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$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.

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Georgetown

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university was founded in Ithaca, New York in 1865; today, other campuses are in NYC & Qatar

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Cornell

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Geeks can hoop! (Eventually!) In 2007 the men at this Pasadena university snapped an 11-year, 207-game losing streak

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Cal Tech

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Ernest Rutherford was working at this Montreal university when he explained how radioactivity works

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McGill

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1900 the founder of this Houston university was suffocated by his valet & a lawyer out to steal his fortune

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Rice

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State University in Detroit is devoted to this movement

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labor

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Learn fiddle & gee-tar at the Blair school of music of this university–it is in Nashville, after all

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Vanderbilt

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$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

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Dallas

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$3000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New Englamd institution is the only one of the Ivy League schools officially called a college

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Dartmouth College

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$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

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Penn State

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s known as W&M for short

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William & Mary

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s alphabetically first of the Seven Sisters colleges

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Barnard

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 2010 Cam Newton became this university’s third Heisman Trophy winner

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Auburn

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university that hosts the Georgia Shakespeare festival is named for Georgia’s colonial founder

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Oglethorpe

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Truman State University is located in this state

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Missouri

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1919 this school was established as the southern branch of the University of California

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UCLA

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College

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South Dakota

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America

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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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$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

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Marshall

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university

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the University of Arizona

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Thomas Jefferson planned the curriculum & hired the first faculty for this university

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University of Virginia

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1789, this Washington, D.C. school was the USA’s first Catholic college

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Georgetown

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A white oak on the campus of this New Brunswick, New Jersey school inspired Joyce Kilmer to write “Trees”

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Rutgers

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Both Bennett Cerf & Herman Wouk were student editors of Jester, a humor magazine of this New York City university

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Columbia

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Its nickname was a slave term for the most powerful woman on a plantation

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University of Mississippi

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A Maverick preacher & a swashbuckling Civil War General founded Drake University in this capital of Iowa

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Des Moines

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| www.goducks.com is the official website for this West Coast school’s athletics

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(University of) Oregon

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This University of California campus graduates more than 2,000 Banana Slugs annually

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Santa Cruz

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In the ’40s Enrico Fermi built a nuclear pile on a squash court at the University of this city

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Chicago

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Colby College in Waterville in this state was originally a literary & theological institution

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Maine

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s Hargrett Library has a special collection devoted to author Margaret Mitchell

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the University of Georgia

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Although founded in 1867, this Washington, D.C. school didn’t have its first black president until 1926

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Howard

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The 20-inch Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar is owned and operated by this school

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Caltech

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New London, Connecticut academy’s motto is “The sea yields to knowledge”

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the Coast Guard Academy

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1842 Willamette University in this state capital became the first college on the West Coast

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Salem (Oregon)

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$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This 2-word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935

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Ivy League

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Joseph Pulitzer endowed a school of journalism at this NYC school

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Columbia

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Albert Einstein gave a series of lectures on the theory of relativity at this N.J. school’s McCosh Hall in 1921

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Princeton

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1701 Increase Mather saw a decrease in his workload: he was removed as president of this college

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Harvard

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the first computer mouse at SRI International.</a>) The first computer mouse was developed & <a>demonstrated</a> here at SRI back when SRI was affiliated with this university as its research institute

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Stanford

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Richard Nixon graduated from this North Carolina university’s law school in 1937

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Duke

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s nicknamed “Old Eli”

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Yale

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The oldest college in the Southern U.S. is named for this royal pair who founded it in 1693

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William & Mary

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$3000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Louisiana univ. with a famed marching band began as the Colored Industrial & Agricultural School in 1901

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Grambling

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Baltimore university’s hospital formally opened in 1889

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Johns Hopkins

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Martha Stewart & Anna Quindlen are graduates of this women’s college that’s affiliated with Columbia

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Barnard

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Poughkeepsie school was the first of the seven sisters to be coeducational

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Vassar

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Senator Paul Wellstone once taught at Carleton College in Northfield in this state

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Minnesota

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Despite its name, it’s located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts & it’s actually a university

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Boston College

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “The Dome” is the yearbook of this university near South Bend, Indiana

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Notre Dame

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| You’ll find the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Museum at this university in Baltimore

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Johns Hopkins

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The John F. Kennedy School of Government, on John F. Kennedy Street, is a graduate school of this university

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Harvard

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Former President Cleveland was one of the trustees of this New Jersey university that elected Woodrow Wilson its head

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Princeton

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Creighton University, founded in 1878, is a Jesuit school in this Midwest city

