Students camp out for weeks for tickets to the North Carolina game. But if demand is high enough, to earn a spot in line, they must pass a notoriously tricky basketball trivia exam.

A perplexing exam — on which a high score could help confer a full-ride scholarship to Michigan State — attracted hundreds of ambitious high school seniors to East Lansing last month.

What was supposed to be a routine SAT day at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas ended in a full campus evacuation Saturday, after a bomb threat forced students to abandon their tests and clear the ...