Pop Quiz: Western Kentucky Trivia

Pop Quiz is back this week!  After receiving some positive feedback from the first edition, I decided to stay the course with this brand new series.  Western Kentucky is next up on the schedule for the Fighting Illini as they look to improve on their Week 1 performance.

I promised a few more questions this week, but as you can see I ran into a small problem:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Fun Fact: There aren&#39;t many fun facts about Western Kentucky.</p>&mdash; The Champaign Room (@Champaign_Room) <a href="https://twitter.com/Champaign_Room/statuses/506642442267795457">September 2, 2014</a></blockquote>

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The wikipedia page was lacking, to say the least.  I did however manage to scrape together 10 questions for this week's quiz (no applause necessary).  Make sure to stop by the comments section once you've finished to share your results!

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