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 6:16 PM ^
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February 26th, 2015 at 6:47 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 6:58 PM ^
I came to this party late so all the correct answers have probably already been given. However, I promise I took the time to answer each one before I moved on to the comments.
- University of Minnesota is in Minneapolis-St. Paul (also could be University of Illinois, in Urbana-Champaign)
- UCLA and USC are both in Los Angeles
- The SEC -- Missouri and South Carolina are both in towns named Columbia
- The ACC -- I count 6 total: Boston College, Miami, Louisville, Syracuse, Clemson, and Pittsburgh (fun fact, only one of those is an original ACC member)
- The SEC -- Auburn in Auburn, AL
- Iowa, in Iowa City, IA
- The Big Ten has 7 -- 6 "traditional" names and one hyphenated name: Ann Arbor, College Park, East Lansing, State College, West Lafayette, Iowa City, and Urbana-Champaign -- EDIT: add New Brunswick to make 8
- Salt Lake City, UT (could also be Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)
- The Big 12 -- Austin (Texas), Normal (Oklahoma), Lawrence (Kansas)
- Ames, IA, home to Iowa State
- Winston-Salem, NC, home to Wake Forest
EDIT: I didn't realize that the official mailing address of Rutgers was New Brunswick. I always thought it was Piscataway. So make that eight Big Ten schools with cities with two names.
February 26th, 2015 at 8:01 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 8:53 PM ^
1. What school is officially located in two cities? (That’s an easy one to start with)
Illinois. [Well, which is it, Illinois or Minnesota?]
2. What two schools are located in the same city as each other.
USC and UCLA
3. Only conference where the cities of two schools have the same name (as an example -- Maintown NY and Maintown CA)
[False thing I thought when I mixed up Columbia and Columbus:] Would be the B1G if Missouri had joined us. I'm guessing there's another Columb[ia] out there in the SEC. (SCar?) [I feel like it's impressive I got this right given that I thought Missouri was in a town called Columbus.]
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)
I suspect Richmond has this property but they aren't P5. Same story for Toledo (which I'm more confident about). If you counted Berkeley, you'd also count UCLA, but I'm guessing neither count. IDK what conference Boise is in but the "State" bit should break it. Is Boston University P5? I finally just realized that Auburn has this property. And so does Miami. Boom. SEC. [Edit: Errr...ACC. I know things about things, I promise.]
5. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city
I think I've got 4 and 6 figured out as SEC and B1G so that leaves the ACC (AAC? IDK), B12, and PAC 12 (or whatever their number is now). Boston College might be in the ACC, so I'll go with that. [Obviously SEC when you fix 4.]
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)
Is Iowa in Iowa City? I think so.
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.
B1G has at least Ann Arbor, Champaign-Urbana, East Lansing, West Lafayette, Happy Valley (I'm not sure that's the actual city name, but for some reason I think the real name has two words, too [hooray it's State College]), Iowa City, and New Brunswick (I think). So I'm going with the B1G with 7. [College Park makes 8.]
8. What city has 3 words in its name
Minneapolis-St. Paul? This makes me worry about my answer to 1, but I think you wouldn't count it as one city. [Salt Lake City it is.]
9. What conference with 3 city names that are traditionally first names of males
I guess you could count Lincoln, but I don't know if we have two more. (There should be a question about president's names with Lincoln and Madison in the B1G...) [I guess I just gave up on this one.]
10. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is first alphabetically: Hint: It's not Ann Arbor.
I have no idea, but I'm getting bored so I will just observe that Anchorage comes before Ann Arbor and give up. [Bzzt.]
11. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is last alphabetically
West Lafayette would be too easy, but again, I'm bored now. [Bzzt.]
February 26th, 2015 at 8:56 PM ^
Thanks.
February 26th, 2015 at 9:04 PM ^
I don't have a good brain for trivia. Or critical thinking in general.
Actually I got about 5 of them, my trivia skills are usually pretty good.
February 26th, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^
Okay, without looking it up I think I got all but 8, 10, and 11 (and I'd keep trying but I'm late to be at the bar). Here goes:
1. What school is officially located in two cities? (That’s an easy one to start with)
Minnesota (Minneapolis and St. Paul)
2. What two schools are located in the same city as each other?
USC and UCLA (Los Angeles)
3. Only conference where the cities of two schools have the same name (as an example -- Maintown NY and Maintown CA)
umm..SEC?? - Missouri (Colombia) and South Carolina (Colombia)... I'm guessing on both of those ciies
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 - Syracuse and Louisville... does Pitt not count in this? I thought that it was technically the University of 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 Ten - 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 Ten - MSU - East Lansing, Iowa - Iowa City, Purdue - West Lafayette, Penn State - Happy Valley / State College (either way it's two words), Michigan - Ann Arbor, Minnesota - St. Paul (if that's right, not sure)... anyway that would be 6
8. What city has 3 words in its name
9. What conference with 3 city names that are traditionally first names of males?
Big 12 Texas - Austin, Oklahoma - Norman, and Kansas - Lawrence
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 27th, 2015 at 12:37 AM ^
This is what I came up with before I read other people's answers:
1. What school is officially located in two cities? (That’s an easy one to start with) Illinois
2. What two schools are located in the same city as each other. USC and UCLA
3. Only conference where the cities of two schools have the same name (as an example -- Maintown NY and Maintown CA) SEC - Columbia SC and MO
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 - Pitt, Louisville, Clemson, Boston College
5. What other conference has one school with the same name as its city SEC
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) B1G - Iowa City
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. B1G - College Park, Ann Arbor, East Lansing, West Lafayette, University Park, Iowa City
8. What city has 3 words in its name Salt Lake City
9. What conference with 3 city names that are traditionally first names of males Big 12 - Norman, Lawrence, Austin
10. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is first alphabetically: Hint: It's not Ann Arbor. Ames
11. Of all 64 P5 cities, which city's name is last alphabetically I got tired by this one and said Waco but I know this is wrong.