WCU Facts
This is the year that Western Carolina University was founded.
What is 1889?
This party currently controls the NC General Assembly.
What is the Republican Party?
This is the number of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
This U.S. President was the only one to serve more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is the smallest U.S. state by land area.
What is Rhode Island?
The name of WCU's world-renowned marching band.
What is Pride of the Mountain?
This is the number of elected officials who serve on NC's Council of State.
What is ten?
This amendment to the Constitution established the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
The first Democratic President to serve two full terms after FDR.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This is the national sport of Japan.
What is sumo wrestling?
This is the name of the river that runs through Cullowhee.
What is the Tuckaseegee River?
This person is the current Lt. Governor of NC.
Who is Rachel Hunt?
This is the total number of electors in the Electoral College.
What is 538?
This U.S. Senator conducted the longest one-person filibuster in history.
Who is Cory Booker?
This actor played the character Alan in Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023).
Who is Michael Cera?
This is the original name of WCU when it was founded.
What is Cullowhee Academy?
This NC city hosted the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
What is Charlotte?
This was the first U.S. President to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
She was the 1984 Democratic nominee for Vice President, becoming the first woman on a major party ticket.
Who is Geraldine Ferraro?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the year that WCU Men's Basketball won its only Southern Conference Tournament Championship.
What is 1996?
This is the year that North Carolina symbolically ratified the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
What is 1971?
This is the year that the U.S. House of Representatives first exceeded 435 members before being capped at that number.
This former U.S. Senator from North Carolina became the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004.
Who is John Edwards?
This U.S. President kept a pet raccoon named Rebecca.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?