Missouri
Founders Day trivia
Feb. 11, 2025
Contact: Janese Heavin, heavinj@missouri.edu
1. What year was the University of Missouri founded?
The University of Missouri was established through the Geyer Act as the first public higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River.
2. Who said, “Let them stand a thousand years”?
After a fire destroyed Academic Hall, this president of the University of Missouri Board of Curators ordered that the now iconic Columns be torn down. After numerous pleas to save them, he had a change of heart and spoke these immortal words: “Let the Columns stand. Let them stand for a thousand years.”
3. What are the names of the current mules on the Missouri Mule Team? (There are six mules total.)
A fixture at Mizzou since 1984, the Missouri Mule Team is the outreach arm of the College of Veterinary Medicine and a goodwill ambassador for Mizzou. Cared for by members of the Mule Club, the mules can be seen at a variety of public events, including the Mizzou Homecoming Parade.
4. Who did the Mizzou Football team play in the first Homecoming game?
In 1911, MU athletic director Chester Brewer invited alumni to “come home” and support the football team as they played this opponent in Columbia for the first time.
5. What campus facility conducts groundbreaking research to create lifesaving radiopharmaceuticals?
This facility became operational in 1966. For nearly 60 years, it has conducted groundbreaking research and collaborated with industry partners to develop unique, lifesaving products.
6. What beloved student hangout was destroyed by a fire in 1988?
In 2011, Mort’s opened in the MU Student Center as a reinvention of the once popular campus hotspot. For more than 50 years, its original building was where the Reynolds Alumni Center now stands.
7. Which Mizzou professor was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
After the award was announced, the distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences quickly became a campus celebrity. He began working at MU in 1975 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the phage display.
8. Which Grammy Award-winning music artist graduated from Mizzou in 1984?
Born in Kennet, Missouri, this alumna has won nine Grammy Awards and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As a student, she was crowned Homecoming Queen and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
9. Who is the winningest Mizzou Basketball coach?
Taking over as the Tiger basketball coach in 1967, he would go on to earn 731 career wins — 634 of which he won at Mizzou. He is an MU alumnus and was a member of the 1954 National Champion Mizzou Baseball team.
10. What comic strip character was created by Mizzou alumnus Mort Walker?
Mort Walker first started creating cartoons and comic strips for Showme, a college humor magazine on campus. After graduation, an editor encouraged Walker to draw cartoons based on his college experiences, and this iconic character was born.
Answers:
1. 1839
2. Gideon Rothwell
3. Tim, Terry, Boone, George, Bess and Rose
4. University of Kansas
5. MU Research Reactor
6. The Shack
7. George P. Smith
8. Sheryl Crow
9. Norm Stewart
10. Beetle Bailey
Missouri
Missouri Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 winning numbers for March 25, 2026
The Missouri Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at March 25, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from March 25 drawing
07-21-55-56-64, Powerball: 26, Power Play: 4
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from March 25 drawing
Midday: 3-2-0
Midday Wild: 7
Evening: 0-0-5
Evening Wild: 5
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from March 25 drawing
Midday: 2-6-3-9
Midday Wild: 4
Evening: 9-5-6-8
Evening Wild: 1
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Cash Pop numbers from March 25 drawing
Early Bird: 07
Morning: 09
Matinee: 04
Prime Time: 14
Night Owl: 07
Check Cash Pop payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Show Me Cash numbers from March 25 drawing
12-14-22-26-28
Check Show Me Cash payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Powerball Double Play numbers from March 25 drawing
35-38-41-43-62, Powerball: 08
Check Powerball Double Play payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
All Missouri Lottery retailers can redeem prizes up to $600. For prizes over $600, winners have the option to submit their claim by mail or in person at one of Missouri Lottery’s regional offices, by appointment only.
To claim by mail, complete a Missouri Lottery winner claim form, sign your winning ticket, and include a copy of your government-issued photo ID along with a completed IRS Form W-9. Ensure your name, address, telephone number and signature are on the back of your ticket. Claims should be mailed to:
Ticket Redemption
Missouri Lottery
P.O. Box 7777
Jefferson City, MO 65102-7777
For in-person claims, visit the Missouri Lottery Headquarters in Jefferson City or one of the regional offices in Kansas City, Springfield or St. Louis. Be sure to call ahead to verify hours and check if an appointment is required.
