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Colleges & Universities (Part 1) Quiz

Identify the college or university by the association. 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 #
309,281

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first self-sustained nuclear reaction on what college campus? Hint

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Princeton University

University of Chicago

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Question 2 of 10

2. Booker T. Washington was the first principal of what present-day university? Hint

Howard University

Alcorn State University

Tuskegee University

Fisk University

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States? Hint

Yale University

College of Willliam and Mary

Harvard University

Princeton University

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Question 4 of 10

4. At what Washington, D.C. university have all the diplomas been signed by the current U.S. President of the time? Hint

George Washington University

Howard University

Georgetown University

Gallaudet University

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Question 5 of 10

5. Since 2003, what Chinese university has produced its Academic Ranking of World Universities? Hint

Beijing Normal University

Peking University

Nanjing University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Question 6 of 10

6. What campus is the main setting of the 2004 best-selling novel, "The Rule of Four"? Hint

Princeton University

University of Oxford

Grinnell College

Yale University

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Question 7 of 10

7. At what university were the transuranium elements 93 through 103 first synthesized? Hint

University of California (Berkeley)

University of Cambridge

Harvard University

University of Chicago

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Question 8 of 10

8. What was the first American coeducational college? Hint

Oberlin College

Grinnell College

Antioch College

Middlebury College

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Question 9 of 10

9. What is the setting of Sigmund Romberg's operetta, "The Student Prince"? Hint

Charles University in Prague

University of Heidelberg

University of Copenhagen

University of Vienna

10. Fourteen students from what university planned and executed the Great Rose Bowl
Hoax of 1961, in which the students managed to change the card stunt of one of teams playing, so that the name of their school was displayed by the card section instead of the intended image?
Hint

California Institute of Technology

University of California (Berkeley)

Stanford University

University of Michigan

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first self-sustained nuclear reaction on what college campus?

Answer: University of Chicago

This historic event occurred under the west stands of the abandoned (first) Stagg Field. Fermi had earlier been the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his work on induced radioactivity.

2. Booker T. Washington was the first principal of what present-day university?

Answer: Tuskegee University

Born to slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington became head of the new Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881 at the age of 25. The initial "T" in his name stands for Taliaferro.

3. What is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States?

Answer: Harvard University

The four oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S. to conduct classes are Harvard (1636), William & Mary (1693), Yale (1701), and Princeton (1746). Harvard also holds the distinction of being the oldest corporation in the western hemisphere.

4. At what Washington, D.C. university have all the diplomas been signed by the current U.S. President of the time?

Answer: Gallaudet University

This practice began at the first commencement in 1869 at which President Ulysses S. Grant had the honor. Established in 1864, Gallaudet was the first school for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the world.

5. Since 2003, what Chinese university has produced its Academic Ranking of World Universities?

Answer: Shanghai Jiao Tong University

The top five in its initial 2003 rankings were (in order): Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, and Cambridge. It ranked itself in the 401-450 group. Other organizations that produce worldwide rankings include the "Times Higher Education" magazine, "Newsweek" magazine, and the Cybermetrics Lab.

6. What campus is the main setting of the 2004 best-selling novel, "The Rule of Four"?

Answer: Princeton University

"The Rule of Four" is the debut novel of the childhood friends, Ian Caldwell, a Princeton graduate, and Dustin Thomason, a Harvard graduate. The novel features many Princeton traditions including its eating clubs and its now banned (sigh!) Nude Olympics. Read it. In my opinion, it is superior to "The Da Vinci Code".

7. At what university were the transuranium elements 93 through 103 first synthesized?

Answer: University of California (Berkeley)

Teams at Berkeley led by Edwin Mattison McMillan (neptunium), Glenn T. Seaborg (plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, and californium), and Albert Ghiorso (einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, and lawrencium) produced the first eleven transuranium elements. The Ghiorso team later synthesized element 106 in 1974, which they named seaborgium in honor of the aforementioned Glenn T. Seaborg.

8. What was the first American coeducational college?

Answer: Oberlin College

Oberlin Collegiate Institute, the forerunner of Oberlin College, opened on Dec. 3, 1833 with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women. In 1841, it became the first American college to confer degrees on women when three women graduated with bachelor's degrees.

9. What is the setting of Sigmund Romberg's operetta, "The Student Prince"?

Answer: University of Heidelberg

"The Student Prince" was the most successful of Sigmund Romberg's operettas. Grab a stein of beer and listen to Mario Lanza sing the "Drinking Song" with its familiar "Drink! Drink! Drink!" chorus. Cheers!

10. Fourteen students from what university planned and executed the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961, in which the students managed to change the card stunt of one of teams playing, so that the name of their school was displayed by the card section instead of the intended image?

Answer: California Institute of Technology

The 1961 Rose Bowl featured the Big Ten champions University of Minnesota Golden Gophers playing the Pac-10 champions University of Washington Huskies. The "Fiendish Fourteen" changed 2,232 Washington instruction sheets, so that a number of images were incorrect, climaxing in the display of "CALTECH". The prank was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers across the United States.

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