College Sports Crossovers
Name three colleges whose mascot does not end with an S.
Stanford Cardinal, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Alabama Crimson Tide, Tulane Green Wave, Navy Midshipmen, NC State Wolfpack, etc.
An orange-colored school in the state in which the first Civil War shots were fired and a school located in a city whose name translates to "Red Stick"
Tigers (Clemson, LSU)
A key figure in the US Revolutionary era, this former president founded a university that is currently in the ACC. However, despite holding truths to be self-evident, he held over 600 slaves during his lifetime, released less than 10 of them, and is believed by historians to have raped them on multiple occasions.
Thomas Jefferson
Armando Perez has the football stadium of a Miami-based university named after him. Of his top 10 songs on Spotify, eight of them feature another artist. At the beginning of each song, he often states his zip code and his nickname that implies he is well-versed in travel. What is his stage name?
Pitbull
Vince Vaughn’s team in an underdog story decides they want to recruit a former Super Bowl winning quarterback that shares a last name with a top-5 largest US state by land mass.
Average Joe Montana
In the US, there is only one city that hosts two different universities that both compete in a football power 5 conference. Name the city AND the two schools.
Los Angeles (UCLA, USC)
A school named after an intermerdiate cardinal direction and a school that is located in the only state whose name appears on the "top 30 biggest US fast-food chains" list.
Wildcats (Northwestern University, Kentucky University)
The only university named after a former US president to win a March Madness game in the last five years.
James Madison University
Tramar Dillard had a Billboard #1 song in both 2007 and 2009. Both songs contain a direction in the title. What is his stage name, that he (sort of) shares with a US state?
Flo Rida
Fictional African-American boxer decides that instead of fighting someone with a geological nickname, he wants to work at the desk across from Meredith at Dunder Mifflin.
Apollo Creed Bratton
Since the College Football Playoff expanded to four teams in 2014, six states have had more than one school make the bracket. Name three.
Ohio (OSU and Cincinatti), Indiana (Indiana, Notre Dame), Florida (FSU, Miami), Louisiana (LSU, Tulane), Texas (Texas, Texas Tech, SMU, TCU, Texas A&M), Michigan (Michigan, MSU)
A mormon-heavy school that produced a current NFL quarterback whose last name is a feeling, and the only Texas school to produce both a Heisman trophy winner and a Super Bowl MVP in the last 15 years
Aggies (Texas A&M, Utah State University)
There are five duplicate last names between pairs of presidents. Name three.
Adams (John, John Quincy), Harrison (William Henry, Benjamin), Roosevelt (Theodore, Franklin), Bush (George x2), Johnson (Andrew, Lyndon)
In 2021, this 39 year old musician became the first artist in history to surpass 50 billion combined streams on Spotify. He shares a legal first name with the last name of a current NFC East kicker. He also shares a legal last name with the last name of an NFC East defensive lineman who has forced a turnover in a Super Bowl. What is his stage name?
Drake
Girlfriend of NFL quarterback does an Andy Bernard impression while asking someone to pass her something.
Madison Beer Me
Five colleges have produced both a president and a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Name two.
Navy (Jimmy Carter, Roger Staubach), Stanford (Herbert Hoover, John Elway), Michigan (Gerald Ford, Tom Brady), Delaware (Joe Biden, Joe Flacco), Miami OH (Benjamin Harrison, Ben Roethlisburger)
A school near Lake Tahoe that produced a controversial quarterback and a North Carolina school that had three former quarterbacks take an NFL snap in 2025.
Wolfpack (Nevada University, NC State University)
There are four former presidents whose first and last name start with the same letter. Name two.
Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge
40 year old musician with the legal name Peter Hernandez has released three full-length solo studio albums (in 2010, 2012, and 2016). In 2018, he became the first male musician to have five songs reach one billion streams on Spotify. What is his stage name?
Bruno Mars
The Texas fan who plays astronaut Joseph Cooper, advertising executive Ben Berry, and detective Rustin Cohle decides to make a trio with a famous Atlanta rap duo and sing their most-played Spotify song.
Matthew McConaugHey Ya!
Duplicate city names: In the US, there are four city names in which there are two SEPARATE cities with that same name, that both have a D1 university located in their city. Name one.
Oxford (MI: Ole Miss, OH: Miami OH), Columbia (MO: Missouri, SC: South Carolina), Athens (GA: Georgia, OH: Ohio), Bowling Green (OH: Bowling Green, KY: Western Kentucky).
School named after a common carbohydrate and a school located in a city that translates to "mouse mouth"
Owls (Rice University, Florida Atlantic University)
There are five US cities with a population greater than 250,000 that share a name a former president. Name three.
Washington DC, Cleveland OH, Madison WI, Jackson MS, Lincoln NE.
Seattle-based musician Benjamin Haggerty had a Billboard #1 song for six weeks in 2012, and he won a Grammy for that song. The next year, he achieved another Billboard #1 song, and also released a song that impacted the LGBTQ movement. What is his stage name?
Macklemore
Half of a pair will ruin the suitor of Lady Luck, but might be the thrill of the fight for a fictional Philadelphian boxer.
Snake Eye of the Tiger