Colleges & Universities Trivia

1. At what university did Randy Pausch deliver his "Last Lecture" on September 18, 2007?

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 11)

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.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 10)

Answer: University of Pennsylvania

The Penn Relays, also known as the Penn Relays Carnival, is hosted annually by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. More athletes compete at the Penn Relays than in the Olympic Games.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 9)

Answer: College of William and Mary

The inside of the Wren Building has been destroyed by fire three times (1705, 1859, and 1862), the last time by Federal troops during the Civil War. The question, "Was Christopher Wren the architect?", is discussed on the official website of Colonial Williamsburg. The answer to the question has remained unresolved for over 300 years.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 8)

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.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 7)

Answer: California Institute of Technology

Funded by NASA and operated by Caltech, the JPL is the lead US center for robotic exploration of our solar system. Highly ranked Caltech has less than 1,000 undergraduate students.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 6)

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.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 5)

Answer: Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo

The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo was established in 1538. The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, established in 1551, was the second oldest; however, it was closed in 1865. Harvard, the oldest in the U.S., was established in 1636. The origins of Laval, the oldest center of education in Canada, are the Séminaire de Québec founded in 1663.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 4)

Answer: The London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE describes itself as "the world's leading social science institution for teaching and research". The Fabian Society is a British intellectual socialist movement that favors a gradual, rather than revolutionary, approach to achieve its goals.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 3)

Answer: University of Oxford

The fictional Oxford college, Jordan College, is the home of the trilogy's heroine Lyra Belacqua. Its location and layout in the parallel universe corresponds to Exeter College, Pullman's alma mater.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 2)

Answer: Australian National University

Located in Canberra, Australian National University is the smallest of the Group of Eight. Monash is the largest university in Australia; Sydney is the oldest. Charles Darwin, located in the Northern Territory, is not a Group of Eight member.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 1)

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.

From Quiz A Guided Tour of the University of Durham

Answer: 1832

The university continued as an amalgamation of the university of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne until 1963 when both separated.

From Quiz Universities around the World

Answer: Nalanda University, India

The Nalanda University was founded around 5th century BC and was an ancient seat of higher learning attracting Buddhist scholars from around the world. The famous scholar Huen Tsang stayed and studied here in the 7th century AD. The university had close to 2,000 teachers and a student strength of more than 10,000 at its peak. The Nanjing University was founded around 250 AD while the University of Bologna was founded in 1088. Oxford was founded about the year 1096 AD.

From Quiz Indian Institutes of Technology

Answer: 5

Five new IITs were set up in 2016, at Dhanbad, Bilai, Dharwad, Jammu and Goa. The one at Dhanbad was originally set up as a College of Mining in 1926. The other four were newly established in 2016.

From Quiz World Universities

Answer: New Jersey

Princeton University was chartered in 1746, and known as the College of New Jersey until 1896, it was British North America's fourth college.

From Quiz Universities and Colleges Around the World

Answer: 1088 in Bologna

Founded most probably in 1088, Bologna University is the oldest European university in continuous operation. It is still one of the most prestigious universities in Italy, with a first class list of faculties and departments and an impressive list of alumni and staff. Bettisia Gozzadini graduated as a jurist and taught at the university from about 1239. She is probably the first woman to teach at a university. (Question by malama)

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 11)

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.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 10)

Answer: McGill University

Called the "Father of Modern Medicine", Osler's many contributions to medicine included the establishment of the medical residency. As a professor, his influence was felt as a faculty member of McGill, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 9)

Answer: University of Michigan

The Wolverines have been champions in 1948, 1951-53, 1955-56, 1964, 1996, and 1998. The semi-finals and finals of the NCAA Men's Division I (and Division III) Ice Hockey Championship tournament are branded as the "Frozen Four".

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 8)

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".

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 7)

Answer: University of Paris

In 1229 the university closed in response to a student riot. In 1940 it was closed due to the German invasion. Student unrest was again the cause of the closure in May 1968.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 6)

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.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 5)

Answer: Marshall University

The 2006 film "We Are Marshall" is a dramatization of the tragedy and the rebuilding of the football program. The school was named after John Marshall, the longest serving Chief Justice in U.S. Supreme Court history.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 4)

Answer: University of Pennsylvania

Although ENIAC was 100 feet long, 10 feet high, and weighed 30 tons, a chip of silicon measuring 0.02 inches square in 2007 held the same capacity as all of ENIAC. ENIAC stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 3)

Answer: University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton. Its illustrious alumni include Peter Lynch, Michael Milken, and Donald Trump.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 2)

Answer: Georgetown University

What is a Hoya? You don't really want to know, but if you insist, the following is the answer according to the Official Web Site of Georgetown University Athletics: "Many years ago, when all Georgetown students were required to study Greek and Latin, the University's teams were nicknamed 'The Stonewalls'. It is suggested that a student, using Greek and Latin terms, started the cheer 'Hoya Saxa!', which translates into 'What Rocks!' The name proved popular and the term 'Hoyas' was eventually adopted for all Georgetown teams." Thus it has nothing to with the genus of tropical plants or the famous boxer.

From Quiz Colleges & Universities (Part 1)

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.

From Quiz A Guided Tour of the University of Durham

Answer: William van Mildert

Van Mildert college, founded in 1965, recalled the nomenclature of the founder and was coupled with the Van Mildert Professorship of Divinity to preserve William van Mildert's heritage.

From Quiz Universities around the World

Answer: Albania

The other four universities in Albania are the Polytechnic University of Tirana, University of Elbasan "Aleksander Xhuvani" and the University of Tirana.

From Quiz World Universities

Answer: Fontainebleau

INSEAD is one of the world's premier business schools, offering a wide range of business courses. The school also has an Asian campus, located in Singapore.

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