FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!

Colleges & Universities (Part 8) Quiz

Are you ready for Part 8? Identify the college or university by the association. As always, I apologize for the overweighting given to U.S. colleges and universities.

A multiple-choice quiz by LUCA_BRASI. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
LUCA_BRASI

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
314,347

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
544

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What institution's drop-outs have included Richard Hatch ("Survivor"), Edgar Allan Poe, James Whistler, and Timothy Leary?
Hint

United States Military Academy at West Point

Johns Hopkins University

Amherst College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NEXT>

Question 2 of 10

2. What university's economics department has included more Nobel Prize winners and John Bates Clark medalists in economics than any other university?
Hint

Harvard University

University of Chicago

Princeton University

Stanford University

NEXT>

Question 3 of 10

3. For what university golf team did Phil Mickelson play when he became a three-time individual champion at the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships?
Hint

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Arizona State University

University of Florida

University of California, Los Angeles

NEXT>

Question 4 of 10

4. What is the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated almost entirely by undergraduates?
Hint

Princeton University

California Institute of Technology

Reed College

Georgia Tech University

NEXT>

Question 5 of 10

5. What school was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, a Baptist institution of higher learning?
Hint

Bryant University

Brown University

Providence College

Roger Williams University

NEXT>

Question 6 of 10

6. Where did Marc L�pine shoot twenty-eight people, killing fourteen and injuring the other fourteen before killing himself on December 6, 1989?
Hint

�cole Polytechnique de Montr�al

McGill University

Concordia University

Universit� Laval

NEXT>

Question 7 of 10

7. What university has the largest endowment?
Hint

Princeton University

Yale University

Stanford University

Harvard University

NEXT>

Question 8 of 10

8. What university gives a final honours examination called a "tripos"?
Hint

Harvard University

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

Yale University

NEXT>

Question 9 of 10

9. From what university did the group of friends recently graduate in the 1985 Brat Pack film "St. Elmo's Fire"?
Hint

New York University

Boston University

Georgetown University

Columbia University

10. Paul Giamatti, Elia Kazan, Paul Newman, and Meryl Streep are among the notable
alumni of this famous graduate professional school of drama. At what university's School of Drama did they study?
Hint

Yale University

University of Cincinnati

Florida State University

University of Southern California

(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

Select a User ID:

Choose a Password:

Your Email:

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What institution's drop-outs have included Richard Hatch ("Survivor"), Edgar Allan Poe, James Whistler, and Timothy Leary?

Answer: United States Military Academy at West Point

Two famous Goats (last in their class) of West Point were George Pickett and George Armstrong Custer. By contrast, Douglas MacArthur finished first in his 93-person class.

2. What university's economics department has included more Nobel Prize winners and John Bates Clark medalists in economics than any other university?

Answer: University of Chicago

Through 2008, the University of Chicago claims ties to 25 of the 62 individual Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences. Of the 25, six are current members of their faculty. From its inception in 1947 through 2009, Chicago can also claim 17 John Bates medalists. The prestigious John Bates Clark Medal is given biannually by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge".

3. For what university golf team did Phil Mickelson play when he became a three-time individual champion at the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships?

Answer: Arizona State University

The only other previous three-time individual champion had been Ben Crenshaw of the University of Texas. PGA golfer Boo Weekley flunked out of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College where he studied turfgrass science.

4. What is the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated almost entirely by undergraduates?

Answer: Reed College

The Reed College Reactor Facility was established in 1968. Reed College is located in Portland, Oregon.

5. What school was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, a Baptist institution of higher learning?

Answer: Brown University

At the time, Brown was the only college that welcomed students of all religious
persuasions (following the example of Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island in 1636 on the same principle). Subsequently, Brown has shed its Baptist affiliation, but remains dedicated to diversity and intellectual freedom.

6. Where did Marc L�pine shoot twenty-eight people, killing fourteen and injuring the other fourteen before killing himself on December 6, 1989?

Answer: �cole Polytechnique de Montr�al

The fourteen killed were all women; L�pine's suicide note blamed feminists for ruining his life. The 2009 Quebec film "Polytechnique" is a dramatization of the �cole Polytechnique Massacre.

7. What university has the largest endowment?

Answer: Harvard University

The top 4 educational endowments at the end of the 2008 fiscal year (total assets in billions): 1. Harvard $36.6 ; 2. Yale $22.9; 3. Stanford $17.2; and
4. $Princeton 16.3.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to open in September 2009 with an endowment of $10 billion.

8. What university gives a final honours examination called a "tripos"?

Answer: University of Cambridge

Compact OED: "ORIGIN from Latin tripus 'tripod', with reference to the stool on which a designated graduate sat to deliver a satirical speech at the degree ceremony." Mathematics Tripos is the oldest tripos (subject) that is examined in Cambridge.

9. From what university did the group of friends recently graduate in the 1985 Brat Pack film "St. Elmo's Fire"?

Answer: Georgetown University

The film starred Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd
Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Mare Winningham. (The only two Brat Packers not in this film were Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald.) "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", a song recorded by John Parr and used as a theme song for the film, hit number one on the "Billboard Hot 100" on September 7, 1985.

10. Paul Giamatti, Elia Kazan, Paul Newman, and Meryl Streep are among the notable alumni of this famous graduate professional school of drama. At what university's School of Drama did they study?

Answer: Yale University

Established in 1924, the Department of Drama at Yale was organized as the Yale
School of Drama, a separate professional school in 1955. Jodi Foster did not attend the graduate School of Drama, but she did earn a B.A. in Literature from Yale, graduating magna cum laude.

Source: Author LUCA_BRASI

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor ladymacb29 before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.