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Omaha

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The website for Bucknell, a college in this state, includes a section on life in the Susquehanna Valley

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Pennsylvania

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Part of the Sun Belt Athletic Conference, Western Kentucky University is in this “colorful” 2-word city

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Bowling Green

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Trustees of the College of California bought 160 acres of land north of Oakland & named the site this in 1866

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Berkeley

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Tulsa college was founded by & named for an evangelist, now the school’s chancellor

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Oral Roberts

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$1500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| An anthem says, “With each pealing bell… hail, all hail” this New York university (it rhymes)

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Cornell

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Lord Jeffs is the nickname of the athletic teams of this Massachusetts college

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Amherst

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The 735-acre campus of this Baptist school is on the banks of the Brazos River in Waco, Texas

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Baylor

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| One of the most popular organizations at this state univ. in Louisiana is the Tiger Marching Band, founded 1926

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Grambling

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This college was intended to be the first college within the University of Dublin, but it’s still the only one

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Trinity College

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Charles, not Sonny, was the benefactor of this Medford, Massachusetts university

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Tufts

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Beloit College in this state was founded in 1846, while that state was still a territory

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Wisconsin

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Pasadena school, often called Caltech, operates several observatories, including Palomar near San Diego

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the California Institute of Technology

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1958 Vermont’s Burlington Business College was renamed for this large nearby lake

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Champlain

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Nepal’s first university, Tribhuvan University, has its main campus near this capital city

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Kathmandu

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Its St. Hilda’s College is women’s only; all others, including All Souls & Magdalen, are coeducational

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Oxford

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The library at this Penn. college founded by the Quakers in 1864 has a collection dedicated to the peace movement

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Swarthmore College

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$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The main green of this university includes statues of Ira Allen, its founder, & Lafayette, who visited in 1825

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the University of Vermont

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It has the largest enrollment of any university in Utah

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Brigham Young

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1865 this school in Poughkeepsie became the first women’s college in the U.S. to have facilities equal to the men’s schools

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Vassar

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company

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Pepperdine

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Tulsa, Oklahoma school’s athletic teams are called the Golden Eagles, not the Evangelists

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Oral Roberts University

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This West Lafayette, Indiana school’s Hall of Music has seating for more than 6,000

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Purdue

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In the 2005 Orange Bowl, this university’s Trojans trampled the Sooners, 55-19

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Southern California

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Of the Ivy League colleges, this one is alphabetically first

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Brown

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Seton Hill University is in Greensburg, Penn.; Seton Hall University is in South Orange in this state

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New Jersey

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Wheaton College in Illinois recently ranked No. 1 in college food, followed by this school in Brunswick, Maine

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Bowdoin College

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1982 Jimmy Carter established the Carter Center in partnership with this university

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Emory

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Students can swim, play sports & work out at this university’s Rockne Memorial Recreational Facility

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Notre Dame

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1867 to educate newly freed slaves & their descendants

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Howard University

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Named for the Indian tribe, this university was chartered in Oxford, Ohio, not in Florida, in 1809

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Miami (University of Ohio)

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| What was once the Church College of Hawaii now operates as a branch of this mainland university

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Brigham Young (University)

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$900 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| On May 4, classes at this Midwestern school recess from noon until 2:00 p.m. as part of an official day of remembrance

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Kent State

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s Bruins play their home football games at the Rose Bowl

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UCLA

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| (<a>Hi, I’m Joshua Molina of <i>The West Wing</i>.</a>) My fellow graduates of this Ivy League school include Jodie Foster & Jennifer Beals

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Yale

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| For the last 16 years, its school of Engineering grad program has been ranked number 1 by U.S. News & World Report

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M.I.T.

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Women weren’t admitted to this school, VMI for short, until 1997

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Virginia Military Institute

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Reportedly acting upon God’s command, he founded a university in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963

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Oral Roberts

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Oberlin, home to an underground railroad stop & one of the first U.S. colleges with black students, is in this state

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Ohio

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The bestseller “The Rule of Four” was co-written by a graduate of this New Jersey school, also the book’s setting

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Princeton

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy is on the campus of this Houston University

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Rice

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This private Christian university overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California

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Pepperdine

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1836 by the Methodist church, this Atlanta university is located along the Clifton Corridor

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Emory

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Madonna could have gone to Madonna Univ. in Livonia but instead attended this bigger school in Ann Arbor

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University of Michigan

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is named in honor of Colonel Sanders & John Y. Brown Sr.

