By Pat Harty

IOWA CITY, Iowa – It’s pop quiz time, or more specifically, Hawkeye football quiz time.

With the 2026 college football season now in full swing, this seems an appropriate time to test your knowledge about Hawkeye football.

Iowa (2-0) will face Northern Iowa (1-1) in the final nonconference game of the season on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium.

The answers to this 20-question quiz are listed below the questions, so yes, it would be easy to cheat.

You could also use Google and AI to answer the questions.

But what fun is that?

Take the challenge, use real intelligence and see how it goes.

Good luck.

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1. Question: What do former Iowa tight end Brandon Myers, former Iowa running back Adam Robinson, former Iowa defensive back Tanner Miller and former Iowa linebacker Karson Sharar all have in common besides being former college teammates.

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2. Q: True or false; Northern Iowa never has scored more than 21 points in the series against Iowa.

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3. Q: Can you name the two Iowa players that blocked back-to-back field goals in the final seconds to defeat Northern Iowa 17-16 in 2009?

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4. Q: Match these four first-year Iowa players with the school from which they transferred:

1. Evan James
2. Anthony Hawkins
3. Brice Stevenson
4. Kahmari Brown

A. Elon

B. Furman

C.  Villanova

D. Holy Cross

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5. Q: True or false; since 2015, Iowa has won 10 games on a field goal in the final 30 seconds of the fourth quarter.

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6. Q: Iowa has 10 shutouts since 2018, which is tied with one other team for the most in FBS over that time frame. Can you name that team?

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7. Q: Can you name the head coach for the 1914 Iowa football team that crushed Northern Iowa 95-0 in Iowa City?

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8: Q: True or false; the 95 points scored against Northern Iowa in 1914 still ranks as the most points for Iowa in a single game.

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9. Q: True or false; Chuck Hartlieb is one of three Iowa quarterbacks to pass for at least 8,000 yards as a Hawkeye.

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10. Q: Match these four former Iowa running backs with their hometown.

1. Ozzie Simmons
2. Shonn Greene
3. Eddie Phillips
4. Nick Bell

A. Chicago

B. Las Vegas, Nevada

C. Gainesville, Texas

D. Sicklerville, New Jersey

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11. Q: Which one of these four former Iowa tight ends never made first-team All-Big Ten: Alan Cross, Brandon Myers, George Kittle, Michael Titley?

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12. Q: An Iowa quarterback has passed for at least 400 yards in a game six times in program history, including three by Chuck Hartlieb and two by Chuck Long.  Can you name the other quarterback to achieve this milestone?

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13. Q: True or false: Chuck Hartlieb is the only player in program history to pass for more than 500 yards in a game.

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14. Q: Which one of these four towns in northwest Iowa was used by the Iowa coaches to hide Alex Karras and to keep him from being recruited by other schools: Sheldon, Sibley, Emmetsburg, Spencer.

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15. Q: Which one of these schools has Kirk Ferentz never coached for in any capacity: Maine, Fordham, Pittsburgh, Worcester Academy.

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16. Q: Name the four Iowa players that have won the Outland Trophy, and the year in which each won it.

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17. Q: Which one of these four former Iowa players isn’t from the state of New York: Joe Mott, Ronnie Harmon, Norm Granger, Harold Jasper?

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18. Q: Dennis Mosley led Iowa in rushing with 1,267 yards in 1979, which was Hayden Fry’s first season as head coach. What other milestone did Mosley accomplish with that rushing total?

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19. Q: Iowa was one of just two schools to offer former Iowa All-America safety Bob Sanders a scholarship coming out of high school: Can you name the other school?

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20. Q: Name the five coaches that were interviewed to replace Hayden Fry as the Iowa head coach.

 

Answers

1. All four were previously committed to Northern Iowa before switching to Iowa.

2. False. The Panthers scored a series-high 23 points in 2014, losing 31-23.

3. Defensive end Broderick Binns, blocked the first attempt with seven seconds remaining; linebacker Jeremiha Hunter blocked the second attempt with one second remaining.

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

5. True

6. Penn State

7. Jess Hawley

8. True

9. False; Hartlieb passed for 6,934 yards. Chuck Long (10,254), Nate Stanley (8,302) and Drew Tate (8,292) are the only quarterbacks in program history to surpass 8,000 career passing yards.

10. 1-C, 2-D, 3-A, 4-B

11. George Kittle

12. Scott Mullen passed 426 yards against Indiana in 1999.

13. True: Chuck Hartlieb passed for 558 yards and three touchdowns in a 45-35 loss to Indiana in 1988.

14. Spencer

15. Fordham

16. Calvin Jones, 1955; Alex Karras, 1957; Robert Gallery, 2003; Brandon Scherff, 2014.

17. Fullback Norm Granger is from Newark, New Jersey.

18. Mosely became the first player in program history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.

19. Ohio University

20. Kirk Ferentz, Bob Stoops, Chuck Long, Terry Allen, Don Patterson.