Got them all with 2:30 left. It helps immensely that I devoted so much time to mastering the college basketball team naming quiz. Never would have gotten NAU, USU, or GMU otherwise.
You really must have mastered it if it helped you with GMU. I was at school there the year they made it in to the playoffs. I think it's only happened once, right?
It makes the most sense possible out of the comment I was responding to. If he's trying to disparage the universities on this quiz he should at least say "these" and not "those." But I'm not even sure if that's what he means.
Southern Cal is USC on the west coast. South Carolina is USC on the east coast. But why are their nicknames the Trojans and the Cocks? That is just too funny.
I agree. As a Virginian, it made it pretty easy. To be honest, Virginia and California do have a lot of universities but as far as Virginia goes having UVA or VT would be a lot easier to guess than GMU.
The Quizmaster's silence on the USC issue is deafening. ... Both South Carolina and Southern Cal should be accepted. It doesn't matter what the logo on the title screen is, that is not part of the quiz. ... Rather than argue with some idiot about SJSU, quizmaster should address this blatant error.
Okay, I'll sub for QM since he didn't show up to answer this. The issue of the USC's went to a federal appeals court, and the judges ruled that South Carolina couldn't use USC on their athletic uniforms because SoCal already was. Honestly, I think that's BS, especially considering South Carolina was founded 79 years before SoCal, but not being a huge fan of either school, I won't stick my nose too much further.
South Carolina has reverted to officially using USC in marketing as of 2023 (source: I go here). We were founded before California was a part of the United States. However, we were called South Carolina College at the time, and Southern California did actually get to USC first. Either way, since USC is an officially-accepted abbreviation for the school per the school itself, I still think it should be accepted.
My high school when I was going there was CHS. There was another, older high school nearby with the same initials. Eventually mine changed its initials to CVHS which sounds really strange to my ear, since I was used to the former abbreviation.
USC is the University of South Carolina, Founded 1802, 48 years before California was even a state, 78 years before USoCal ** update, I just saw I made the same comment 3 years ago!!
Seeing how I only ever heard of "UCLA" (and only like that , not the full version) I think I did pretty well managing to decipher 8 of those :) I had zero clue haha
As people have pointed out, USC was University of South Carolina first, and "Eastern Carolina" should be accepted for ECU because that's what people in North Carolina actually call it (as a North Carolinian, I can attest). Other than that, though, good quiz, and you stumped me on several of them!