Texas A&M Trivia
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96 free Texas A&M trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Texas A&M trivia questions with answers. This Texas A&M trivia quiz is built for anyone who says Howdy, wears an Aggie Ring or has stood through four quarters at Kyle Field. It covers the traditions first: the 12th Man and E. King Gill, Reveille and her cemetery, Aggie Bonfire and its memorial, Muster and the Roll Call for the Absent, Silver Taps, Elephant Walk, Midnight Yell, the five Yell Leaders and where 'Gig 'em' came from. Then it moves to history and sport: the 1876 opening as Texas A.M.C., Sul Ross and the penny on his statue, Earl Rudder's reforms, the Corps of Cadets and the Aggie Band, the 1939 national title, John David Crow and Johnny Manziel's Heismans, the Junction Boys, the Wrecking Crew, the move to the SEC and Kyle Field's record crowds. Questions range from easy to expert, and every answer was checked against a reliable source. Whoop.
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Q 01In which Texas city is Texas A&M's main campus?
College Station
College Station took its name from the post office opened beside the railway tracks in 1877 to serve the new college; it did not become a city in its own right until 1938.
Q 02What is the official school greeting at Texas A&M?
Howdy
Howdy is how Aggies are expected to greet one another and, above all, visitors to campus; the university itself admits that nobody knows how the custom began.
Q 03What kind of animal is Reveille, Texas A&M's official mascot?
A collie
A collie has held the post since Reveille III; by the best-known account the first Reveille was a stray mutt that cadets hit with their car in 1931 and hid in their dorm, until she barked at the bugle call.
Q 04What military rank does the mascot Reveille hold at Texas A&M?
Cadet general
Cadet general puts her one diamond above the student who commands the Corps, so a cadet who finds her asleep on his bed is expected to sleep somewhere else.
Q 05Where are Texas A&M's deceased Reveille mascots buried?
Outside the north end of Kyle Field
Outside the north end of Kyle Field, laid to face the scoreboard; when a stadium expansion blocked the view, a small scoreboard was put up by the graves just for the dogs.
Q 06Which country star filled Kyle Field in 2024?
George Strait
George Strait's crowd of 110,905 beat a record the Grateful Dead had held since 1977, and was bigger than any football crowd the 102,733-seat stadium has ever held.
Q 07Kyle Field began in 1904 on campus land assigned to Edwin Kyle, a professor of what?
Horticulture
Horticulture lost a plot to football: when the college refused to pay for a ground, Kyle fenced off part of his own teaching land and spent $650 of his own money on a second-hand grandstand.
Q 08The 12th Man tradition began in 1922 when student E. King Gill suited up at which game?
The Dixie Classic
The Dixie Classic in Dallas left the Aggie bench so thin with injuries that the coach waved Gill down from the press box, where he was spotting players for reporters; he suited up but was never sent in.
Q 09How do Aggie students honor the 12th Man during football games?
They stand for the entire game
They stand for the entire game to show they are ready to be called on, as one student was in 1922 when injuries left the team short of players.
Q 10The most famous Aggie Muster was held in 1942 on which besieged island?
Corregidor
Corregidor was under Japanese bombardment when its commander, an Aggie general, had a roll made of every Aggie on the island; the story was wired home and made headlines across a war-weary America.
Q 11Which Texas A&M ceremony, held on the first Tuesday of a month, honors students who died while enrolled?
Silver Taps
Silver Taps is played three times by buglers on the Academic Building, to the north, south and west, but never to the east, because the sun will never rise on that Aggie again.
Q 12What became of Aggie Bonfire after 1999?
Went off campus
Went off campus: after the 1999 collapse killed twelve, the university never lit Bonfire again and built a memorial on the site, so since 2002 students have stacked and burned their own each autumn.
Q 13Aggie Bonfire symbolised a 'burning desire' to do what?
Beat Texas
Q 21Which U.S. president's library and museum sits on the Texas A&M campus?
