March Madness
Final Four
Are you RU?
Spring, Sprang,Sprung
J & J
100

only one time in tournament history did the four number 1 seeds make the final four.  Which year was it? 2018, 1999, 2008 or 2013  Bonus $500 if you can name all four teams

what is 2008?

100

This is the first word in the name of the NJ amusement park that is no longer with us.

what is action?

100

He is the current president of Rutgers University

Who is Jonathan Holloway?

100

This is the birth flower for those born in the month of March

What is a daffodil?

100

This was her name before she married "the Great One"

Who is Janet Jones?

200

The all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer?

(A) Wilt Chamberlin (B) Jerry Lucas

(C) Pete Maravich (D) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

 Who is Pete Marvich?

200

This action role playing game was released for Nintendo Switch in September of 2018.  The word also means a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions

What is Bastion?

200

There are approximately this many students are enrolled across all 3 campuses

what is 71,000?

200

In this hemisphere, springtime lasts from August until November

What is the southern hemisphere?


200

He went from Miami to Dallas to win a championship

Who is Jimmy Johnson?

300

This popular basketball move was banned from college basketball in 1967 only to be reinstated in 1976

(A) Three-point Shot (B) Slam Dunk

(C) Charges (D) Chest Pass

Believe it or not, it was the slam dunk. In 1966, Texas Western fielded one of the first all-black teams, and purists were upset about the aggressive style in which they played. They outlawed dunks in an attempt to slow them down. This ban held true for 10 years before being lifted.

300

Charles Zachary does this during cross examination

What is question?

300

There are approximately this many alumni around the world

What is 530,000?

300

Easter always falls on the first Sunday after this occurrence

What is the first full moon of the spring equinox?

300

This female entertainer won a grammy in 1984 for the song "That's the way love goes"

Who is Janet Jackson?

400

What non-related sporting event led to the cancellation of the third-place game in the Final Four?  

(A) The Reagan Assassination Attempt (B) The Unabomber

(C) The Challenger Explosion (D) The Iran Hostage Crisis

In 1981, an assassination attempt occurred on Ronald Reagan, and both the third place and National Championship game were delayed. It would be decided that only the Finals get played, which is what established the current format.

400

In 1998 Tom Brokaw published a book - this word is in the title

What is generation?

400

Rutgers offers more than BLANK undergraduate majors through our schools and colleges in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden; online; at satellite sites throughout New Jersey; and in conjunction with partner institutions.

What is 150?

400

The word equinox means this

What is equal night?


400

I swear that her reality show was first broadcast in 1996

Who is Judge Judy?

500

One of the following cities have NEVER hosted a Final Four game

(A) Chicago (B) Denver

(C) Charlotte (D) San Diego

What is Chicago?

500

Junot Diaz (a 1992 RU graduate) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this in 2008

What is Fiction?

500

According to wikipedia there have been several musical guests (individuals and groups) who have performed at "Rutgers Fest".  Name 3 of them.

Kanye West, Everclear, Sugar Ray, Guster, Goldfinger, Ludacris, Reel Big Fish, Method Man and Redman, Fuel, Third Eye Blind, Hawthorne Heights, NAS, SR-71, Ok Go, N.E.R.D. and Pitbull

500

The name for the brown papery fiber that covers the bulb of a spring flower

What is a tunic?

500

1972  mountain man film starring Robert Redford

What is Jeremiah Johnson?