LANDMARKS
CORPS OF CADETS
TRADITIONS
TRIVIA
TAMU PRESIDENTS
100
Visitors who stand inside the portals looking outward are facing the direction of the home towns of the 12 students who died
What is the Bonfire Memorial?
100
The A&M Fish Drill Team performed at the beginning of this movie
What is A Few Good Men?
100
Started by Pinky Downs at a 1930 Midnight Yell Practice
What is Gig 'Em?
100
An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do
What is the Aggie Code of Honor?
100
Former Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense
Who is Robert Gates?
200
Site of former President George H.W. Bush's parachute jumps to celebrate his 75th and his 80th birthdays
What is Easterwood Airport?
200
Oldest student-run organization in the state and Honor Guard for the Governor of Texas
Who are the Ross Volunteers?
200
Initiated by Coach Dana X. Bible on January 2, 1922
What is the Twelfth Man?
200
A number of Aggies work for Pixar, and because of this, a building in Monsters University is a replica of this TAMU building
What is the Academic Building?
200
Former Governor of Texas, Confederate Army general, and Texas Ranger - he personally interviewed all prospective students
Who was Lawrence Sullivan Ross?
300
Site of numerous marriage proposals, weddings, and photographs - considered a symbol of strength and loyalty
What is the Century Tree?
300
First brought to Texas A&M in January 1931 by a group from the Corps of Cadets
Who is Reveille?
300
First held in 1954 and now held in Palestine
What is Fish Camp?
300
"Survivors" of Bear Bryant's 10 day summer camp in 1954
Who are the Junction Boys?
300
He made membership in the Corps of Cadets optional and allowed women and African Americans to attend
Who was James Earl Rudder?
400
Originally established in 1942 as the Bryan Air Force Base
What is Riverside Campus?
400
Unofficial mascot, first seen in the 1940s, portrarayed as a tough-looking drill sargeant
What is Ol' Sarge?
400
Juniors are the first class to be allowed to say this word
What is Whoop?
400
The onset of this in 1998 led to a temporary national shortage of maroon t-shirts
What is Maroon Out?
400
Fled Cuba in 1961 with her family and years later served as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
Who is Elsa Murano?
500
Dedicated on October 6, 1984 and includes a time capsule to be opened on TAMU's 200th anniversary in 2076
What is the Albritton Bell Tower?
500
Production ceased during World War II due to the rationing of leather
What are Senior Boots?
500
Some of their maneuvers are so complex that some computer programs say they can't be performed because they require two people to be in the same place at the same time
What is the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band?
500
1963 and 1999
What are the only two years Bonfire was built on campus, but did not burn?
500

Current President of Texas A&M University

Who is Mark Welsh?

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