Fictional Colleges or Universities in Movies Quiz

Answer: Atlanta A&T University

The 2002 film "Drumline" was about a struggling marching band program at a fictional Atlanta A&T University. Atlanta A&T was a historically black college in urban Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta A&T took enormous pride in its marching band and had a rigorous band camp, as shown at the beginning of the movie. The Atlanta A&T marching band was being overshadowed at the beginning of the movie by the marching band at a local rival school, Morris Brown College.

The marching band, led by director Dr. Lee (played by Orlando Jones), was under pressure from the school's president and rich boosters to change the direction of the program or lose funding. The Atlanta A&T University marching band defeated the rival Morris Brown College band as well as several other college bands to win the BET Big Southern Classic band competition.

Answer: Darwin and Huxley Colleges

The 1932 Marx Brothers comedy movie "Horse Feathers" was about college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Darwin and Huxley Colleges were named after biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin. The movie starred the four Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd.

The movie contained many of Marx Brothers' stage routines. During the movie, the Marx brothers made many jokes about the amateur status of collegiate student athletes and how eligibility rules were stretched by collegiate athletic departments.

Answer: Faber College

The 1978 movie "Animal House" was about the war between the misfit fraternity Delta Tau Chi and Vernon Wormer, the dean of the fictional Faber College. Faber College was founded by philanthropist Emil Faber and was located in Pennsylvania's Saquatashog river valley. In the opening credits of the movie, a statue was shown honoring Faber's with the inscription "Knowledge is Good".

Faber College's Dean Wormer wanted to maintain order on his campus, so he put the renegade Delta Tau Chi fraternity on "double secret probation" so he could easily have the fraternity removed from the campus. The fraternity was removed from campus after throwing a wild toga party so they constructed a parade float and wreaked havoc on the school's homecoming parade.

Answer: Adams College

Fictional Adams College was the scene of an epic fraternity battle in the 1984 movie "Revenge of the Nerds". It was implied, at the beginning of the movie, that Adams College was a top notch school in the country, with a good computer science program. The school was socially run by the Alpha Betas, the top fraternity at the school and the fraternity containing the school's football team.

The Alpha Betas began to push around a group of nerdy freshmen. These freshmen formed a chapter of Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity and defeated the Alpha Beta's at the school's Homecoming Greek Games. Due to their victory at the Greek Games, the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity took control of the school's Greek Council and became the leading fraternity at Adam's college.

Answer: Texas State University

The 1991 movie "Necessary Roughness" starred Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Loggia and Sinbad. The movie was about the fictional Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team. At the beginning of the movie, Texas State had won the two consecutive national titles in football but a news report showed that the program was hit with massive NCAA penalties, including the loss of all athletic scholarships. Texas State had to rebuild a new team from the student body and had to compete that season with only seventeen players on their roster.

Answer: Grand Lakes University

Thornton Melon was played by Rodney Dangerfield in 1986 film "Back to School". Thornton Melon decided to attend the fictional Grand Lakes University with his son Jason, as a means of keeping Jason from dropping out. Melon was admitted to the school after making a huge donation to the university's business school. Thornton helped the school's diving team win at the championship swim meet by performing he legendary Triple Lindy dive. Thornton passed all of his classes his first semester with D's except for his literature class which he receives an A.

Answer: Pacific Tech

Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret play two prodigies attending Pacific Tech in California in the 1985 movie "Real Genius". Pacific Tech professor Jerry Hathaway was hired by the CIA to work on a laser project and had his talented students, played by Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret, labor on this project.

When recruiting Mitch Taylor (played by Gabriel Jarret) to work on the laser project, professor Jerry Hathaway implied that Pacific Tech was considered an elite Science and Technology university.

Answer: Western University

"Blue Chips" was a 1994 film about the basketball program at a fictional Western University. After Western was shown losing the last two games of the season, head coach Pete Bell, played by Nick Nolte, was under pressure to bring his Dolphin program back to its winning ways. So Bell decided to enlist the help of a "friend of the program" booster to help him land several "blue chip" recruits such as Neon Boudeaux (played by Shaquille O'Neal) and Butch McRae (played by Anfernee Hardaway).

At the end of the movie, Western University defeated the #1 basketball team in the country, University of Indiana Hoosiers, with the help of the new freshmen.

Answer: South Harmon Institute of Technology

The plot of the 2006 film "Accepted" revolves around how four high school graduates created the South Harmon Institute of Technology after they got rejected from their colleges of choice. The South Harmon Institute of Technology was in the same town as a prestigious Harmon College.

The four students went to great lengths to fool their parents into thinking that the school was legitimate. They created a fully functional web site for the school, hired an ex-professor to play the Dean and leased an abandoned psychiatric hospital adjacent to the local Harmon College and renovated it to look like a college campus.

Answer: Coolidge College

Ryan Reynolds played Van Wilder, a seventh year senior at Coolidge College, in the 2002 film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder". In the beginning of the movie, Van was shown to be a popular student at Coolidge College who spent his time organizing parties and school fundraisers instead of trying to graduate from college.

His last semester, he audited his last seven and graduated from Coolidge College.