Q 01/05

Virginia Tech's HokieBird, whose student performers stay anonymous until graduation, is modeled on which bird?

A) Cardinal

B) Eagle

C) Turkey

D) Falcon

Answer · why

C) Turkey

A turkey has been the model since a college employee trained a live one to pull a cart before a 1913 football game. Performers reveal themselves at co...

Q 02/05

Which Metallica song has played as the Virginia Tech football team runs onto the field at Lane Stadium since 2000?

A) Enter Sandman

B) Master of Puppets

C) Seek & Destroy

D) Fade to Black

Answer · why

A) Enter Sandman

Enter Sandman got its jumping crowd in 2001, when a marching band member started bouncing to it and his bandmates joined in. The ritual later spread t...

Q 03/05

Which Virginia Tech quarterback played for the national title as a freshman and went first in the 2001 NFL draft?

A) Tyrod Taylor

B) Logan Thomas

C) Bryan Randall

D) Michael Vick

Answer · why

D) Michael Vick

Michael Vick became the first African-American quarterback taken with the top pick when the Atlanta Falcons chose him. In his first college game he ra...

Q 04/05

Virginia Tech's main campus, laid out around the oval Drillfield, lies in which town in Montgomery County, Virginia?

A) Lexington

B) Blacksburg

C) Charlottesville

D) Harrisonburg

Answer · why

B) Blacksburg

Blacksburg began as a grid of 16 blocks that William Black laid out on his family's land in 1797, three quarters of a century before the college opene...

Q 05/05

Virginia Tech dropped its original black and gray colors because the athletic uniforms made players look like what?

A) Prisoners

B) Undertakers

C) Referees

D) Chimney sweeps

Answer · why

A) Prisoners

Prisoners wore similar drab outfits, so an 1896 committee chose burnt orange and Chicago maroon instead, a pairing that no other college was using.