OT: Slow afternoon trivia quiz for you -- Power 5 Conf City Names
TRIVIA -- If you have a while to kill, why not do some meaningless trivia. How well do you know all of the cities of the universities of the five power conferences? Don't go to the Interwebs to answer these, see if you can figure out the answers yourself. It's not that easy -- unless you are totally geeked up, you'll find yourself forgetting the names of cities you know you should know (like, I couldn't remember the cities for Univ. of Oklahoma or Univ. of Arizona, and I flat-out didn't know Rutger's location).
These questions refer just to the main campuses, not satellite or regional campuses (e.g. Ann Arbor, not Flint). And by "city," it means, city, town, village, whatever, the official address of the university's main campus.
1. What school is officially located in two cities? (That’s an easy one to start with)
2. What two schools are located in the same city as each other.
3. Only conference where the cities of two schools have the same name (as an example -- Maintown NY and Maintown CA)
4. Only conference where two schools and their cities each have the same names as each other (as an example -- Smith University in Smith, NY)
5. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city
6. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city, except that the city has the word “City” appended to it (as an example – Smith University and Smith City, NY)
7. What conference has the most number of cities with 2 words in each city name (example of a city name with two words: “Main City”), and how many are there in that conference.
8. What city has 3 words in its name
9. What conference with 3 city names that are traditionally first names of males
10. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is first alphabetically: Hint: It's not Ann Arbor.
11. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is last alphabetically
February 26th, 2015 at 5:21 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 5:28 PM ^
Your avatar was my expression =/
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February 26th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 6:16 PM ^
actually versus Carol.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:06 PM ^
You're right and wrong. Chestnut Hill isn't a real city; it's a "village" under Massachusetts law which means it's not actually incorporated and is more of a traditional designation. Chestnut Hill is actually part of three different cities. Boston College itself straddles Boston and Newton, not to mention having a separate section of campus in a third city (I forget which, but it's in fact a part of BC itself and not along the lines of a U-M Dearborn) so technically speaking, not only does it count towards sharing the name of the city it's in, it also counts toward the question about being in two cities at once.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:17 PM ^
#1 is Univ of Illinois, isn't it? Champaign & Urbana, IL?
#4 would be the ACC, but with SYRACUSE (Syracuse, NY) and CLEMSON (Clemson, SC).
February 26th, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^
I don't even know #1, the "easy one." I don't think I know any of these.
February 26th, 2015 at 5:50 PM ^
As a college football fan I feel I should know the answers, the exact same feeling I had in a few midterms back in college....
February 26th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
10. Abilene, TX - TCU?
11. West Lafayette, IN - Purdue?
February 26th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
Ha! so TCU is in Fort Worth. Was thinking of Abilene Christian U, obviously.
I was way off... I'll go to my corner now.
February 26th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
TCU's in Fort Worth
February 26th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^
1) UI in Chambana
2) USC/UCLA in LA
3) SEC (Columbia GA, Columbia SC EDIT: MO not GA)
4) ACC (Pitt and Lousiville and Cuse?)
5) uh, one of the ones in 4?
6) Iowa City
7) B 10 .. EL, IC, WL, Chambanan, EDIT: Oh, and State College
8) Minne-st paul
9) B12
10) Auburn/Athens/godammit
11) Tuscon
February 26th, 2015 at 5:51 PM ^
I feel like these questions haven't kept up with the changing conferences?
#7 I think you can add College Park, MD and St Paul, MN
#8 I'd go with Salt Lake City for Utah
#11 There's gotta be one that starts with W right?
February 26th, 2015 at 6:04 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 6:08 PM ^
See, and I thought it was the other way around, with UofI in Champaign, and Minny in both cities.
Wikipedia confirms that BOTH straddle both cities:
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minnesota, U of M, or The U) is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
The campus holds 647 buildings on 4,552 acres (1,842 ha)[10] in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (together known as Champaign–Urbana); its annual operating budget in 2011 was over $1.7 billion.
February 26th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 10:02 PM ^
10. has to be Ames, Iowa methinks.
February 26th, 2015 at 5:52 PM ^
8. Salt Lake City - Where we start the Harbaugh era!
February 26th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
Michfan84 got the first 5.
