Q 01/05

Portland State design student Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 in 1971 to draw which company's logo?

A) Adidas

B) Nike

C) Puma

D) Reebok

Answer · why

B) Nike

Nike co-founder Phil Knight, who was teaching accounting at Portland State, hired her after overhearing that she could not afford oil painting supplie...

Q 02/05

Jack Ely, who attended Portland State while playing in the Kingsmen, sang lead on which garbled 1963 hit?

A) Louie Louie

B) Wild Thing

C) Wooly Bully

D) Surfin' Bird

Answer · why

A) Louie Louie

Louie Louie came out slurred partly because Ely was wearing braces and shouting to be heard over the instruments in a rudimentary studio.

Q 03/05

Larry Harvey, who attended Portland State, co-founded which festival that began on a San Francisco beach?

A) Coachella

B) Lollapalooza

C) Burning Man

D) Bonnaroo

Answer · why

C) Burning Man

Burning Man started in 1986 when Harvey and a friend burned a wooden figure on Baker Beach; it moved to Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.

Q 04/05

Portland State's student union honors Michael J. Smith, a star of its unbeaten 1965 team on which TV quiz show?

A) University Challenge

B) It's Academic

C) Quiz Kids

D) College Bowl

Answer · why

D) College Bowl

College Bowl aired nationally on NBC, and Portland State won five straight weeks to retire as champions with a record points total.

Q 05/05

Portland State founder Stephen Epler invented which scaled-down sport for small Nebraska high schools in 1934?

A) Six-man football

B) Slow-pitch softball

C) Half-court basketball

D) Indoor baseball

Answer · why

A) Six-man football

Six-man football let Depression-era schools too small for a standard eleven-player squad field a team; the first game drew a crowd of almost 1,000.