College Trivia

Alex Trebek announces that you’re the daily winner, with $28,000.” Not bad for 30 minutes of work, all because you knew how StraighterLine credits transfer. 

Okay, why are we wishing you Happy September 13^th today? What happened on September 13^th? Glad you asked. You see, the famous Battle of Baltimore took place on September 13^th and 14^th, 1814. In that battle, heroic American patriots defended Fort McHenry in Baltimore against an attack by the British.

What is the difference between the mean, the median and the mode? StraighterLine has created a terrific video that explains it all.  It’s one of a growing number of instructional math videos that StraighterLine has posted on YouTube.

Brilliant people have always had a lot to say about education. But who said what? Here’s a fun quiz that lets you test your intuition and knowledge.Under each quote are the names of four people who might have said it. Your job is to pick the one who really did.

What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? Go get a pie and eat it while you calculate its area and circumference as you watch the new StraighterLine Pi video, that’s how.

Dixie State College tried selling naming rights to bathroom stalls, but failed.  If you want to leave a permanent mark on your alma mater, what could be better than having a plaque engraved with your name and screwed onto the door of a bathroom stall?  Nothing we can think of. And in fact, Dixie State College in Utah did try to sell naming rights to toilet stalls on campus for a while, then pulled back when the plan didn’t work. You can read all about it in USA Today.

Vassar College made a mistake on its website and informed 76 students that they had been admitted via the college’s early acceptance program. Then it had to backtrack and tell them that they hadn’t. 

A few weeks ago we ran our Mixed Bag trivia quiz. So it is now time to give you the answers! Ready! Here are the answers  . . .

How cultured are you? You’re going to find out this week, because we decided to quiz you on trivia from the snooty world of art and culture. Put on your thinking cap (and maybe fire up Google), because some of these questions are tricky.

A few weeks ago we ran the first-ever StraighterLine science trivia quiz. This week, we decided to throw you a curve ball by quizzing you on a mixed bag of trivia from art, music, history, just plain stupidity, and several other areas.  Are you up to it? Get ready to rock and roll but be warned, some of these questions are tricky.

It’s now been a few weeks since we ran our first-ever science trivia quiz. Here are the correct answers - and the winners! 

Today, we are publishing another quiz, plus taking the whole college trivia quiz concept to the next level, by offering a reward to the first person who answers all the questions correctly. Here’s the scoop . . . 

With this post, we begin a series of short quizzes to test your grasp of the trivial knowledge that is taught in high school and college. Today’s trivia quiz is about . . . American History