Traditions
State Fair/ Austin Events
Football
Campus
Bevo!
100
The official fight song for UT Austin.
What is "Texas Fight"?
100
What is the name of the music festival held in Austin for two weeks every October (that also coincides with UT-OU weekend)?
What is Austin City Limits?
100
The full name of the UT Stadium. (hint- includes a name!)
What is Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium?
100
The year UT was founded.
What is the year 1883? With 40 acres of land, one building, eight teachers, two departments and 221 students. NOW, there is 357 acres and 120 buildings, home to more than 2,332 faculty, 15,000 staff members and close to 50,000 students!
100
The student organization that takes care of Bevo during his transportation and appearances.
What is The Sliver Spurs?
200
This was the occasion during which the UT colors orange and white were first used by students.
What is the first UT Baseball game?
200
What is the most common type of food at the state fair?
Fried Food
200
The first game of this season was on September 5th against this University.
What is Notre Dame?
200
This is how tall the is UT Tower (or number of stories).
301 ft tall (or 27 stories)
200
This was UT’s mascot before Bevo.
What is a dog named Pig?
300
Which famous UT alumni is famous for saying the phrase "Alright, alright, alright"?
matthew mcconaughey
300
What is the name of the giant statue at the Texas State Fair?
Big Tex
300
The name of “The Largest Bass Drum in the World” that accompanies the band during the UT football games.
What is Big Bertha? (It measures 8 feet in diameter, 54 inches in width and weighs 500 pounds!)
300
Begun in 1930 and continuing until the mid-1990s, this big spring event brings Texas Exes back to campus each year.
What is Round-Up?
300
What is Bevo named after?
A&M beat UT 13-0 in football and then branded that score onto our mascot. Students interpreted the 13 to a B,the - to an E, inserted a V and the 0 as a "O" to create BEVO.
400
This is the former yell leader (and later district judge) that invented the "Hook 'Em Horns" sign.
What is Harley Clark?
400
About how many people attend the Texas State Fair a year?
~3 million people every year
400
The year and before what game the tradition of the torchlight Parade began.
What is Before the Texas - Texas A&M game in 1916?
400
This is the date the name 'The University of Texas' officially changed to 'The University of Texas at Austin?
What is March 6, 1967?
400
This is what eventually happened to Bevo I.
What is he was the Main course at a UT football banquet?!
500
Describe the UT tower when Texas wins a national championship
The windows on the tower are lit up to form the number "1" and the tower is burnt orange
500
You have to answer these 3 questions to get all the points: Which city is closer to Dallas (Norman or Austin)? What is the rivalry called? Which city is better? BONUS: Distances between UT to the cotton bowl and OU to the cotton bowl?
Austin Red River Rivalry Austin UT - CB: 187 miles OU - CB: 202 miles
500
Which six players have had their jersey number retired? (Also say what those numbers are)
Colt Mccoy - 12 Vince Young - 10 Ricky Williams - 34 Earl Campbell - 20 Tommy Nobis - 60 Bobby Lane - 22
500
Her statue now stands behind the Union, symbolizing how one person's commitment to her beliefs can inspire and shape the world. She was elected as the first African-American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress and served as a professor at UT.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
500
The pep rally that occurs the week before UT plays A&M (thanksgiving now) & what happens?
Hex Rally - candles and torches are lit for UT spirit, was originally to jinx the Aggies from winning at Kyle field.
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