Football
This Midwestern university's stadium, known as “The Big House,” is the largest in the U.S.
University of Michigan
This rectangular food was a Friday lunch staple in many public schools.
Cafeteria Pizza
In the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, five students spend detention in this school location.
the library
This was the name of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that declared school segregation unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This machine once used for copying handouts smelled like alcohol and purple ink.
mimeograph (or ditto machine)?
This award has been given annually since 1935 to the most outstanding college football player.
the Heisman Trophy
The National School Lunch Act was signed into law by this U.S. president.
Harry S. Truman
This 1972 musical set in a 1950s high school later became a hit film starring John Travolta.
Grease
This Cold War event in 1957 led to an increase in U.S. science and math education.
the launch of Sputnik
This classic school tool, now mostly replaced by calculators, helped students perform long division.
slide rule
In 2007, this FCS school stunned Michigan in one of college football’s greatest upsets.
Appalachian State
As First Lady, Michelle Obama launched this initiative to promote healthier school meals and fight childhood obesity.
“Let’s Move!”
This 1970s sitcom about a high school featured the phrase “Sit on it!”
Happy Days
In the 1950s, this practice involved hiding under desks during school drills in case of a nuclear attack.
“duck and cover”?
In penmanship class, students often practiced writing using this type of looped, flowing script.
Cursive or Palmer method
Knute Rockne delivered the famous “Win one for the Gipper” speech while coaching this school.
Notre Dame
These segmented plastic trays, often in pastel colors, were common in school cafeterias before the era of disposable lunch trays.
Melamine trays
This 1960s TV show starred a young Ron Howard as a student in Mayberry.
The Andy Griffith Show
Before Google, students often used these large, bound books filled with facts, often sold door-to-door. encyclopedias- name a brand of encyclopedia
Britannica was seen as more scholarly and used in libraries and schools.
World Book
Under this legendary coach, Nebraska won three national championships in the 1990s and became a college football dynasty.
Tom Osborne
This “mystery meat” dish was made with macaroni, beef, and tomato sauce.
goulash or American chop suey
This author’s novel To Sir, with Love was based on his experience teaching in a tough East London school.
E.R. Braithwaite
This former U.S. Secretary of Education famously said, "Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
William Bennett