Colleges & Universities (Part 11) Quiz

Answer: Carnegie Mellon University

Randy Pausch's last lecture was titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". It was part of a "Last Lecture" series, renamed "Journeys", in which a Carnegie Mellon staff member would give a hypothetical "final talk" based on his or her professional experiences.

In Randy Pausch's case, he had just been given a terminal diagnosis with respect to his pancreatic cancer a month earlier in August 2007. "The Last Lecture", a book based on his lecture co-authored by Jeffrey Zaslow, spent 102 consecutive weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list. Pausch died July 25, 2008 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Answer: Uppsala University

Uppsala is the oldest university in the Nordic countries. Other notable people affiliated with the university include novelist and playwright August Strindberg and UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld.

Answer: University of Iowa

The Program in Creative Writing is more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Its alumni have won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. Its visiting and permanent faculty have included Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Robert Lowell and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Answer: Simon Fraser University

The SFU Clan will compete in the NCAA's Division II in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference beginning with the 2011-12 season. The main campus of Simon Fraser University is located on Burnaby Mountain, 20 km from downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

Answer: Rhode Island School of Design

The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the other choices listed above are among the top fine arts schools in the U.S. Located in Providence, the RISD campus is contiguous with the campus of Brown University. The musical band Talking Heads was formed while its members were attending the school.

Answer: University of East Anglia

The controversy began in November 2009 when more than 1,000 emails and 3,000 other documents were hacked from the server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia. Climate skeptics alleged that the emails revealed data manipulation and a conspiracy to silence dissenters. CRU researchers maintained that the emails had been taken out of context. Even though subsequent investigations have cleared the CRU researchers, critics remain unconvinced.

Answer: Stanford University

Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy of Stanford were later joined by Bill Joy of Berkeley, who is also counted as a founder. The Sun name is an acronym of the Stanford University Network. Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010.

Answer: Hartwick College

Hartwick is private, coeducational liberal arts and sciences college, located in Oneonta, NY, in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Hartwick counts Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, among its notable alumni. Hillman, a historically black college in Virginia, was the fictional setting for the television series "A Different World". The fictional Hudson University has been referenced by a number of TV shows, especially "Law & Order" and its spinoffs. Indiana Jones was a professor of archaeology at the fictional Barnett College located in Fairfield, NY.

Answer: Duke University

The Duke lacrosse case attracted national media attention in 2006. The aftermath of the case included the disbarment of the lead district attorney and the filing of lawsuits by the falsely accused players. Dupont University is the fictional setting of Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons", in which the title character is sexually assaulted by a member of the Dupont lacrosse team.

Answer: The New School

Located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the New School has been known as the
New School for Social Research for most of its history. According to its website, the New School sponsored 183 refugee scholars between 1933 and 1945, more than any other American institution. The University of Winnemac is the creation of Sinclair Lewis for his novel "Arrowsmith".