Week 12 TCU Quiz and TCU Fact

Week 12 Quiz Question: When did the TCU Showgirls' white TCU boots make their debut?

a) At TCU's Rose Bowl game against Wisconsin
b) At TCU's first Big 12 football game versus Kansas
c) At TCU's Fiesta Bowl game against Boise State
d) At Gary Patterson's first game as head coach

Week 12 TCU Fact: In 2017, there were 669 full-time professors, instructors and lecturers at TCU. The AddRan College of Liberal Arts had the most faculty, with 155. The College of Science and Engineering had the second-most, with 122.

Week 11 Quiz Answer: c) Josh Doctson: 18, against Texas Tech, September 26, 2016; tied with Albert Connell, Texas A&M, vs Colorado, September 28, 1996
Week 11 Quiz Question: What TCU player holds a Big 12 record for number of receptions in a Big 12 Conference game?

a) Kolby Listenbee
b) John Diarse
c) Josh Doctson
d) Aaron Greene

Week 11 TCU Fact: TCU's affiliation with the Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.) church dates back to the university's founding in 1873, when brothers Addison and Randolph Clark, Disciples ministers, established then AddRan Male and Female College in Thorp Spring, Texas. 

Week 10 Quiz Answer: b) Soft drinks

Week 10 Quiz Question: The Brown-Lupton Foundation, which funded the TCU Student Center and Health Center, made its income based on what?

a) Oil
b) Soft drinks
c) Cattle
d) Cotton

Week 10 TCU Fact: Victor J. Boschini Jr. is TCU's chancellor. He assumed office as the university's 10th chancellor on June 1, 2003. He also holds the rank of professor of education. Boschni came to TCU from Illinois State University, where he had been president from 1999 to 2003. He received his bachelor's degree from Mount Union College in 1978. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in personnel from Bowling Green State University in 1979. Boschni's doctorate in higher education administration was awarded to him at Indiana University in 1989.

Week 9 Quiz Answer: (c) TCU Buff
Week 9 Quiz Question: Most of the buildings at TCU are constructed with a specially blended golden brick from Acme Brick. What is the name of the brick?

a) Horned Frog Pride
b) Blonde Frog
c) TCU Buff
D) Patterson Pink

Week 9 TCU Fact: In the middle of campus, west of University Drive and northeast of Reed Hall, stands a tree older than TCU itself. A small plaque under the tree’s canopy says: “The only tree present on the new TCU campus was this Live Oak transplanted ‘from the forest’ by the class of 1912." A fire in 1910 destroyed the main building on TCU’s campus in Waco, Texas, and the university moved north, to Fort Worth. The Class of 1912 spent its junior year in leased corners of downtown Fort Worth while construction began a few miles south on 50 acres of grassy plains, notably devoid of trees. In the fall of 1911, the nomadic class started its senior year on TCU’s brand-new Fort Worth campus. The 1912 Horned Frog yearbook includes a timeline of noteworthy events: November 30. “T.C.U. meets Poly on the gridiron”; Jan. 8. “Grover Stewart’s pig mysteriously disappears”; and March 22. “Planting of the Senior Tree.” The then-50-year-old live oak, a gift from the first class to graduate along University Drive, was dubbed “monstrous” by the March 21, 1912, issue of The Skiff. If the record can be believed, the tree is now 156 years old -- not unusual for a live oak. The tree has lived through the Civil War, the turn of two centuries, 30 U.S. presidents and an ever-changing TCU landscape.

Week 8 Quiz Answer: (d) 3; Conference USA (2002); Mountain West (2005, 2009); and Big 12 (2014).
Week 8 Quiz Question: In how many leagues has Gary Patterson won a coach of the year award while guiding TCU?

a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3

Week 8 TCU Fact: TCU football has won 647 games. While Gary Patterson has been head coach, the Frogs have won 163. That's 25.2 percent of TCU's all-time football wins.

Week 7 Quiz Answer: (b) 6
Week 7 Quiz Question: How many times has TCU football had wining streaks of at east 12 games under Gary Patterson?

a) None
b) 6
c) 3
d) 2

Week 7 TCU Fact: There are 4,679 students living on the TCU Campus this fall semester.

Week 6 Quiz Answer: (d) Swimming and diving
Week 6 Quiz Question: Of the following sports, which one at TCU has boasted the most Academic All-Americans?

a) Football
b) Tennis
c) Golf
d) Swimming and diving

Week 6 TCU Fact: The East–West Shrine Game is a postseason college football all-star game that has been played annually since 1925. For the 1928 game, payers from the Southwest Conference were included for the first time. TCUs Raymog "Rags" Matthews was one of them.

Week 5 Quiz Answer: (c) First woman to head the Frog Club
Week 5 Quiz Question: Pat Vinsant '49 holds what TCU distinction?

Week 5 Quiz Question: Pat Vinsant '49 holds what TCU distinction?

a) First woman athletics administrator
b) First coach of women's basketball team
c) First woman to head the Frog Club
d) First cheerleader to be the top of a pyramid

Week 5 TCU Fact:  In 1949, TCU became the first university in the nation to offer a four-year degree in ballet.

Week 4 Quiz Answer: (c) Baja Desert Horned Lizard
Week 4 Quiz Question: There are fourteen different known species of horned lizard. Which is NOT a variety?
a) Chihuahua Desert Horned Lizard
b) Pygmy Short Horned Lizard
c) Baja Desert Horned Lizard
d) Regal Horned Lizard

Week 4 TCU Fact:  The only totally candlelight wedding to occur at Robert Carr Chapel came during a power failure on the east side of campus in the 1980s. Emmet Smith '54, then university organist, announced the bride by blowing on a pipe detached from the organ.

Week 3 Quiz Answer: (c) Downtown Fort Worth
Week 3 Quiz Question: TCU had no campus in 1910-11. Where did students live and go to classes?

a) Texas Wesleyan University
b) The Fort Worth YMCA
c) Downtown Fort Worth
d) Carswell Air Force Base

Week 3 TCU Fact: Frog Fountain became a part of TCU in 1969. Each Flute represents a different class at TCU. The tallest represents the seniors. The shortest represents the freshmen. The water flowing from each flute represents the knowledge that is flowing from the seniors down to the freshmen. The new and improved Frog Fountain was installed in December of 2007. A focal point of campus life for four decades, the fountain features four stylized lotus leaves, a motif that was chosen because of the historic association of the lotus and education. The fountain originally was placed in front of the Brown-Lupton Student Center in 1969.

Week 2 Quiz Answer: c) 81-19;  No. 8 TCU's 247 win over Texas on November 4, 2017, marked Gary Patterson’s 100th home game as TCU’s head coach. After that win the Horned Frogs were 81-19 over 17 seasons in those contests.
Week 2 Quiz Question: After Gary Patterson’s 100th home game as TCU’s head coach, what was TCU's home record over those 100 games?

a) 50-50
b) 77-23
c) 81-19
d) 91-9

Week 2 TCU Fact: TCU's first year in the SWC was 1923. The Frogs went 2-1 in conference and 5-4 overall, under head coach Matty Bell, who coached TCU from 1923 to 1928 and compiled a record of 33-17-5.

Week 1 Quiz Answer: a) 10,489
Week 1 Quiz Question: What was TCU's enrollment in 2017? 

a) 10,489
b) 8,941
c) 9,418
d) 14,890

Week 1 TCU Fact: Outside of Texas, the state with the most TCU alums is California.