Q 01/05

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum displays Comanche, a cavalry horse famed for surviving which battle?

A) Little Bighorn

B) Wounded Knee

C) Palo Duro Canyon

D) Gettysburg

Answer · why

A) Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn left Comanche badly wounded, and soldiers found him two days after the fighting. When he died years later he was preserved, and the mou...

Q 02/05

During a 1950s steel shortage, the University of Kansas kept building Allen Fieldhouse by classing it as what?

A) A hospital

B) An armory

C) A fallout shelter

D) An aircraft hangar

Answer · why

B) An armory

An armory was the loophole: federal rules restricted steel use, so officials added rooms for gun and weapons storage and work on the arena carried on.

Q 03/05

Kansas Jayhawks students made the Allen Fieldhouse banner warning of 'the Phog' from which dormitory items?

A) Bed sheets

B) Dining tablecloths

C) Shower curtains

D) Mattress covers

Answer · why

C) Shower curtains

Shower curtains from the dorms became the 1988 original, a slogan inspired partly by ads for a horror film. The first banner is kept in the Booth Fami...

Q 04/05

James Naismith, who invented basketball and founded the Kansas Jayhawks program, is its only head coach with what?

A) An unbeaten season

B) A 30-win season

C) A national title

D) A losing record

Answer · why

D) A losing record

A losing record of 55–60 belongs only to the game's inventor. Kansas hired him in 1898 as a chapel director and physical-education instructor, not as ...

Q 05/05

Student cartoonist Henry Maloy gave the first drawn University of Kansas Jayhawk in 1912 which human accessory?

A) Spectacles

B) Mittens

C) Shoes

D) Spurs

Answer · why

C) Shoes

Shoes were there for kicking opponents, Maloy explained. His newspaper cartoon was the first to settle what the mythical bird would look like.