Colleges & Universities Flashcards
(350 cards)
$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Bill Clinton was elected freshman & sophomore class president at this D.C. school but lost his bid for student body pres.
Georgetown
$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university was founded in Ithaca, New York in 1865; today, other campuses are in NYC & Qatar
Cornell
$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Geeks can hoop! (Eventually!) In 2007 the men at this Pasadena university snapped an 11-year, 207-game losing streak
Cal Tech
$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Ernest Rutherford was working at this Montreal university when he explained how radioactivity works
McGill
$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1900 the founder of this Houston university was suffocated by his valet & a lawyer out to steal his fortune
Rice
$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State University in Detroit is devoted to this movement
labor
$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Learn fiddle & gee-tar at the Blair school of music of this university–it is in Nashville, after all
Vanderbilt
$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this Texas city is not actually located within the city itself but in the neighboring city of Irving
Dallas
$3000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New Englamd institution is the only one of the Ivy League schools officially called a college
Dartmouth College
$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in a borough named State College was founded in 1855 as a 4-year college called Farmers’ High School
Penn State
$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s known as W&M for short
William & Mary
$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s alphabetically first of the Seven Sisters colleges
Barnard
$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 2010 Cam Newton became this university’s third Heisman Trophy winner
Auburn
$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university that hosts the Georgia Shakespeare festival is named for Georgia’s colonial founder
Oglethorpe
$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Truman State University is located in this state
Missouri
$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1919 this school was established as the southern branch of the University of California
UCLA
$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College
South Dakota
$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power
Marshall
$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university
the University of Arizona
$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Thomas Jefferson planned the curriculum & hired the first faculty for this university
University of Virginia
$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1789, this Washington, D.C. school was the USA’s first Catholic college
Georgetown
$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A white oak on the campus of this New Brunswick, New Jersey school inspired Joyce Kilmer to write “Trees”
Rutgers
$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Both Bennett Cerf & Herman Wouk were student editors of Jester, a humor magazine of this New York City university
Columbia