Eleven Warriors Trivia: Test your knowledge of Iowa and Ohio State history against the Hawkeyes
Put on your thinking skills, it’s time for some anecdotes.
Eleven Warriors is home to the most discerning Buckeye fans on the planet. Now is the time for you to prove it.
We’ll be hosting a 10-question quiz each week to test your knowledge of Ohio State football and its upcoming opponent. Before the 3:30 p.m. kickoff on CBS, we’ll see what you know about this week’s opponent, Iowa.
There are two simple rules: please use your brain (not a search engine) and only play once.
Note: After answering all the questions, you must click “Complete Quiz” to see your results.
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The correct answers to last week’s quiz and the percentage of participants who answered each question correctly can be found in the table below.
No. | QUESTION | GOOD ANSWER | % CORRECT |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Four players from Lincoln Country are on Ohio State’s 2026 roster. Three of the Buckeyes are WR Nolan Baudo, LB Zach Hayes and TE Hunter Welcing. Who is the pundit in the photo above who lists his hometown as Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and who had a “kick” during his time in South Bend, Indiana, last season? | Marcello Diomede | 43% |
2 | What city is the main campus of the University of Illinois located in? | Urbana-Champaign | 99% |
3 | The last time Ohio State lost a Big Ten opener to Illinois was in 1990. Who started at quarterback for the Buckeyes? The Ohio native was 18/32 passing for 244 yards, but threw 4 interceptions in the 31-20 loss to the Illini at Ohio Stadium. | Greg Frey | 32% |
4 | Saturday will be Ohio State’s 114th Big Ten opener and the team is 86-23-4 in games to begin conference play. Which team below has never beaten the Buckeyes to open the conference? NOTE: This question has been edited. There was previously an error which has been corrected. The punishment of the author will be discussed next week. | Washington | 19% |
5 | Bret Bielema is currently the head coach at Illinois. Prior to his time with the Illini, he was the head coach at Arkansas (2013-17) and Wisconsin (2006-12). Bielema began his coaching career as a graduate assistant (1994) and linebackers coach (1996-2001) under a College Football Hall of Fame head coach for which Big Ten team? | Iowa | 69% |
6 | Pepe Pearson and this great Lancaster Buckeye share the program record for longest run against the Illini, each completing a 76-yard jaunt. Ohio State scored 48 points in the two games. The difference between the two players is that Pearson did not score in the 1996 game. Who ran for a 76-yard touchdown against Illinois in the 48-29 victory on October 24, 1970? | Rex Kern | 64% |
7 | This billionaire attended Illinois, but dropped out. He supports the Michigan NIL because his sixth wife, Jolin, graduated from the Ann Arbor school. Who is he? | Larry Ellison | 94% |
8 | Four Buckeyes have scored five touchdowns in a game. Two of the four 5 TD games were against Illinois. Carlos Hyde accomplished this feat in 2013, what did Buckeye below do against the Illini with his famous 67-yard shoeless run in 1984? | Keith Byars | 47% |
9 | On October 15, 2011, Ohio State finished the game 1 of 4 passing for 17 yards against the Illini. The lone completion was the lowest team total for the Buckeyes against Illinois in the last 80 years. Who was Ohio State’s starting quarterback? | Braxton Miller | 47% |
10 | Bret Bielema is one of four people to face Ohio State as head coach of two different teams: Wisconsin and Illinois. Alex Agase (Northwestern and Purdue) and John Pont (Indiana and Northwestern) are two of the three remaining. Which coach below led Illinois (1977-1979) and Michigan (1990-1994) against the Buckeyes? | Gary Moeller | 74% |
Overall, the Eleven Warriors community selected the correct answer to 8 out of 10 questions.
42% incorrectly selected Kirk Herbstreit as the final Buckeye starting quarterback to lose to the Illini in a Big Ten season opener.
54% identified Michigan* as the team that would not beat Ohio State in the Big Ten season opener.
*I wanted to make it about layups and Washington was supposed to be the option instead of Wisconsin. As I typed in the correct possible answers, my subconscious must have stopped me from writing “Washington” because it was screaming, “Washington is not a Big Ten team, you idiot.”
Due to my mistake, the community will be marked as missing a single question.
Possible punishments for this mistake were something with a red solo cup, a Taco Bell menu item, or Johnny Knoxville’s ears of pain. However, I will opt for the punishment that Dear Abby would give herself for a mistake: forty lashes with a wet noodle.
SEASON | GRADE |
|---|---|
2026 | 90% (36 correct, 4 incorrect) |
2025 | 90.7% (127 correct, 13 incorrect) |
2024 | 90.6% (145 correct, 15 incorrect) |
2023 | 82.5% (99 correct, 21 incorrect) |
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