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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
David Israel’s got a brand new audio quiz for all you college football fanatics: “Can you match the tunes with the schools that made ‘em famous? Turn up those speakers and fight, fight, fight!”
Just for clarification, we don’t really want you to fight… just show off your school spirit (and knowledge!) by taking the quiz here. Then come back and report your score below.
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Way too many crappy Big 10 schools.
posted by J on 9-26-2007 at 11:35 am
Wow. 10%. I’m unlikely to get my own fight song any time soon. In the meantime, it’s odd how similar they started sounding toward the end. You should have included Tom Lehrer’s “Fight Fiercely, Harvard” to throw everyone off.
posted by Roger on 9-26-2007 at 11:46 am
Uh, I got them all right..but where are the SEC and Big 12 schools? No offense, but who cares what Purdue and Michigan State’s fight songs are…
Oklahoma? Texas? Georgia? Alabama? Tennessee’s Rocky Top?
What a boring quiz.
posted by Chris on 9-26-2007 at 11:57 am
Ok, ok – not cool to call the Big Ten crappy. And as to who cares about Purdue and Michigan State’s fight songs? A lot of people – just like there are a lot of people who care about all the other schools’ fight songs. And I must say this: the only people allowed to hate on Big Ten schools are people from a Big Ten school (so obviously we can hate on all the other schools in the Big Ten other than our own). And Chris, you must think it’s a boring quiz because you’re probably a boring person. …sorry to go on the offensive here, but I feel as if I’m being attacked (as part of the Big Ten). Go Big Ten!
posted by Lindsay D on 9-26-2007 at 1:39 pm
Where is the most important of all the Big Ten fight songs, Hail to the Victors?
posted by puddle on 9-26-2007 at 1:55 pm
Out of 10 questions, there are 5 Big10 (actually Big11 since we’re all math majors) teams on that quiz.
One ACC team. Two Pac-10 teams. One service academy. One Independent.
It was a boring quiz because most people who graduate from non-Big10+1 schools think the Big 10+1 is boring. It is. Nobody’s watching your new network and you lose to Division I-AA teams and get flattened in bowls against other leagues.
The point I made was that there were no SEC or Big 12 schools on the list. There are many very famous fight songs from those schools.
Who (outside the Big 10+1) has ever really heard Purdue or MSU’s fight song to be able to pick it out on a quiz? Why not replace it with a school from another part of the country?
And Lindsay…since you called me out by name…those of us from schools that REGULARLY beat your Big 10+1 teams in games can hate on you all we want…have you looked at your league’s results lately? You might be surprised.
posted by Chris on 9-26-2007 at 1:56 pm
How can the “Hail to the Victors” (the University of Michigan’s fight song) not be on this list?
You’d think that the one college fight song to be branded as “the best college fight song ever” by John Phillip Sousa himself would at least be in the running!
Especially if you bothered to put both Michigan State and Ohio State on the list.
posted by Alanna on 9-26-2007 at 2:06 pm
The only college fight song I need to know is the one for the best: LSU’s “Hey Fighting Tigers”.
posted by Mary on 9-26-2007 at 2:55 pm
I appreciate your opinion Chris – and as for my league’s standing – yes, I realize that things did not get off to a great start. However, I see no reason to turn my back on the league because of it. One thing I will never be accused of is being a fairweather Big Ten fan, therefore I will forever proudly proclaim the greatness that is the Big Ten. And yes, everyone does know that there are 11 schools in the Big Ten, that’s why it’s written out as Ten instead of saying 10 – the eleven is in the logo. I see no reason to change it’s name even if we add more teams to the conference. And I think that it was not a necessarily conscious thing that so many Big Ten schools were picked for the quiz – they are large schools, spread across the country, which when the quiz was being created probably made sense geographically. Or I could just be a jerk and say it was because the Big Ten is and forever will be the greatest conference ever regardless of standings in any sport.
posted by Lindsay D on 9-26-2007 at 3:07 pm
what the…? if I hadn’t gone to penn state, I wouldn’t have recognized that song. and unless something’s changed in the past few years, the tune considered the fight song has always been “fight on state”.
posted by monkeypox on 9-26-2007 at 3:16 pm
O – H!!!
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posted by Amy on 9-26-2007 at 4:18 pm
As a UT fan, I would have liked to see their song, but it’s not a challenge if they’re all songs you know.
I got 3 right, but one of those was a guess. Notre Dame and Navy, of course. I would’ve thought I’d recognize Perdue because I had a lot of family go there, but it was not to be…
It was not a boring quiz. Think for just a minute, how rude it is to knock a free service compiled for your enjoyment. If you have criticism, maybe you could make it more constructive.
posted by Beth on 9-26-2007 at 4:28 pm
Its not just you monkeypox…
I went to PSU too, and I still don’t know what that song that is our “fight song” is (is it supposed to be a crappy rendition of “The Nittany Lion”???)…
Any which way its not Fight On State, which I got to hear plenty when I was at the FIU game, so I don’t think anything has changed. :-p
posted by Corrine on 9-27-2007 at 6:36 am
wow! there’s a lot of fightin’ words here. i’m impressed.
first: to monkeypox and corrine, don’t forget i’m from philly! you think i was going to go for the easy one? that’s the blue band’s “victory song” up there… and i think it’s a much more interesting tune.
now, regarding all the big 10 schools, i did try to spread the love as much as i could, but honestly only wanted to put a nice variety of easy-to-obscure up there.
posted by David on 9-27-2007 at 9:01 am
Uh…forgive me, but which one is UCLA again?
I couldn’t find a way to connect the songs to the logos, so I can’t tell what the answers are, so I’m just going by my ear.
I’ve got a UCLA almuna standing next to me, we’ve just listened to all the songs, and UCLA is NOT among them. What gives?
C in C
posted by Confused in California on 9-27-2007 at 11:53 am
I got 20% correct, however I missed my own school fight song (the only one I thought I had right). Bet my alma mater still cash my check to their foundation.
posted by Lalita on 9-27-2007 at 1:48 pm
That is not Michigan State’s Fight Song, it’s a version of Eat ‘em Up that the MSU band plays.
The real fight song is called Falcone Fight.
posted by Paul on 9-29-2007 at 1:26 pm
hi C in C: sounds like a browser problem. there should be litle empty boxes next to the photos of the schools’ logos for you to put the matching numbers in.
with regard to the UCLA tune, it’s called The Mighty Bruins. You can check out this Web site for lyrics and a complete tune:
http://www.uclahistoryproject.ucla.edu/Songs/MightyBruins.html
posted by David on 9-29-2007 at 2:49 pm
Well, I’m a Hoosier fan and their song wasn’t on here. Still I got two mixed up and all the others right. Lots of guessing. My husband and I found this actually because we were trying to figure out how many Big Ten songs we knew.
posted by Julie on 1-26-2008 at 7:18 pm