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A fact from Great Rose Bowl Hoax appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March.

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Excellent article! Thanks for writing it! Royalbroil 18:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC) reply

• Why is it called "a hoax"? It actually took place, didn't it? Shouldn't the article be moved to "Great Rose Bowl prank"? - Mike Rosoft 20:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC) reply
  • Pretty much every source calls it the Great Rose Bowl Hoax, a 4-word proper noun, so we shouldn't move it. As for whether the name is accurate ... eh, probably not entirely. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC) reply

what was it *supposed* to say? zaiken 22:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaiken ( talk • contribs)

It was a hoax in as much as Cal Tech was not playing in the Rose Bowl game. Wschart ( talk) 19:00, 2 September 2019 (UTC) reply