Colleges & Universities (Part 6) Quiz

Answer: Texas Western College

Head coach Don Haskins led Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) with the first all-black starting lineup in NCAA history to victory. The film starred Josh Lucas as Haskins with Jon Voight as the legendary coach Adolph Rupp of the University of Kentucky.

Answer: Cornell University

The main campus of Cornell University is located in the city of Ithaca on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in central New York. Cayuga Lake is the longest of New York's glacial Finger Lakes and the second to Seneca Lake in surface area.

Answer: University of Al-Karaouine

Al-Azhar in Cairo, founded in 975, is the second oldest. The great Jewish philosopher and theologian Maimonides (1135-1204) studied at Al-Karaouine under Abdul Arab Ibn Muwashah, but those were more civilized times.

Answer: Harvard University

In 1951 the Hasty Pudding Theatricals gave its first award to Gertrude Lawrence. The 2009 winners were James Franco and Renée Zellweger.

Answer: Oxford

Arguably, one of the better Laurel and Hardy films, "Chump at Oxford" was their penultimate film made at the Hal Roach studios. Stan and Ollie decide to get an education because in Stan's words "we're not illiterative enough". When a bank robber slips on a banana peel that Stan had discarded, the grateful bank manager buys them an Oxford education.

Answer: Northwestern University

When Northwestern set the new record in 1981 by losing at home in style to Michigan State 61-14, students rushed on the field and celebrated. After defeating Wyoming 27-22 on Sept. 15, 1979, the Wildcats did not win again until they defeated Northern Illinois 31-6 on Sept. 25, 1982.

Answer: University of Texas at Austin

Whitman had already killed his wife and mother in their homes shortly before the tower massacre. Until surpassed by the Virginia Tech massacre, this had been the deadliest campus mass shooting.

Answer: Princeton University

The school is known as "Woody Woo" on campus. Woodrow Wilson was a member of
Princeton's Class of 1879 and the university's 13th president.

Answer: Temple University

Cosby also earned an Ed.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. At Temple, he ran track and played fullback on the football team. He has been an active alumni supporter of his alma mater. Hillman College was the fictional historically black college that was the setting of "A Different World", a spin-off series of "The Cosby Show".

Answer: University of Iowa

In 1929 Lindquist developed a set of tests that evolved into the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, an exam for elementary and middle school students, as well as the Iowa Tests of Educational Development for high school students. The Lindquist Center, the building on the Iowa City campus in which the College of Education is located, was named in his honor.