For additional instructions or to download the claim form, visit the Missouri Lottery prize claim page.
When are the Missouri Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
- Pick 3: 12:45 p.m. (Midday) and 8:59 p.m. (Evening) daily.
- Pick 4: 12:45 p.m. (Midday) and 8:59 p.m. (Evening) daily.
- Cash4Life: 8 p.m. daily.
- Cash Pop: 8 a.m. (Early Bird), 11 a.m. (Late Morning), 3 p.m. (Matinee), 7 p.m. (Prime Time) and 11 p.m. (Night Owl) daily.
- Show Me Cash: 8:59 p.m. daily.
- Lotto: 8:59 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.
- Powerball Double Play: 9:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Missouri editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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Missouri AG orders 13 unlicensed Kansas City dispensaries to stop selling products
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Dozens of dispensaries have been ordered to close after Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said they are selling without licenses.
The AG’s office sent cease-and-desist letters to 33 dispensaries. Of those, 13 are in the Kansas City area, according to information provided by the state.
Each location is accused of selling cannabis or marijuana products without a state license, or selling other products deceptively marketed as marijuana, according to Hanaway.
Hanaway’s office also said testing found some products contained things such as lead, arsenic, and ethanol. They also used deceptive labeling and packaging, including designs that may target children, according to a news release.
Here are the locations named by the AG’s office:
- Big Chiefs Kush Waldo (Kansas City)
- Dr. Smoke (Kansas City)
- It’s A Dream (Kansas City)
- KC Kush (Kansas City)
- Main Smoke Shop KC (Kansas City)
- Mr. Niceguy (Kansas City)
- Prohibition Cannabis (Kansas City)
- Center Smoke Shop (Independence)
- Gray Area Cannabis (Independence)
- Herb Depot (Independence)
- Sacred Leaf (Independence)
- Super E Cig Smoke Shop (St. Joseph)
- Vapor Maven (Cameron)
The letters demand each of the above the businesses stop selling the products in question.
The full letter sent to the businesses is below.
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Missouri Senate committee hears bill on private school bathroom policies for transgender students
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Missouri lawmakers are once again debating restrictions involving transgender students.
A Missouri Senate committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow private schools to enforce bathroom and locker room policies based on gender assigned at birth on Tuesday morning. Senate Bill 1558 would prevent cities, counties, or other local municipalities from adopting ordinances that would force a private school to change its bathroom policy, and defend private schools from lawsuits about bathroom use with state funds.
The bill was introduced following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that students can use the bathroom that matches their preferred gender. Republican lawmakers want to keep that ruling from applying to private schools in Missouri.
Senate Education Chairman, Republican Sen. Rick Brattin, defended the legislation during the committee hearing.
“I think this is common sense, and it’s unfortunate we have to actually pass legislation like this,” Brattin said. “Now all of a sudden it’s like, we’ve created this social contagion that no one knows what sex they are or that it’s a ‘construct’, but society for all of human history has been male and female.”
Guillermo Villa-Trueba, PhD, a lobbyist for the Missouri Catholic Conference, testified in support of the bill on behalf of religious private schools.
“It’s very helpful for Catholic schools and private religious schools in general so we can enact policies that align with our religious beliefs and with biology,” Villa-Trueba said.
Democratic State Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern said the legislature spends too much time on bathroom-related legislation.
“Here in the education committee, we have spent a tremendous amount of time talking about these issues,” Nurrenbern said. “And I can say in the last six years working in the education committees, both in the House and Senate, I am tired of talking about bathrooms, and I wish we could spend a heck of a lot more time talking about classrooms.”
Samantha Jones, a Missourian who testified against the bill, said the measure is based on incorrect assumptions. Jones drew on her own experiences as an intersex person.
“It is an incorrect assumption that gender is rigidly binary and that sex is as well,” Jones said. “Attacking the transgender and nonbinary and intersex community is an unnecessary waste of time, tax dollars and other state resources.”
The bill is one of 52 measures dealing with transgender issues being considered by Missouri lawmakers. Missouri currently has no statewide regulations on which bathrooms transgender people can use in public. Twenty-one other states, including Kansas, have some kind of regulation in place.
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