How much do you know about Georgia Tech? Take this quiz to test your smarts.
Questions
1. Which two world leaders sang the Tech fight song in 1959?
2. When was the first GT vs. UGA football game?
3. Who did broadcaster Al Cirado nickname “The Young Left-Hander”?
4. When did the Ramblin' Wreck debut?
5. Where did Jimmy Carter sit when he attended the Tech-Navy football game in 1977?
6. When did Tech athletes first wear white and gold?
7. What 1996 Olympic event did the Alexander Coliseum host?
8. How did Wrong Way Riegels get his name?
9. What is written on a rat cap?
10. Who is George P. Burdell?
11. How many staff members were employed at Tech when it was founded?
12. Of the 129 students in Tech’s first class, only one was not from Georgia. Where was he from?
13. What was Tech President Lyman Hall’s annual salary in 1896?
14. Who built Bobby Dodd Stadium/Grant Field in 1905?
15. Who was tech playing in 1973 when the largest crowd to ever attend a football game on Tech’s campus was recorded?
16. What was John Heisman’s yearly salary when he was hired to coach Tech football in 1903?
17. How much did the first official Ramblin’ Wreck car cost?
18. How many times has Tech gone undefeated in a football season?
19. What kind of dog did Heisman keep as a pet?
20. Who was the first American president to deliver a speech on campus?
21. What was the students’ favorite off-campus gathering spot in the 1920s?
22. What was the motto on Tech’s original seal?
23. What is Bruin?
24. What were Bruin’s favorite drinks?
25. Which popular star appeared on the cover of the 1952 media guide in a Georgia Tech sweater?
26. What was the original name of Frank Gordy’s Varsity restaurant?
27. What political figure spoke at Tech in front of the then-largest crowd in Atlanta history?
Answers
1. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev.
2. 1943 (Tech won, 28-6).
3. Kim King.
4. September 30, 1961, when the 1930 Model-A Ford led the Tech football team onto the field to face Rice University.
5. President Carter, who attended both Tech and the U.S. Naval Academy, sat in Tech's seats for the first two quarters and switched seats at halftime.
6. 1891.
7. Boxing.
8. In the 1929 Tech-California Rose Bowl, Riegels, a Bruins center recovered a fumble and ran 64 yards . . . in the wrong direction.
9. Freshmen write Tech's winning football scores right side up, losing scores (if any) upside down, and tie scores (if any) sideways. Co-ops circle the button on top. Students' names, hometowns, and graduation year go on the underside of the bill.
10. A mythical student who began appearing on class rosters in 1927.
11. 10
12. Chattanooga, Tennessee
13. $3,000
14. Students at Tech
15. Georgia
16. $2,250 plus 30 percent of the gate
17. $1,000
18. Nine
19. A poodle named Woo
20. Theodore Roosevelt in 1905
21. Tom Pitts' cigar shop
22. To Know, To Do, To Be
23. Football player Jack “Stumpy” Thomason’s pet bear
24. Beer and Coca Cola
25. Marilyn Monroe
26. The Yellow Jacket
27. Franklin Delano Roosevelt