Q 01/05

San Jose State once ran a southern branch campus, opened in 1882, that grew into which famous university?

A) USC

B) Caltech

C) UCLA

D) UC Irvine

Answer · why

C) UCLA

UCLA began as a Los Angeles branch run from San Jose until 1887, created after a failed attempt to move the whole school south.

Q 02/05

San Jose State sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists on an Olympic podium at Games held where?

A) Los Angeles

B) Montreal

C) Melbourne

D) Mexico City

Answer · why

D) Mexico City

Mexico City hosted the 1968 Games, where Smith had just won sprint gold in world-record time and Carlos bronze. San Jose State later gave both men hon...

Q 03/05

San Jose State's football team, stranded in Hawaii by the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, was put to work for whom?

A) The US Navy

B) Honolulu's police

C) The Red Cross

D) The Territorial Guard

Answer · why

B) Honolulu's police

Honolulu's police employed the players to help shore up island defences and guard bases. The team had only just arrived for post-season games.

Q 04/05

Which San Jose State engineering graduate has won Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island over a dozen times?

A) Joey Chestnut

B) Takeru Kobayashi

C) Matt Stonie

D) Patrick Bertoletti

Answer · why

A) Joey Chestnut

Joey Chestnut broke into competitive eating as a San Jose State student in 2005, at a deep-fried asparagus championship.

Q 05/05

Krazy George Henderson, a cheerleader at San Jose State from 1968, is often credited with inventing which crowd move?

A) The tomahawk chop

B) The Viking clap

C) The stadium wave

D) The Gator chomp

Answer · why

C) The stadium wave

The stadium wave, by his account, first went round a ballpark at an Oakland Athletics playoff game in 1981, led by George and his hand drum.