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100

This campus building is the newest of the three buildings named for Macon and Joan Brock.

What is Brock Hall?

100

RMC’s first campus was located in this town along the Virginia-North Carolina border.

What is Boydton, Virginia?

100

Randolph-Macon College’s 15th President

Who is Robert R. Lindgren

100

This annual event is said to mark the official start of spring at Randolph-Macon.

What is Fountain Turn On?

100

The RMC Men’s Basketball Team was crowned the NCAA Division III National Champions in this year.

What is 2022?

200

In 2021, the Japanese government donated a sculpture in the shape of this Japanese flower to RMC. 

What is a Sakura or cherry blossom?

200
In what year were the first female residential students admitted to Randolph-Macon College?

What is 1971?

200

This RMC Hall of Fame men’s soccer coach compiled a 417-242-66 (62.1%) record from 1962 through 2004.

Who is Helmut Werner?


200

Historically, new first-year students were known by this water-loving animal.

What is/are fish?

200

In 2014, Randolph-Macon economics professor David Brat unseated this prospective Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating him in the primary election for Virginia’s 7th District.

Who is Eric Cantor?

300

This building, which still stands today, was the first campus building constructed in Ashland.

What is Washington-Franklin Hall?

300

This religious studies professor was the first full-time female faculty member hired at Randolph-Macon.

Who is BJ Seymour?

300

This statue located on campus between the Library and Haley Hall depicts this man, the 11th President of Randolph-Macon College.

Who is J. Earl Moreland?

300

What historic College document must incoming students sign in order to be officially considered a student at RMC?

What is the Matriculation Book?

300

This veteran political reporter’s 2008 Commencement address at RMC was his last public appearance before his sudden death, two weeks later.

Who is Tim Russert?

400

These are the first names of the two men for whom Payne Hall, the College's nursing building, is named.

What are: Hap and Ladell?

400

The first iteration of "The Game" between Randolph-Macon and Hampden-Sydney took place in this year.

What is 1893?

400

This number of RMC alumni have served in the U.S. Congress, either as a member of the House, a member of the Senate, or both.

What is 12?

400

These two American trees are featured in the College's alma mater.

What are oaks and maples?

400

In 1910, this U.S. President stopped his train on the tracks next to Ashland's historic campus and encouraged RMC's faculty to allow the student body to attend the small college state championship football game against Hampden-Sydney, which was to be held on a day that classes met. 

Who is President William Howard Taft?

500

RMC’s Baseball stadium is named for this family, who owns a central Virginia trucking company.

Who is the Estes family?

500

Randolph-Macon College was the first institution south of the Mason-Dixon Line to require students to complete this type of coursework in order to graduate.

What is physical education?

500

He was the fifth Soeaker of the U.S. House of Representatives—and one of two namesakes for Randolph-Macon College.

Who is Nathanial Macon?

500

This annual event, held just prior to Commencement, celebrates the contributions of the College's diverse student body as they embark on their lives after RMC.

What is the multicultural graduation ceremony?

500

On November 21, 1969, this future music superstar performed at Crenshaw Gymnasium; his band—known as Child—played after each of two sets by another famous band, Chicago.

Who is Bruce Springsteen?

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