1. What school is officially located in two cities?
University of Minnesota
2. What two schools are located in the same city as each other.
USC/UCLA
3. Only conference where the cities of two schools have the same name (as an example -- Maintown NY and Maintown CA)
SEC (Mizzou/South Carolina)
4. Only conference where two schools and their cities each have the same names as each other (as an example -- Smith University in Smith, NY)
ACC, but there are a bunch: Boston College, Syracuse, Miami, Louisville, Pittsburgh,
5. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city
SEC (Auburn)
6. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city, except that the city has the word “City” appended to it (as an example – Smith University and Smith City, NY)
Big 10: Iowa
7. What conference has the most number of cities with 2 words in each city name (example of a city name with two words: “Main City”), and how many are there in that conference.
Big 10, with 5: East Lansing, West Lafayette, Iowa City, College Park, State College
8. What city has 3 words in its name
Salt Lake City (Utah)
9. What conference with 3 city names that are traditionally first names of males
Big 12 - Norman, Austin, Lawrence
10. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is first alphabetically: Hint: It's not Ann Arbor.
Ames, Iowa - home of Iowa State
11. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is last alphabetically
Wake Forest's hometown: Winston-Salem
February 26th, 2015 at 5:49 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
I would add St. Paul to the list in #7 because HELL YEAH BIG TEN!!!
Also, dammit I could not think where Wake Forest was
February 26th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Unfortunately, I have to fail you for leaving off the greatest university in the history of history in your answer to #7.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:00 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
Also New Brunwick (and yes, I had to google that).
February 27th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
I thought Rutgers was in Piscataway. Oops.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:19 PM ^
You left off Clemson, SC for #4.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:19 PM ^
You left off Clemson, SC for #4.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^
Here are my answers:
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| UCLA and USC (Los Angeles) |
| SEC - Columbia, SC and Columbia, MO |
| ACC actually has 6! Louisville,Clemson, Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, Miami |
| SEC - Auburn |
| Big Ten: Iowa / Iowa City |
| Big Ten: Ann Arbor, Iowa City, State College, College Park, New Brunswick, West Lafayette, East Lansing; doesn't include Minneapolis-St. Paul and Urbana-Champaign |
| Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Big 12: Norman (OU), Austin (UT), Lawrence (KU) |
| Ames, IA (Iowa State) |
| Winston-Salem, NC (Wake Forest) |
I didn't cheat, I promise.
the only ones I can't recall are where Arkansas is, and the one school in the Big 12 I can't think of. I got UT, OU, KU, KSU, ISU, WVU, TT, Baylor, and TCU. What's the last one?
EDIT: someone above mentioned suburbs. Good point. I think BC and Miami are both in suburbs, so I'm worng about that one. Miami is in Coral Gables, I believe. And BC is in Chestnut Hill or something like that? I'm sure about Pitt and Clemson, and pretty sure Louisville is in the same city, as is Syracuse.
Also pretty sure UofI is in Champaign, but includes the name of the neighboring town, Urbana. Minnesota actually does span the Mississippi River and is officially in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^
OSU
February 26th, 2015 at 6:09 PM ^
Ah, thanks. and Okie State in... wait, let me look that up. Stillwater.
Also, I thought TCU was in Dallas, not Ft Worth. Doesn't affect the responses, but oops on that, too. Baylor I know is in Waco b/c I watch Fixer Upper on HGTV every now and then.
EDIT: Also added in a comment above, but both Minnesota (Minneapolis and St. Paul) and Illinois (Urbana and Champaign) are in two cities.
February 27th, 2015 at 5:35 AM ^
I'm a Minnesota alum.
Minnesota has two seperate campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul separated by about 2 miles.
The Minneapolis campus spans the Mississippi and therefore is referred to as the east and west banks. It has a glass enclosed pedestrian bridge above the highway bridge so you that you don't freeze to death when crossing it during the winter (It negates the wind chill). Typically every winter it gets to -25 at some point.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:00 PM ^
Bet you don't know what P5 team has the most players with the same name as US Presidents (Washington, Adams, Johnson, Taylor, etc.). I do and I'm not telling you.
February 26th, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^
2. USC and UCLA (Los Angeles)
3. SEC - Missouri and South Carolina (Columbia)
4. ACC (Louisville, Clemson, Syracuse, Pitt, Miami)
5. SEC (Auburn)
6. B1G (Iowa City)
7. B1G (AA, EL, UC, WL, CP, SC, IC)
8. Salt Lake City (Utah)
9. Big 12 (Norman, Austin, Lawrence)
10. Iowa State (Ames)
11. Purdue (West Lafayette)