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush's library opened in 1997, and he chose its grounds for the family plot: he is buried there beside his wife Barbara and their daughter Robin, who died aged three.
Q 22Which conference did Texas A&M leave to join the SEC on July 1, 2012?
Big 12
Big 12 membership dated from 1996, when the old Southwest Conference broke up; in its very first SEC season A&M went 11-2 and beat top-ranked Alabama on the road.
Q 23What did Texas A&M football win in 1939 and never since?
The national title
The national title came with an 11-0 season and a one-point Sugar Bowl win over Tulane; A&M also claims 1919 and 1927, titles awarded by selectors looking back years later.
Beat Texas, the rival A&M met at the end of each season; tradition held that if the fire was still burning at midnight, the Aggies would win the next day.
Q 14Texas A&M opened as a branch of which university not yet founded?
University of Texas
The University of Texas was still only a plan on paper; it never gained any authority over A&M, and the two ended up fighting over the same state funds instead.
Q 15Which former governor, credited with saving Texas A&M from closure, took over in 1891?
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Lawrence Sullivan Ross lent the struggling college his prestige and steadied its finances; students still leave pennies on his statue before exams, after the 'penny for your thoughts' he is said to have asked for tutoring.
Q 16Which president, a D-Day Ranger commander, desegregated the college and admitted women in the 1960s?
James Earl Rudder
Rudder, class of 1932, took office in 1959. Rudder Tower on campus is named for him.
Q 17What did Texas A&M's 'A&M' first stand for?
Agricultural and Mechanical
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was the name until 1963, when the legislature made it a university and kept the two letters purely as a link to its past.
Q 18Before 'Aggies' became official in 1949, what were Texas A&M students generally called?
Farmers
Farmers was the name until 'Aggies', a common nickname at agricultural colleges, took over in the 1920s; the old one lives on in the yell 'Farmers Fight'.
Q 19Which of these, like Texas A&M, is one of America's six senior military colleges?
The Citadel
The Citadel is one, with VMI, Norwich, Virginia Tech and North Georgia; federal law guarantees active duty to any fit graduate of the six whom the college recommends for an Army commission.
Q 20What are visitors asked to do on entering Texas A&M's Memorial Student Center?
Remove their hats
Remove their hats: the building is a memorial to Aggies killed in war, and its Hall of Honor remembers the seven who earned the Medal of Honor in World War II.
Q 24Which Aggie halfback won the Heisman Trophy in 1957?
John David Crow
John David Crow won after his coach declared that if he didn't, 'they ought to stop giving it'; three decades later he came back to A&M as athletic director.
Q 25Johnny Manziel became the first player to win the Heisman Trophy as what?
A freshman
A freshman had never won it before 'Johnny Football', who had sat out the previous year as a redshirt; he clinched it by producing 345 of A&M's 418 yards in the win at Alabama.
Q 26Which famous coach put Texas A&M through the brutal 'Junction Boys' training camp of 1954?
Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant's ten-day camp, held in a heat wave and a record drought, drove many players to quit; A&M then went 1-9, the only losing season of his 38 years as a head coach.
Q 27What nickname is given to Texas A&M's defenses, which led the nation in total defense in 1991?
The Wrecking Crew
The Wrecking Crew was named not by a coach or a sportswriter but by one of its own players, defensive back Chet Brooks, in the 1980s.
Q 28Who is the winningest head coach in Texas A&M football history?
R. C. Slocum
R. C. Slocum won 123 games in 14 seasons without a single losing year, and was fired all the same at the end of 2002.
Q 29Which coach did Texas A&M hire away from Florida State in December 2017?
Jimbo Fisher
Jimbo Fisher arrived on a ten-year, $75 million contract; when A&M fired him in 2023 it owed him another $77.5 million, at the time the biggest buyout college football had seen.
Q 30Which Texas A&M team beat Notre Dame in 2011 for its first NCAA championship?
Women's basketball
Women's basketball did it under coach Gary Blair, knocking out two top seeds, Baylor and Stanford, before beating Notre Dame 76-70 in the final.