Q 01/05

Which subjects did Michigan State's first curriculum leave out?

A) Algebra and geometry

B) Latin and Greek

C) Chemistry and botany

D) History and English

Answer · why

B) Latin and Greek

Latin and Greek. Dropping the classical languages opened the college to farm boys who had never studied them, and every student did three hours of man...

Q 02/05

What do Michigan State students famously do to 'The Rock', a boulder on campus?

A) Rub it for luck

B) Climb it at graduation

C) Repaint it constantly

D) Leave pennies on it

Answer · why

C) Repaint it constantly

Repaint it constantly. Student groups cover the class of 1873's boulder with a new message almost every night, and the paint is now so thick that fall...

Q 03/05

Michigan State's main campus is in which city?

A) East Lansing

B) Ann Arbor

C) Grand Rapids

D) Kalamazoo

Answer · why

A) East Lansing

East Lansing. The college came first: the town that grew up around it only became a city, under its present name, in 1907, half a century after classe...

Q 04/05

The MSU campus is built along the banks of which waterway?

A) Red Cedar River

B) Grand River

C) Kalamazoo River

D) Huron River

Answer · why

A) Red Cedar River

Red Cedar River. The fight song opens on its banks, and it splits the campus in two because a 1926 plan kept classrooms north of the water and sent th...

Q 05/05

Michigan State became a land-grant college in 1863 under which federal law, passed the year before?

A) Homestead Act

B) Northwest Ordinance

C) Hatch Act

D) Morrill Act

Answer · why

D) Morrill Act

Morrill Act. The law copied the college rather than the other way round: Michigan State, already eight years old, is regarded as the prototype for the...