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University of Kentucky

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 62% of the undergrads at Charter Oak State College are from this state

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Connecticut

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| John Carroll, America’s first Roman Catholic bishop, founded this Washington, D.C. university

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Georgetown

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| President Taft’s daughter Helen was a longtime history professor & dean of this women’s college in Pennsylvania

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Bryn Mawr

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1253 Robert de Sorbon founded a school of theology in this city

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Paris

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s Christ Church College was opened by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525

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Oxford

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| He was pres. of Case Western Eclectic Institute in Hiram, Ohio 1857-61; his term as U.S. pres. lasted 6 months in 1881

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James A. Garfield

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in Indiana is administered by the Congregation of Holy Cross

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Notre Dame

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The campus of this Ivy League school lies at the head of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay

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Brown University

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Teams at a Tennessee university named for this man are nicknamed the Railsplitters

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Abraham Lincoln

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Emerson’s “American Scholar” was an oration to the Phi Beta Kappa society of this school, his alma mater

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Harvard

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In the book “The Sun Also Rises”, Robert Cohn is a novelist who had attended this New Jersey university

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Princeton

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Thomas Jefferson Medals for architecture & for law are given annually at this university

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University of Virginia

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace is part of this Palo Alto university

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Stanford

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this state has branches in Birmingham, Huntsville & Tuscaloosa

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Alabama

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Due to a fire in 1764, few books exist from its original library established around 1638

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Harvard

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Oral Roberts University is in Oklahoma; the university named for this man is in Hawaii & Utah

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Brigham Young

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| We can’t argue the fact – the Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton, one of these clubs, dates back to 1765

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debate club

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Among occupational school nicknames are the Brandeis Judges & the Whittier these

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Poets

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1795 in Chapel Hill the university of this state became the first U.S. state university to open its doors

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North Carolina

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| (Bill Clinton gives the clue) Before I became a Rhodes Scholar, I earned my bachelor’s degree in international affairs from this univ. in our nation’s capital

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Georgetown

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$1200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Jesuit university in downtown Milwaukee “Encourages students…to find God in all things”

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Marquette

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s original building, erected in Elko in 1874, became a hospital for indigents before it was leveled in 1920

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University of Nevada

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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A Virginia university bears the name of this man who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights

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George Mason

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This private Utah university is controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Brigham Young University

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1695 the Christopher Wren Building was built on this Virginia school’s campus; classes are still held in it

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William and Mary

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| On May 17, 1987 pranksters from this Pasadena school changed the Hollywood sign to the name of the school

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Caltech

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This state university of New Jersey was founded by the Dutch Reformed Church as Queen’s College in 1766

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Rutgers

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Statler Inn at this Ithaca, N.Y. school was built as a “teaching hotel” for its school of hotel administration

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Cornell

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s the university where you’ll find the John F. Kennedy School of Government

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Harvard

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Jefferson Davis graduated from the U.S. Military Academy here

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West Point

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| James Madison & Woodrow Wilson both graduated from this New Jersey university

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Princeton

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Sports teams of this university are known as the Crimson Tide

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Alabama

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This private, coeducational Washington, D.C. school is the oldest Catholic university in America

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Georgetown

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The student newspaper of this D.C. university is the GW Hatchet

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George Washington

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Green Mountain College is located in Poultney in this state

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Vermont

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| An old oaken bucket goes to the winner of an annual football game between Purdue & this cross-state rival

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Indiana

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Angie Anderson & Carrie MacDonald are the first women to wear the Hawkeye mascot costume of this university

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Iowa

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Scripps & Harvey Mudd are part of this consortium of California colleges

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The Claremont Colleges

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$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It was founded in 1851 to serve the territory that included Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois & part of Minnesota

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Northwestern

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1971 the Lyndon Johnson Library at this school became the first presidential library on a college campus

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University of Texas

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The only university in this state is in the city named for Jacques La Ramee

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Wyoming

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this city is split into 13 branches; 3 were formed from the Sorbonne

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Paris

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s “Gator Growl”, which takes place the night before Homecoming, is said to be the largest pep rally

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University of Florida

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Father Theodore Hesburgh served as president of this university a record 35 years, retiring in 1987

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Notre Dame

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| George Washington was chancellor of this college from 1788 until his death

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William and Mary

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The campus for this university’s law center is located at the foot of Capitol Hill

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Georgetown

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Endowed by Joseph Pulitzer, its journalism school opened in 1912

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Columbia

146
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| You’ll find the Lacrosse Hall of Fame Museum at this university in Baltimore

