Q 01/05

Which 1990s disaster film modelled its research crew on University of Oklahoma graduate students the director had met?

A) Volcano

B) Twister

C) Dante's Peak

D) Armageddon

Answer · why

B) Twister

Twister also leaned on a federal storm laboratory in Norman, which trained the crew in weather safety and took the actors along on a tornado chase.

Q 02/05

Which famous architect coined the term Cherokee Gothic for the buildings of the University of Oklahoma campus?

A) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

B) Louis Sullivan

C) Frank Lloyd Wright

D) Philip Johnson

Answer · why

C) Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright made the remark on a visit to Norman, and it stuck to a style that mixes Gothic Revival stonework with Native American elements.

Q 03/05

The tune of Boomer Sooner, the University of Oklahoma fight song, was borrowed from which Ivy League school?

A) Harvard

B) Cornell

C) Brown

D) Yale

Answer · why

D) Yale

Yale's Boola Boola supplied the melody in 1905, when student Arthur Alden wrote the Oklahoma words, and a section from a North Carolina song was added...

Q 04/05

What did the University of Oklahoma's first president, David Ross Boyd, plant by the thousand on campus?

A) Roses

B) Trees

C) Wheat

D) Hedges

Answer · why

B) Trees

Trees were his own purchase: Boyd bought saplings from a bankrupt Kansas nursery and reportedly planted nearly 10,000 in his first 18 months.

Q 05/05

The settlers nicknamed Sooners, who gave University of Oklahoma teams their name, were known for doing what in 1889?

A) Arriving after the rush

B) Selling maps to settlers

C) Staking claims too early

D) Guarding the starting line

Answer · why

C) Staking claims too early

Staking claims too early could cost a settler the land, because the proclamation opening the territory barred anyone who entered before the official n...