“How Well Do You Know Spring Break?”

Whether you're going to Cancun, Acapulco, or lovely Puerto Vallarta, you know it's time to pack up your thongs and beer bongs and head south for Spring Break. But do you know what you're really getting yourself into? Take our Spring Break Quiz for all the odd history and weird facts about this suds-and-Jell-O-packed tradition.

Question 1

In 1998, an over-anxious high school senior in Portland Ore., chartered a 727 to a Mexican resort. FAA regulations were violated when...

A. Participants in a wet T-shirt competition entered the cockpit so the pilots could act as judges.

B. Students shared a tapped keg of beer with flight attendants.

C. A fake-orgasm contest was broadcast over the intercom.

D. Everyone operated their hand-held electronic devices upon take off.

Answer A. When airplane pilots can no longer judge mile-high wet T-shirt contests involving high school students, the terrorists have won.


In 1981, an under-funded, high school senior in Fayetteville, NC, hustled Coca-Cola bottles to get gas money for his Linda Blair puke-green Ford Pinto, because a female friend told him Angela Dew was at her party asking questions about him in a way that suggested she would do things with him that he'd only done with his hand at that point. (She would not.) The only things violated were his self-respect, his dignity, and his relationship with his friend, Tammy Monroe (who, if there's anything to voodoo, has died screaming in a fire by now).