Drum roll please...

Here are the much-awaited answers to yesterday's quiz.  I hope that y'all got to try it out and that now y'all can see how you measure up to other Carolina students.  Make me proud guys!!!  The score to beat is 9 out of 15, so here it goes!

1. The score at last season's first home football game was a win against the LA-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns.  We beat them 28-14.  I remember being at the game, being actually quite worried that we weren't going to come out victorious.  It was an expected easy game that turned out to be a bit more challenging, but nevertheless, the Gamecocks had a win on their first game on home turf!

2.  So how many TV screens are there in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in the Russell House?  If you've ever visited campus for a tour or just because you were in the neighborhood, chances are you've been inside the Student Union.  Surprisingly, a lot of students missed this question.  I don't know if it was because the choices were so close or those TVs by the magazine racks just look so big and we're generally too distracted by the latest Cosmo for the ladies or Maxim for the gents...but in total, there are 4 TV screens!

3.  Williams-Brice Stadium is probably one of my favorite places on campus!  So, what exactly is its official capacity?  A whopping 80,250.  Although, for the record, the WBS was able to hold about 85,000 during the rivalry game with Clemson back in 2001.  In the same year, we had about a hundred shy of that record for the Florida game at 84,900 spectators.  WBS can get pretty packed for those big games!

4.  Charlie Strong's 3-3-5 was the defensive formation when he became the Defensive Coordinator for USC's team.  Strong is quite a big name in the NCAA.

5. Tricky, tricky, tricky.  After reading the question, those who would know what the name of the Health Center would immediately go blank after they read the answers.  Is it with the "p" or without the "p"?  So, what do you guys think?!?  Dun, dun, DUN!!!  And the answer is:  WITHOUT THE P!!!  It is the Thomson Student Health Center!

6. The ever-unforgettable Carolina-Clemson Brawl.  Tsk, tsk!  See this link to the entry to a Wiki page about the Brawl.  Oh, and the answer is 2004!

7.  And so the question about meal plans!  You guys will get awfully familiar with this system and will probably do your best to work your ways around the times and the values and the Bonus Bucks to get the maximum value of your plan...You guys will figure it all out.  Don't you worry!  So, what's the breakfast retail amount?  A whopping three dollars and eighty-five cents!  Hooray!

8. So, back to that Brawl.  If you still didn't click on the link to find out about the Brawl, all you need to know was that it was bad, and it basically resulted in both the teams declining invitations to the bowl.  Naturally, team players were upset and more things happened...but yeah!  SIGH!

9.  Yet another tricky question.  Most people who have tried to communicate with the Housing Department through AIM would know that it's quite a pretty efficient way to get your questions asked about housing matters, but is it USCHOUSING or is it the one with an extra C?  Naturally, y'all probably wanted to pick the one with no extra C because it would only make sense, but that will leave you waiting for forever because the right answer is USCCHousing.  Why the extra C?  Personally, I don't know.  Maybe I should send a quick IM and find out why!  Hehe!

10.  Steve Spurrier had his days in the NFL, and boy were those some good days.  But 0-14 was probably not the good days I'm talking about.  Spurrier once played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and that 0-14 record...OOO-weee!

11.  You know, the result for this question was very intriguing to me.  Only about half of the students who took this trivia challenge knew the correct answer.  I'm not quite sure what it means because personally campaign and elections week was so huge around campus, and quite frankly there was no getting away from the politics of student government.  But for the winner of next school year's Student Body Treasurer....JONATHAN ANTONIO!

12.  Iron wall sounds kind of hard to break down.  Lock n' Load sounds pretty serious business.  Cock n' Fire sounds appropriate as we are Gamecocks and the whole gun-fire picture.  But nope.  None of those three are correct.  FIRE ANTS.  Darn, those fire ants and that's exactly what was the the nickname of our Gamecock defense back in 1984.

13.  So, what about that 2001 that plays to cheer on the entire team by the entire stadium going crazy and Cocky going nuts in his cage?  Thanks to Coach Joe Morrison, 2001 has become a Carolina tradition not just in football games but in other sports and Carolina events where Cocky makes his appearances!

14.  And the Gamecock's All-Time Leading Receiver Award goes to........STERLING SHARPE!

15.  So, this has screwed me up before.  I went to the mail room cutting it close to 5PM and found that I had a yellow slip in my mailbox.  Yellow slips bring joy to my day because this means that I've got a package!  But 5PM-shmishm, the mail room center is closed!  I decided that before I run late to my morning class the next day that I would rush to the basement first and pick up my package and start my day off great but of course I didn't check the time that they would be open.  My class was quite early that day, and so, I was at the basement by 8AM.  Oh, and I was the only one there!  I learned that day that the mail room center...they don't open until 9 in the morning!

So, how did y'all measure up to the test?  I hope you guys did well and enjoyed the lil trivia!

Catch y'all later on the flipside, Gamecocks!