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100
He was the first president of Mississippi State University.
Who was Stephen D. Lee?
100
These are the traditional colors of Mississippi State University.
What are maroon and white?
100
What were the earlier two names of Mississippi State University?
What were the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi and Mississippi State College?
100
Located on the Drill Field and built in 1909, this building now houses English, Foreign Languages, the President's office, and the Provost's office.
What is Lee Hall?
100
This type of institution is warm and welcoming to all kinds of people, regardless of wealth, status, social class, gender, ethnicity, or race.
What is "The People's University"?
200
He was the coach for the legendary 1963 basketball team.
Who was Babe McCarthy?
200
This symbol, which started to appear at football games about 75 years ago and was banned for about 35 years until 2010, should never be utilized while plays are occurring.
What is the cowbell?
200
Unlike other universities in the state and across the South, this occurred peacefully beginning in 1965.
What was integration at MSU?
200
It was built in 1965 with the bricks from the Old Main Dormitory, and it has a bell tower that rings every hour.
What is the Chapel of Memories?
200
These are the four overriding themes in the history of MSU.
What are warm and welcoming inclusion of everyone, service, expansion, and research?
300
He was a legendary MSU teacher and administrator after whom the auditorium in Lee Hall was named.
Who was John K. Bettersworth?
300
These were MSU's nicknames before we officially became the Bulldogs in 1961.
What are "Aggies" and "Maroons"?
300
This entire group of students was banned from attending MSU from 1912 until the 1930's following a student riot in protest of harsh restrictions.
What were women at MSU?
300
This building housed over 1,100 students and burned down in a mysterious fire in 1959.
What is the Old Main Dormitory?
300
This type of educational institution grants a significant number of graduate degrees.
What is a university?
400
He was the first African American student at MSU.
Who was Richard Holmes?
400
This is the prime MSU tailgating area that is located by Davis Wade Stadium; it was the past converging point of 5 different snarled roads.
What is the Junction?
400
These students wore gray uniforms, participated in mandatory military training, were required to work, and had to buy and carry their own coal for heat.
What is the first class of students at MSU?
400
It is the oldest surviving building on campus and has twin towers.
What is the Industrial Education Building?
400
This is MSU's alma mater.
What is "Maroon and White"?
500
He was the courageous and honorable president of Mississippi State University when the university was integrated.
Who was Dean Colvard?
500
This unique baseball tradition has evolved over the years into an astonishing array of jerry-rigged “vehicles” that are towed in and out each season and have simple to elaborate seating areas atop them.
What is the Left Field Lounge?
500
This is the date that the Mississippi Legislature authorized the building of a new college and created Mississippi State University.
What is 1878?
500
It is the oldest surviving "structure" on campus.
What is Eckie's Pond?
500
Signed into law in the Morrill Act by Abraham Lincoln, it provides land in every state to provide higher education in agriculture, mechanical arts (engineering), military science, and associated academic subjects.
What is a land grant institution?
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