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Grab Bag: Fun Facts
100

This college's name before it became Vermont State University

What is Northern Vermont University?

100

The athletic division of this campus

What is DIII?

100

What Vermonters call "soft serve" ice cream

What is a creemee?

100

The number of campuses VTSU has

What is 5?

100

Tony Award-winning musical about the founder of the U.S. Treasury

What is "Hamilton?"

200

Dewey Hall is named after this Vermont educator born in 1859

Who is John Dewey?

200

The name of VTSU Johnson's mascot

Who is Boris the Badger?

200

The ski resort closest to Johnson campus


What is Smuggler's Notch?

200

The name of the weekly calendar Student Life sends via email

Where is the Fun (WTF)?

200

Country in which Winter 2026 Olympics will be held

What is Italy?

300

The year VTSU was formed

What is 2023?

300

VTSU Johnson's Head Athletic Trainer

Who is Kate Harney?

300

Vermont's first openly LGBTQ+ AND first female Congressional Representative (VT's current Representative)

Who is Becca Balint?

300

The GPA you need to maintain to remain in Good Academic Standing (if you have fewer than 30 credits)

What is 1.75?

300

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to this singer-songwriter

Who is Bob Dylan?

400

This famous singer received an honorary degree here in 2019

Who is Cyndi Lauper?

400

This VTSU Johnson team broke several school records in 2025

What is Track & Field?

400

Vermont's state bird

What is the hermit thrush?

400

The number of "areas of study" the Interdisciplinary Studies degree requires

What is three?

400

How old actress Shirley Henderson was when she played Moaning Myrtle in "Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets"

What is 37?

500

The year this campus was founded 

What is 1828?

500

This team won VTSU Johnson's Team of the Year in 2025

What is women's soccer?

500

A statue of this goddess stands atop the Vermont Statehouse's golden dome

Who is Ceres?

500

Total number of students who graduated from all VTSU campuses in 2025 (rough estimate)

~1,400

500

This aquatic creature is native to lakes in the Mexican Central Valley and can regenerate lost appendages

What is axolotl?

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