Memphis Athletics
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Memphis Pop Culture
100
What is the name of the only one-armed professional baseball player who got this start playing for the Memphis Chicks?
Who is Pete Gray
100
Name the World's First Self-Serve Grocery Store that opened in Memphis in 1916.
What is The Piggly Wiggly
100
What year was the first Frosh camp held?
What is 1994
100
What is the name of the University of Memphis yearbook that stopped publication?
What is The DeSoto
100
While living in Memphis Tennessee, this famous inventor developed a device to electrocute cockroaches.
Who is Thomas Edison
200
What Memphis- born sportswriter coined the phrase "It doesn't matter whether you won or lost, but how you played the game"?
Who is Grantland Rice
200
In what year was St. Jude Children's Research Hospital founded?
What is 1962
200
Which of the following is a place you can go dancing in Memphis: a. Flirt b. Wallflower c. Salsa d. Democrat
What is a. Flirt
200
What world-famous institution is home to the University of Memphis and does not exist in any other school in the South?
What is The Confucius Institute
200
FedEx ironically spent $0 in this 2000 film:
What is Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks
300
Averaging 17 points per game, who was the Men's Basketball leading scorer in the 2005-2006 season?
Who is Rodney Carney
300
The Hunt-Phelan Home on Beale Street was once used by this famous Civil War General as his headquarters.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
300
Which of these was NOT a top news story in 1995- the year traditionally aged students in the class of 2017 were born: a. The Million Man March drew black men to the capital b. A massacre in Rwanda, where Hutus killed 800,000 Tutsis c. The Oklahoma City federal building was bombed
What is b. The Massacre in Rwanda, where Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis
300
In what year did the University of Memphis its first African American students?
What is 1959
300
Justin Timberlake has won 2 Emmys and how many Grammys?
What is 6
400
What was the name of the first Memphis Negro baseball team?
What is The Memphis Red Sox
400
What famous hotel was founded in Memphis in 1952?
What is The Holiday Inn
400
Who is the SGA president?
Who is Ricky Kirby
400
What is the current general assembly number for this year's SGA?
What is the 60th General Assembly
400
America's third largest Planetarium is in Memphis. Where is it located?
What is The Pink Palace
500
Name the person whose silhouette is used for the NBA's logo.
Who is Jerry West, former General Manager of the Memphis Grizzlies
500
Memphis is the only five time winner of this city award:
What is The Cleanest City Award
500
Where is Frosh Camp held?
What is Nacome Conference Center in Pleasantville, TN
500
Which building on campus was once used as a train station?
What is The Administration Building
500
Memphis is home to how many Fortune 500 Companies?
What is 9
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