Who is the most decorated athlete in U-M history?

Gymnast Elise Ray
Football player Tom Harmon
Swimmer Shannon Shakespeare
Basketball player Glen Rice
Runner Kevin Sullivan

In 2010, Barack Obama spoke at U-M’s spring commencement. Which one of these presidents did not visit U-M?

George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson

What was the “three feet rule”?

Bo Schembechler’s rule for how wide a lineman’s stance must be
Policy that required a couple to keep at least that many feet on the floor during dorm-room visits
The buffer of personal space insisted upon by U-M’s second president, Erastus Haven
The maximum distance that anti-Vietnam War protesters would allow between themselves, in order to make emergency arm-linking easier

Football coach Rich Rodriguez is known as the creator of the spread-option offense. Which sports innovation was not created by U-M coaches or players?

Refusing to dip the US flag at the Olympics
Substituting different players for offense and defense
Selling tickets to a non-college audience
Leaping backward over a high-jump bar
Posing like a Heisman trophy after scoring a touchdown

U-M has produced several transformative figures in the field of computing. Who of these were not a Michigan alum?

Google co-founder Larry Page
Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy
Thomas Knoll, inventor of Photoshop
Video game heroine Ms. Pac Man

According to U-M researchers Stephen and Rachel Kaplan, taking a walk outdoors…

Improves the mind’s ability to focus
Destroys unwanted glial cells
Means never having to say you’re sorry
Burns more calories per minute than taking a walk indoors

U-M’s first Regents nearly located the Diag and central campus somewhere else. Where?

Lansing
On the other side of Division Street
North of the current campus, on the bluffs above the Huron River
On the current site of Michigan Stadium
On a west Ann Arbor field where Henry Ford had abandoned plans for a factory

Why did John Lennon come to Ann Arbor in 1971?

As a favor to Moby Benedict
To “Free John Sinclair!”
To sing “Give Peace a Chance” (live, for the first time)
To host an exhibition of his drawings at the U-M art museum
To produce an album with then-student Iggy Pop

Professor of English and religion Ralph Williams appears in the movie “Answer This!” in what role?

Thomas Gorfman, nutty sidekick to the hero, Paul
Elliot Tarson, colorful professor of English at U-M
Morton Telegraph, chump
Turner Schumacher, dour organizer of pub trivia competitions