Which one of these University legends actually happened?
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>> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 1 Which of the following is not a real Cambridge University club? a) Tiddlywinks Club b) Gog Magog (Molly dancing) c) Little Mermaid Fanclub d) CUDDLES >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 2 Students graduating from Cambridge get Cantab after their degree name, whilst those from Oxford get Oxon. What do students from York get? a) Jorv b) Yor c) Ebor d) Sylum >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 3 What is the average starting salary for a graduate? a) £27,000 b) £18,000 c) £32,000 d) £23,000 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 4 How many Cambridge colleges have the same name as an Oxford college? a) None b) 6 c) 7 d) 13 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 5 Which of these HE institutions has the least students? a) University of St. Andrews b) Royal College of Nursing c) The Open University d) Oxford Brookes University >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 6 Picture round Which of the famous people below did not go to Cambridge University? a) Tony Blair, b) Ian McKellan, c) Vanessa Feltz, d) Rachel Weisz >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 7 How many universities are there in the UK? a) 92 b) 115 c) 137 d) 423 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 8 Roughly how many students are registered at Indira Gandhi Open University, India? a) 1,800,000 b) 310,000 c) 36,000 d) 900 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 9 Which one of these University legends actually happened? a) A student mistook an ‘unsolvable’ Maths problem for homework, and solved it! b) In 1399, Cambridge townspeople attacked Corpus Christi college in an attempt to burn its tax records, but were amazed to find that its students had prepared themselves for attack by stockpiling food and arming themselves. After a six-month siege, the townspeople eventually gave up and left. c) A student discovered that by the laws of Cambridge University she could demand a mug of beer during an exam. She was given it, but the university failed her because another law said that students had to wear a full suit of armour into exams or be disqualified. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 10 What does the Latin word universitas mean? a) Herd of sheep b) Company c) Library d) Intense headache >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 11 How many ‘young people’ (under 21) go to University? a) 56% b) 24% c) 42% d) 31% >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 12 Which of these subjects could students coming to Cambridge in 1400 not study? a) Grammar b) Logic c) Etiquette d) Rhetoric >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 13 Picture Round Where are these universities located? Choose from a) Kyoto (Japan), b) Mumbai (India), c) Beijing (China), and d) Istanbul (Turkey) >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 14 Picture round Which of the famous people below did not go to Cambridge University? a) David Baddiel, b) Kate Beckinsale, c) Sacha Baron Cohen, d) Jeremy Paxman >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 15 Which one of these University legends actually happened? a) A map discovered in Hitler’s bunker after World War II showed details of a planned Nazi strike against Britain. On it, Hitler had written: ‘bomb Cambridge, spare Oxford – it is prettier’ b) A group of engineering students once disassembled an Austin van, took it to the top of Senate House piece by piece, and reassembled it on top. The van eventually had to be cut into six pieces before it was taken down. c) Lord Byron once kept a polar bear cub in his bedroom, which escaped one day and had to be killed by the porters with a pole-axe. There is still a statute at Sidney Sussex college stating that ‘whosoever does enter College propertye with a Bear of Any Description shall be asked the Leave with Haste’ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 16 The University of Cambridge was closed from 1665 to 1667. Why? a) The townspeople of Cambridge declared war on the University b) The black death spread to East Anglia c) There was a plague of locusts d) A small earthquake devastated the town >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 17 How many universities are there in Scotland? a) 11 b) 13 c) 14 d) 19 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 18 Which one of these University legends actually happened? a) Sir Isaac Newton constructed the Mathematical Bridge so that it would hold itself together without using any nuts or bolts. When a group of curious students dismantled it later, they couldn’t figure out how to put it back together again – so now it does have screws and pins to hold it together. b) A poor student wrote to a newspaper asking them to advertise a request for all its readers to send him one penny each. As a result he earned over $28,000 – more than enough to fund his degree. c) In 1979, students noticed that the brand-new University of Wyoming Law Library was sinking slowly into the ground. The building sank 8½ feet into its foundations before people realised that the architect had not taken into account how much heavier the building would be when full of books, and its foundations had cracked. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 1 Which of the following is not a real Cambridge University club? c) The Little Mermaid Fan Club >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 2 Students graduating from Cambridge get Cantab after their degree name, whilst those from Oxford get Oxon. What do students from York get? c) Ebor >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 3 What is the average starting salary for a graduate? d) £23,000 Although it varies depending on which University you went to, what subject you studied and what career you’ve chosen. Graduate starting salaries in Investment Banking are £35,000! >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 4 How many colleges Cambridge colleges have the same name as an Oxford college? b) Six colleges in Oxford have exactly the same name as colleges in Cambridge – Corpus Christi, Jesus, Pembroke, St. John’s, Trinity, and Wolfson. Three have names pronounced identically but written differently – Queen’s, St. Catharine’s and Magdalen. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 5 Which of these HE institutions has the least students? b) The Royal College of Nursing has fewer than 900 students. The Open University has more than 150,000 registered students >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 6 Which of those famous people did not go to Cambridge University? a) On 2nd May 1997, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair became the 25th Prime Minister of the UK who had attended Oxford University. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 7 How many universities are there in the UK? b) 115 But if you included Colleges where you can do Universitylevel courses, there are a lot more… >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 8 Roughly how many students are registered at Indira Gandhi Open University, India? a) 1,800,000 – making it possibly the biggest university in the world. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 9 Which one of these University legends actually happened? a) In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, arrived late for a statistics class and found two problems written on the board. Not knowing they were examples of "unsolvable" statistics problems, he mistook them for part of a homework assignment, jotted them down, and solved them. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 10 What does the Latin word universitas mean? b) Company >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 11 How many ‘young people’ (under 21) go to University? c) 42% >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 12 Which of these subjects could students coming to Cambridge in 1400 not study? c) Etiquette >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 13 Picture Round Where are these universities located? d) University of Istanbul, b) University c) University a) Kyoto of Mumbai, of Peking, University, India Turkey >> 0 >> 1 >> China 2 >> Japan 3 >> 4 >> Question 14 Which of those famous people did not go to Cambridge University? b) Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale studied French and Russian Literature at Oxford University, but did not finish her degree. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 15 Which one of these University legends actually happened? b) On Sunday, the 8th of June 1958, after planning for nearly a year, a group of thirteen students successfully lifted an Austin seven van 85 feet onto the roof of Senate House. The vehicle was eventually brought down piece-by-piece by the police. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 16 The University of Cambridge was closed from 1665 to 1667. Why? b) The bubonic plague – also known as the Black Death – arrived in East Anglia. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 17 How many universities are there in Scotland? c) 14 The oldest, the University of St. Andrew’s, was founded in 1411 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Question 18 Which one of these University legends actually happened? b) In 1987, Mike Hayes, a student of the University of Illinois, wrote to a columnist in the Chicago Tribune asking him to advertise his request for one penny each from all of the Tribune’s readers. He ended up receiving the equivalent of 2.3 million pennies, including a $25 cheque from Miss America 1983. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Tie-breaker How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Cambridge alumni? 80 The top ten Nobel Prize winning countries are: USA (160) UK (110) Germany (94) France (54) Sweden (27) >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>
