Colleges & Universities (Part 4) Quiz

Answer: The London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE describes itself as "the world's leading social science institution for teaching and research". The Fabian Society is a British intellectual socialist movement that favors a gradual, rather than revolutionary, approach to achieve its goals.

Answer: University of Pennsylvania

Although ENIAC was 100 feet long, 10 feet high, and weighed 30 tons, a chip of silicon measuring 0.02 inches square in 2007 held the same capacity as all of ENIAC. ENIAC stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.

Answer: Yale University

Cole Porter was a member of the 1913 lineup of the Whiffenpoofs when he was a
student at Yale. "The Whiffenpoof Song" includes the familiar verse:
"We are poor little lambs
Who have lost our way.
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We are little black sheep
Who have gone astray.
Baa! Baa! Baa!"

Answer: Indiana University

The Little 500 website quotes Lance Armstrong as saying, "I've attended Super Bowls, World Series and the Monaco Grand Prix, but the coolest event I ever attended was the Little 500." The film "Breaking Away" was nominated for five Academy Awards: screenwriter Steve Tesich won an Oscar for his original screenplay.

Answer: Brandeis University

Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie" recounts his time spent with an old sociology professor at Brandeis, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying from ALS. The memoir spent more than four years on the national bestseller list of the "New York Times".

Answer: Pennsylvania State University

The Big Ten Conference is the oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its other ten members are: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota,Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, and Wisconsin. The University of Chicago, a cofounder of the conference, was a member from 1896 to 1946.

Answer: Syracuse University

Jim Brown was named as the greatest professional football player ever by "The
Sporting News" in 2002. Ernie Davis, the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy, was the subject of the 2008 movie biography, "The Express." Known as "The Franchise" in Denver where he played for the Broncos, Floyd Little led the NFL in rushing for the six-year period from 1968-73.

Answer: University of Toronto

The Nobel Prize committee in 1923 credited the practical extraction of insulin to a team at the University of Toronto and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod for the discovery of insulin. Forty years later, the stem cell was discovered at the university.

Answer: Brigham Young University

Fall 2008 undergraduate enrollment reached 35,300 at Liberty University, the world's largest Christian Evangelical university. However, distance learning enrollment represented 24,000 of the total and residential enrollment only 11,300. BYU led all religious schools handily with over 30,000 undergraduates attending the physical campus at Provo, of which approximately 98% were Mormon.

Answer: Duke University

James Buchanan Duke amassed his fortune through his ownership of the American Tobacco Company and later through electric power. In 1924 he established the Duke Endowment that funded Trinity College, later renamed Duke University in honor of his father. Ezra Cornell, co-founder of Cornell University, made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse and as founder of Western Union. William Marsh Rice started Rice University from his fortune earned by trading cotton and investing in land and railroads. Vanderbilt University was named for Cornelius Vanderbilt because the "Commodore" provided the university with an endowment of one million dollars.