Schools That Never Really Were, District 4 Quiz

Answer: Faber College

The "men" of Delta (Tau Chi) House were students at Faber College. The producers sought to film the motion picture at the University of Missouri but were turned down by administrators who thought the film might reflect badly on the institution. The University of Oregon was persuaded to permit the filming on their campus in Eugene. While the university at first sought to conceal its participation in "Animal House," it is now a source of pride. For example, the Otis Day and the Knights version of the rock song "Shout," which figures in the film, is now sung at U of O football games.

Answer: a language school

Luigi Basco was an Italian immigrant in Chicago where he attended night school to learn English (and become a U.S. citizen). Most of his adventures centred on the school e.g. with Schultz (a German immigrant played by Hans Conried) and Miss Spaulding (the teacher played by Mary Shipp). Each radio episode was framed by a letter which Luigi was writing to his mother back in Italy about what had happened to him that week. The series ran on CBS Radio from 1948 to 1953 and briefly on television in 1952. The TV version was cancelled because of complaints from Italian-Americans.

Answer: Macdonald Hall

John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867-1873, 1878-1891). The YA book series was originally named "Bruno and Boots" for the protagonists (Bruno Walton and Melvin "Boots" O'Neal) but changed to "Macdonald Hall" for their school. The school is a private boys school outside of Toronto.

The boys are constantly in trouble with headmaster William R. Sturgeon, known by students as "The Fish." Macdonald Hall is just across the street from Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies. Books in the series include "This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall" (1978), "Go Jump in the Pool" (1979), "Beware the Fish!" (1980), "The War with Mr. Wizzle" (1982), "The Zucchini Warriors" (1988), "Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood" (1991) and "Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall" (1995).

Answer: University of Los Angeles

A lot changed between the third and fourth seasons of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid replaced Janet Hubert-Whitten as Aunt Viv. The University of Los Angeles replaced Bel-Air Academy as the academic setting. The cousins do the undergraduate thing: fraternity rush and pledging, student jobs, Carlton losing his virginity.

In the end, Carlton transfers to Princeton while Will stays behind in California.

Answer: Maximegalon

The dictionary at the University of Maximegalon is so large that it requires a fleet of trucks to move it, there being only one copy in existence. The History Department of the University of Maximegalon was disbanded when the Infinite Improbability Drive was created and began to turn whole planets into banana fruitcake; their building was turned over to the Divinity and Water Polo faculties.

The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (MISPWOSO) conducted the great Herring Sandwich experiment which proved that the driving force behind all change is herring sandwiches, which theory was later disproved.

The Milliard Gargantu-Brain is capable of counting all of the atoms in a star in a millisecond but who cares?

Answer: Medfield College

Medfield College was named after the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, where Walt Disney had friends he would visit from time to time. The cornerstone of the old Medfield High School (now Medfield Middle School) bears the inscription "Our greatest natural resource is in the minds of our children" -- a quote from Walt Disney. Exteriors of Medfield College were shot on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California. Medfield made one last appearance in the Robin Williams remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor" in 1997.

Answer: Winston University Medical School

In season 9, Sacred Heart Hospital has been torn down and rebuilt on the campus of Winston University. Continuing cast members are now med school faculty members. Winston University is located in San DiFrangeles, California. Writers chose the school's name with reference to their producer Randall Winston.

In the first episode of Season 9, Professor Dr. Cox says, "To call this particular school a 'craphouse' would be an honest-to-God compliment."

Answer: It is a sham, a fake, not a real college.

Bartleby Gaines (played by Justin Long) is rejected by every college and university to which he applies. To fool his father, he invents a college, names it the South Harmon Institute of Technology, creates a website for the school and sends himself a congratulatory admission letter. Bartleby even concocts a student newspaper named after the college's initials. Always on the cusp of being found out, he resolves his greatest challenge in an unexpected and satisfying fashion.

Answer: in Cornwall

Often compared to Enid Blyton's school novels set at Malory Towers (which was also located in Cornwall), Digby's books described Rebecca Mason and her chums as they progressed from second form through their fifth year. Rebecca is an accomplished tennis player and amateur detective. She is often engaged in adventure with her boyfriend Robbie Anderson and/or her girlfriends Tish Anderson and Susan Murdoch. Digby (b. 1942 -- or possibly 1935) has also written a wide variety of other children's literature.

Answer: Coolidge College

Coolidge College is the setting not only for the original 2002 film but also for the sequel, "Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj" (2006) and the prequel, "Van Wilder: Freshman Year" (2009). Van Wilder (played by Ryan Reynolds) is a perpetual underclassman who is forced to complete his degree by circumstances beyond his control.

The humour is largely sophomoric. For example, two of the fraternities which figure in the story are Lambda Omega Omega and Delta Iota Kappa. In 1997, American stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer was written up by Rolling Stone which described him as "the top partier at the Number One Party School [Florida State University] in the country." This article was apparently the genesis from which Van Wilder grew.