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Colleges & Universities (Part 8)

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Colleges  Universities  Part 8 game 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. "

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1. What institution's drop-outs have included Richard Hatch ("Survivor"), Edgar Allan Poe, James Whistler, and Timothy Leary?
    United States Military Academy at West Point
    Johns Hopkins University
    Amherst College
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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


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?
    Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
    Arizona State University
    University of Florida
    University of California, Los Angeles


4. What is the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated almost entirely by undergraduates?
    California Institute of Technology
    Princeton University
    Georgia Tech University
    Reed College


5. What school was founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, a Baptist institution of higher learning?
    Bryant University
    Brown University
    Providence College
    Roger Williams University


6. Where did Marc Lépine shoot twenty-eight people, killing fourteen and injuring the other fourteen before killing himself on December 6, 1989?
    Concordia University
    Université Laval
    McGill University
    École Polytechnique de Montréal


7. What university has the largest endowment?
    Princeton University
    Yale University
    Stanford University
    Harvard University


8. What university gives a final honours examination called a "tripos"?
    University of Cambridge
    University of Oxford
    Harvard University
    Yale University


9. From what university did the group of friends recently graduate in the 1985 Brat Pack film "St. Elmo's Fire"?
    Boston University
    New York University
    Columbia University
    Georgetown 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?
    University of Southern California
    Florida State University
    Yale University
    University of Cincinnati


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Compiled Jun 28 12