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What's your major?
100
When was WMU founded?
When was the year 1903
100
This WMU alumni is best known for his role on the show Home Improvement but is also known for the voice of Bud Lightyear in the Pixar movie, Toy Story.
Who is Tim Allen
100
What part of the WMU campus is said to curse any student who walks across it?
What is the W by the library
100
Who is current WMU football coach?
Who is Tim Lester
100
This airport hosts WMU's Aviation Flight Science program and allows students to learn and practice aviation.
What is W.K. Kellogg Airport, Battle Creek
200
Complete the lyrics. "Fight on fight on for Western; take the ball, ______________, win the game."
What is "make the score"
200
This WMU alumni is best known for helping fund and produce the movie titled The Evil Dead. He also starred in the TV show Burn Notice as former Navy Seal, Sam Axe.
Who is Bruce Campbell
200
A memorial to this famous animal sits outside of the WMU administration building. He/She was bred in Battle Creek and was born at the Oaklands, on WMU's campus, in 1895
Who is Peter the Great, a legendary racehorse.
200
What pre-game show broadcast by ESPN as part of the network's coverage of college football, broadcast on Saturday mornings during the college football season came to WMU this past fall?
What is College Game Day
200
This major is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. WMU has one of the top ten programs in North America.
What is Medieval Studies
300
Which WMU President's remains are buried in East Hall? Their ashes sit behind a plaque on the side of the building overlooking Davis.
Who is President Waldo?
300
This famous alumni played football at WMU and earned all-conference honors in 1988. He went on to play in the NFL and currently is an actor on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Who is Terry Crews
300
Before Buster, WMU had a different mascot- what was it?
What is The Hill Toppers
300
Whats the name of the student spirit group for the WMU Hockey team?
What is The Lawson Lunatics
300
Students who graduate from which WMU program are not required to take a separate holistic certification class after graduation? Holistics is incorporated into said program so when you pass the exam you will be state certified.
What is the Nursing Program
400
Who is the new Dean of the Lee Honors College?
Who is Gary Bischof, aka Amanda’s dad
400
This WMU alumni was a teacher, inventor and orthopedic surgeon. In 1916 he/she received their teaching degree from WMU and taught before fighting in WWI. They also founded a large corporation that is still around to this day.
Who is Homer Stryker
400
It is rumored that every time a _______ graduates from the university, a brick falls from the tower on east campus.
What is a virgin
400
The Cannon Trophy was established in 2008 between the student governments of CMU and WMU. It is named this because both teams fire off a cannon at their respective home fields when the make a score. Since 2008, how many times has WMU beat CMU and taken home the trophy?
What is 5 times
400
This undergraduate major is an interdisciplinary field that asks questions about gender and other socially constructed aspects of our identities. The learning and research focus on critical thinking and social transformation.
What is Gender and Women Studies
500
Western Michigan University has been through 5 names in the past. What was the first name for WMU?
What is Western State Normal School
500
This WMU grad graduated from western in 2011. He grew to become a very famous Vine star and is well known for his commentary on "smoking beer" and "door to door omelette salesman"
Who is Evan Breen
500
The colors of WMU represent what type of flower that used to thrive on WMU's original Prospect Hill campus?
What is brown-eyed Susans
500
This well-known professional athlete, played for the Minnesota Vikings is a graduate of Kalamazoo Central High School. He is also a proud WMU graduate.
Who is Greg Jennings
500
Western Michigan offers 4 foreign language majors. What are they?
What are Japanese, French, German and Latin.
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