USC 101
Gamecocks love to hate them, our least favorite team.
What is Clemson?
One of the widest streets in downtown Columbia. Built in the 18th century, (allegedly) the early city planners hoped the street would be too wide for mosquitoes to cross.
What is Assembly Street?
The thing that was found buried in barrels behind DeSaussure on the horseshoe in 2010.
What are human remains?
Located just south of Columbia, this park is SC's only national park. While its sticky temps and resident moquitos keep most national parkers away, it houses some champion trees (tallest known trees of their species) and is one of the only places in the world you can see synchronized lightning bugs.
The Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia is one of ten zoos in the United States to permanentely house these cute fluffy creatures from down under.
What are Koalas?
The year USC was founded.
What is 1801?
The haunted off campus apartment complex where some students find their home away from home. (Hint: There are two, bonus points if you get both)
What are Olympia Mills and Bull Street Asylum?
The building on campus that served as a hospital during the Civil War and a military prison during Reconstruction. (Rumored to be haunted by two female ghosts and housed USC's first medical school)
What is DeSaussure?
Columbia's nickname.
What is Cola or Soda City?
The famous band that was born out of USC and Columbia.
What is Hootie & The Blowfish?
The years the women's basketball team won the NCAA national championship.
partial points available
What is 2017, 2022, 2024?
The humanoid creature rumored to live in the Congaree.
What is the Lizard Man?
The former president rumored to roam campus.
Who is James McKissick?
Fun fact: After police installed the emergency call boxes, the box near the former president's grave would periodically go off. When police repsonded no one was ever there or caught on camera. Facilities determined there was nothing wrong with the box.
The person Columbia is named after.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The number of floors in the Thomas Cooper Library.
What is 7?
The ineffective way USC tried to stop their students from going to the taverns in the 1830s.
What is a wall?
The bridge that connects West Columbia/Cayce to the City of Columbia. The bridge is said to house a ghost of a young hitchhiker. It is rumored that many haved offered her aid just to find she has vanished from their car.)
What is the Gervais St. Bridge?
Why did the hitchhiking ghost cross the bridge? To get to The Other Side.
The previous use of the lounge beneath Longstreet Theatre.
What is a morgue?
The three places in Columbia connected by underground tunnels aka Columbia's catacombs. (partial points available)
What is Five Points, USC, and the State House?
The amount the largest fish caught in Lake Murray weighed. This fish was nicknamed the "Lake Murray Monster". (if the first team guesses wrong the team closest to the right answer gets partial points)
What is 298 lbs?
The famous USC event in 1833 ended in one student death, one student never recovering from their injuries, and two expulsions.
What was this duel over you might ask? a trout. Note: Dueling at this time was frowned upon by the University.
The legendary "being" that roams the tunnels under Columbia. There have been reported sightings over the years including the "being" chacing students and eating a chicken carcass (feathers and all) by longstreet theater.
What is the "Third Eye Man"?
What is rumored to be the most haunted building in Columbia?
What is Longstreet Theatre?
Columbia was home to this world breaking art installation. Standing at 39 feet tall and weighing 6750 lbs it was the largest one of these in the world. It was installed in 2001 and removed in 2023 and placed in storage.
What is the world's largest fire hydrant?
The aproximate number of trees on campus.
What is 7,000 ish?