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College Mascot Quiz
The vast majority of colleges adopt standard-issue mascots intended to symbolize heroics on the athletic field: The Spartans. The Tigers. The Warriors. Other colleges choose mascots meant to characterize unique traits of their students, their history, their geography, or some other point of pride. See if you can identify the mascots adopted by the following schools and discover your degree of school spirit.
1
Students at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York are known as
a)
The Hudsons
b)
The Bloodhounds
c)
The DNA
2
Sports teams at the University of Richmond are nicknamed
a)
The Spiders
b)
The Scorpions
c)
The Centipedes
3
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, calls its students
a)
The Plumbers
b)
The Ironworkers
c)
The Boilermakers
4
Students at Whittier College call themselves
a)
The Mathematicians
b)
The Chemists
c)
The Poets
5
The Evergreen State College is home to
a)
The Pufferfish
b)
The Geoducks
c)
The Starfish
6
Students at the College of the Atlantic call themselves
a)
The Lobsters
b)
The Mainers
c)
The Black Flies
7
The official mascot of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is
a)
The Banana Slug
b)
The Banana Split
c)
The Bananarama
8
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, is home to
a)
The Mirages
b)
The Lumberjacks
c)
The Cacti
9
Students at Franklin and Marshall College call themselves
a)
The Diplomats
b)
The Ambassadors
c)
The Mediators
10
Iowa State University is home to
a)
The Flatlanders
b)
The Cornhusks
c)
The Cyclones
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