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THE YEAR USD WAS FOUNDED

WHAT IS 1862?

100

A KEY CONCEPT OF KCS, IT FORMS THE ABBREVIATION UFFA

WHAT IS USE IT, FLAG IT, FIX IT, ADD IT?

100

VERMILLION NATIVE BEN LEBER PLAYED THIS PROFESSIONAL SPORT

WHAT IS FOOTBALL?

100

FIRST NAME OF THE 18TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA

WHAT IS SHEILA (GESTRING)?

100

THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY

WHAT IS RUSSIA?

200

OF THE THREE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS, THIS ONE WAS NEVER REBUILT AFTER A FIRE DESTROYED IT

WHAT IS WEST HALL?

200

SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG IF THIS TYPE OF INCIDENT IS DECLARED

WHAT IS MAJOR INCIDENT?

200

THIS ESTABLISHMENT HAS BEEN A MAINSTAY OF DOWNTOWN VERMILLION SINCE 1954

WHAT IS CAREY'S BAR?

200

THIS BUILDING HOUSES BASKETBALL AND VOLLEYBALL

WHAT IS THE SANFORD COYOTE SPORTS CENTER?

200

PRESIDENT SLAGLE, WHO INITIATED THE FIRST DAKOTA DAY, ALSO HELPED START THIS HOMECOMING TRADITION AT HIS PREVIOUS INSTITUTION

WHAT IS HOBO DAY?

300

THIS COLLEGE, WITH WINFRED R. COLTON SERVING AS FIRST DEAN, BEGAN OFFERING CLASSES IN 1931

WHAT IS THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS?

300

VERMILLION RELOCATED TO ABOVE THE BLUFFS AFTER THE TOWN WAS DESTROYED BY THIS

WHAT IS A FLOOD?

300

THE MARCHING BAND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA IS KNOW AS THIS

WHAT IS THE "SOUND OF USD?"

300

ALEXANDER PELL, FORMALLY SERGEI DEGAEV, A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AND MURDER SUSPECT, FOUNDED THIS COLLEGE IN 1907

WHAT IS THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING?

400

THIS COMPOSER OF MARCHES CONDUCTED HIS BAND IN SLAGLE AUDITORIUM IN 1929

WHO IS JOHN PHILIP SOUSA?

400

THIS EUROPEAN CITY IS THE SISTER CITY OF VERMILLION

WHAT IS RATINGEN, GERMANY?

400

THE NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM WAS FORMALLY KNOWN AS THIS

WHAT IS THE SHRINE TO MUSIC MUSEUM?

400

THE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL, FOUNDED IN 1919, CALLED ITS FOOTBALL TEAM THIS

WHAT ARE THE COYOTE PUPS?

500

THIS BELL TOWER ONCE STOOD IN THE CENTER OF CAMPUS

WHAT IS THE QUIRK CARILLON?

500

ONE OF ONLY TWO NUMBERED STREETS IN VERMILLION

WHAT IS EITHER 8TH OR 12TH STREETS?

500

FORMED IN 1924, INITIALLY AS A MEN'S DRAMATIC CLUB

WHAT IS STROLLERS?

500

THIS HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR ONCE JUDGED AN EDITION OF THE VANITY FAIR BEAUTY CONTEST AT USD DURING THE 1920s. 

WHO WAS CECIL B. DEMILLE?