Q 01/05

Which Delaware, Ohio school hosted Ohio State's first football game?

A) Kenyon College

B) Ohio Wesleyan

C) Ohio Northern

D) Wittenberg

Answer · why

B) Ohio Wesleyan

Ohio Wesleyan hosted the game on May 3, 1890, and Ohio State won 20-14; that fall the Buckeyes lost their first home game 64-0 to Wooster.

Q 02/05

Ohio Stadium, which opened in 1922, is best known by what nickname?

A) The Big House

B) The Horseshoe

C) The Swamp

D) The Coliseum

Answer · why

B) The Horseshoe

The Horseshoe opened to doubts that 66,000 seats could ever be filled, yet more than 70,000 packed in for the 1922 dedication game, which Michigan won...

Q 03/05

The rotunda at the north end of Ohio Stadium was designed to resemble the dome of which ancient building?

A) The Colosseum

B) Hagia Sophia

C) The Pantheon

D) The Parthenon

Answer · why

C) The Pantheon

The Pantheon was among the Roman buildings architect Howard Dwight Smith had visited and sketched as a young man; his stadium design won an American I...

Q 04/05

Which future pro football team founder coached Ohio State to its first national championship in 1942?

A) Wes Fesler

B) Francis Schmidt

C) Woody Hayes

D) Paul Brown

Answer · why

D) Paul Brown

Paul Brown was a high-school coach two years earlier: Ohio State hired him from Massillon Washington, where his teams had won six straight state champ...

Q 05/05

Which phrase became shorthand for Woody Hayes's attack at Ohio State?

A) The greatest show on turf

B) Basketball on grass

C) Three yards and a cloud of dust

D) Thunder and lightning

Answer · why

C) Three yards and a cloud of dust

'Three yards and a cloud of dust' fit a coach who ran his fullbacks into the line; Hayes was often quoted as saying three things can happen when you p...