the 1930s as a way to fund thousands of extra seats?

A) Classrooms

B) Army barracks

C) Dormitories

D) Science labs

Answer · why

C) Dormitories

Dormitories had state money while the seating did not, so rooms went under the stands and the stadium grew by 10,000 seats. Students lived beneath the...

Q 05/05

How did LSU raise the $750 to buy its first live tiger mascot, Mike I, from a zoo in 1936?

A) A governor's personal check

B) A benefit football game

C) Alumni raffle tickets

D) 25 cents from each student

Answer · why

D) 25 cents from each student

Collecting 25 cents from each student paid for the cub, who arrived from the Little Rock Zoo under the name Sheik. He was renamed after athletic train...