Late Morning Trivia! [Blacksburg Style!]
Some trivia about our favorite town you may have picked up in your stay there.
1. What creek that runs through VT was the creek explored by Batts & Fallam in 1671?
2. What year did the Lyric Theatre Open?
3. What year was Smithfield Plantation built?
4. To the nearest square mile how big is Blacksburg?
5. Solitude is the oldest building at VT, Name one of the VT Organizations that was housed there?
6. Name the Oldest Academic Building in continual use at VT?
7. Name the Oldest Academic Building on the Drill Field?
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2mo
I have an 1868 Canal and Railroad map that has them listed that way
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2mo
Colonel Thomas Graham, a wealthy investor from Philadelphia.
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2mo
Guy won a nobel prize in Economics but the whole thing got moved up to George Mason U.
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2mo
1. What creek that runs through VT was the creek explored by Batts & Fallam in 1671? Stroubles Creek
2. What year did the Lyric Theatre Open? 1930
3. What year was Smithfield Plantation built? 1774
4. To the nearest square mile how big is Blacksburg? 19.77sq miles
5. Solitude is the oldest building at VT, Name one of the VT Organizations that was there? Hokie Club 1960-1970
6. Name the Oldest Academic Building in continual use at VT? Lane Hall completed in 1888
7. Name the Oldest Academic Building on the Drill Field? Price Hall completed in 1907
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2mo
continual use.
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2mo
;^)
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2mo
years.
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2mo
They really bug me in ways that I can't put into words. ;^)
Went to a presentation on CNRE there in the fall. I think that's my daughter's first choice, probably Wildlife Conservation, but also with a minor in Entomology. We'll see next year around this time (hopefully earlier) if she gets in.
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2mo
he would often recite this little passage about one of his professors, though I never knew why:
"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell
The reason why, I cannot tell
But this I know, and know full well
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell"
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2mo
as they don't have a major. At dinner after last fall's Open House, I asked her straight up, "So, you want to be the Bug Girl?" She was like, "Yeah, I guess. Yep, I'm gonna be the Bug Girl." Yay, science! \o/
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2mo
...that anyone would dislike him...lol.
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2mo
the creek through much of what today is Blacksburg in the 17th century.
** Edited by UTPr0sim at 5/22/2026, 8:18:36 AM
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