By Pat Harty

IOWA CITY, Iowa – With the start of the football season, and with the start of school just a few weeks away, this seems an appropriate time for another pop quiz about Hawkeye athletics.

So, here are 15 questions, mostly about Iowa football, that will test your knowledge.

Of course, it would be easy to cheat with help from the Internet, or by scrolling down the page for the answers below, but why not challenge yourself instead, and have some fun with it.

Good luck.

Answers listed below the questions

1. True or false: Iowa previously has had a head football coach named Clem Madigan?

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2. Which one of these four former Iowa football players from the East Coast isn’t from New Jersey?

A. Danan Hughes

B. Andre Tippett

C. Joe Mott

D. Norm Granger

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3. True or false: The Iowa single season record for most touchdown passes is fewer than 30?

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4. Chuck Hartlieb has the first, second and fourth highest single-game passing yards in program history, while Chuck Long has the third and sixth highest single-game passing yards in program history. Which one of the following four quarterbacks has the fifth highest single-game passing yards in program history?

A. James Vandenberg

B. Scott Mullen

C. Drew Tate

D. Matt Sherman

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5. True or false: Bob Jeter finished with more career rushing yards as a Hawkeye than Damian Sims.

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6. Match the current Iowa football player with his hometown.

1. Diante Vines
2. Beau Stephens
3. Koen Entringer
4. Mason Richman

 

A. Leawood, Kansas

B. Danbury, Connecticut

C. Blue Springs, Missouri

D. Ypsilanti, Michigan

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7. Former Iowa star point guard Ronnie Lester graduated from which one these four Chicago high schools?

A. Simeon

B. Whitney Young

C. Dunbar

D. Morgan Park

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8. Which one of these four former Iowa quarterbacks finished with fewer than 40 career touchdown passes?

A. C.J. Beathard

B. Chuck Hartlieb

C. Matt Sherman

D. Matt Rodgers

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9. True or false: Shanty Burks finished his career as a Hawkeye with more tackles than Leroy Smith?

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10. True or false: Kevin Kasper finished his career as a Hawkeye with more career receiving yards than Ronnie Harmon.

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11. Which one of these four former Iowa football players isn’t from the state of Iowa?

A. Randy Reiners

B. Deven Harberts

C. Brandon Wegher

D. Casey Wiegmann

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12. Which one of these four former Iowa football players never had at least 200 receiving yards in a single game as a Hawkeye?

A. Deven Harberts

B. Bill Happel

C. Quinn Early

D. Tim Dwight

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13. Which one of these four former Iowa wrestlers never finished undefeated in a single season as a Hawkeye?

A. Barry Davis

B. T.J. Williams

C. Tom Brands

D. Lincoln McIlravy

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14. True or False. Former Iowa quarterbacks Olen Treadway, Pete Gales, Jake Christensen and C.J. Beathard all had at least one 300-yard passing game as a Hawkeye.

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15. Who scored Iowa’s first touchdown in a bowl game and Iowa’s most recent touchdown in a bowl game?

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Answers

1. False. Slip Madigan coached Iowa for two seasons in 1943 and 1944, and then was replaced by Clem Crowe, who would go on to coach the Hawkeyes for just one season in 1945.

But Iowa never has had a coach named Clem Madigan.

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2. C.) Former defensive end Joe Mott is from Endicott, New York.

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3. True: Chuck Long holds the record with 27 touchdown passes, which he set during his Heisman Trophy runner-up season in 1985.

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4. B.) Scott Mullen threw for 426 yards against Indiana in 1999, completing 36-of-60 passes with zero touchdowns in a 38-31 loss at Kinnick Stadium.

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5. False. Jeter rushed for 1,016 yards in three seasons from 1957-59, while Damian Sims finished his Hawkeye career with 1,504 rushing yards from 2004-07.

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6. 1-B, 2-C, 3-D, 4-A

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7. C.) Ronnie Lester graduated from Chicago Dunbar High School in 1976.

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8. B.) Chuck Hartlieb threw 37 career touchdown passes from 1986-88.

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9. True. Burks, a defensive back, had 215 career tackles from 1973-77, while Smith, who switched from running back to defensive end early in his career as a Hawkeye, had 203 tackles from 1988-91.

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10. False. Kasper finished with 1,974 career receiving yards as a Hawkeye; Ronnie Harmon finished with 2,045 receiving yards.

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11. C.) Wegher is from Dakota Dunes, South Dakota.

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12. D.) Tim Dwight’s career high in receiving yards for a single game was 188 yards on eight catches against Northwestern in 1996.

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13. A.) Barry Davis lost six matches as a freshman in 1980-81, and then finished 46-1 as a sophomore in 1981-82, 38-1-1 as a junior in 1982-83 and 43-1-1 as a senior in 1984-85. He also won a national title in each of his last three seasons, but never finished undefeated as a Hawkeye.

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14. False. While Treadway, Gales and Christensen all had at least one game with 300 or more passing yards, C.J Beathard’s career high was 278 passing yards against North Texas in 2015.

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15. Quarterback Kenny Ploen scored Iowa’s first touchdown in a bowl game on a 49-yard run against Oregon State in the 1957 Rose Bowl, while current Iowa defensive back Cooper DeJean scored Iowa’s most recent touchdown in a bowl on a 14-yard pick six against Kentucky in the 2022 Music City Bowl.