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Johns Hopkins

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Longfellow read his poem “Morituri Salutamus” at the 50th reunion of this Maine school’s Class of 1825

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Bowdoin College

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Dome is the yearbook of this university near South Bend, Indiana

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Notre Dame

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Poughkeepsie, New York school was the first of the Seven Sisters to be coeducational

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Vassar

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Both Benjamin Harrison & his running mate Whitelaw Reid graduated from Miami of this Midwestern state

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Ohio

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “Windy” nickname of Iowa State’s athletic teams

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Cyclones

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1842, Willamette University in this state capital is the oldest college on the West Coast

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Salem (Oregon)

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Dating from 1752, Connecticut Hall is this university’s oldest building

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Yale

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It has campuses in Provo, Utah & on Oahu

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Brigham Young University

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$1500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Despite its name, it’s located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts & it’s actually a university

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Boston College

156
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Oberlin College in this state was the 1st to go co-educational

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Ohio

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded as a medical college in 1834, it was later renamed for a New Orleans merchant

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Tulane

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s Twin Cities campus has one of the USA’s largest enrollments with roughly 40,000 students

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University of Minnesota

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1538, the University of Santo Domingo in this country is the oldest in the Western Hemisphere

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Dominican Republic

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College is a liberal arts school affiliated with this New Orleans school

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Tulane

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Gazette of this school in Hanover, N.H. began as a commercial paper in 1799 & moved on campus in 1839

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Dartmouth

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s team nickname, the Hoyas, comes from “Hoya saxa”, a phrase meaning “What Rocks!”

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Georgetown

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Wayne State College is in Wayne, Nebraska; Wayne State University is in this largest Michigan city

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Detroit

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| David Byrne of the Talking Heads attended this Providence art school

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Rhode Island School of Design

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “Pax et Lux” (“Peace and Light”) is the motto of this university located in Medford, Massachusetts

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Tufts

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 3 Baptist missionaries helped found this Waco school, Texas’ oldest in continuing operation

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Baylor University

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Ivy League college in upstate New York was founded by a man who built telegraph systems

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Cornell

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In April 1999 Harvard announced plans to formally absorb this women’s college

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Radcliffe

169
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Hullabaloo is the school newspaper for this New Orleans university

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Tulane

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in Ithaca, New York is the youngest school in the Ivy League

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Cornell

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| [Hi, I’m Camryn Manheim] This D.C. university is named for the educator who helped develop American Sign Language

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Gallaudet

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This bird was the mascot at the University of Delaware before it was the state bird

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Blue hen

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 1 of 2 current U.S. colleges founded in the 1600s

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Harvard & William & Mary

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This University of Texas fight song is based on “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”

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“The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You”

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Students in Moscow at the university of this state may cross-register for courses at Washington State

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Idaho

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s the nickname of the University of Oregon’s athletic teams

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Ducks

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The only college in the Yukon Territory is Yukon College in this capital

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Whitehorse

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1976 this service school in Annapolis admitted its first women

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U.S. Naval Academy

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Not surprisingly, more undergrads at the University of Puget Sound are from this state than any other

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Washington

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$1600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1756 this school moved from Newark, New Jersey to its present home

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Princeton

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Several of its football songs were written by alumnus Cole Porter

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Yale

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is named for Benjamin Franklin & this great chief justice

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John Marshall

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Men’s teams at Washington & Jefferson College are the Presidents; the women once had this nickname

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the First Ladies

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “I have found it!” The westernmost college in the lower 48 states is the College of the Redwoods in this California city

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Eureka

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Rochester, N.Y. businessman’s gift allowed MIT to be built

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(George) Eastman

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Originally the colors of Syracuse were pea green & pink, but in 1890 this one color was chosen

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orange

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Located in Pyongyang, North Korea’s oldest university is named for this late Communist leader

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Kim Il-sung

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s athletic teams are called the Hoosiers

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Indiana

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Badger alumni know Michael Jackson acquired rights to this school’s fight song from Paul McCartney

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Wisconsin

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s East Lansing campus has the USA’s largest college food service operation

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Michigan State

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| After the Civil War, Georgetown University chose these school colors to signify the union of the North & South

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blue & gray

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In accordance with the founder’s will, this Houston university was tuition-free from 1912 to 1965

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Rice

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Yonsei University in Seoul is this country’s oldest university

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South Korea

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This state’s Transylvania University in Lexington was once called the “Harvard of the West”

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Kentucky

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Washington, D.C. Catholic school maintains the Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Research Center

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Georgetown

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New York City university’s school of medicine was founded in 1767

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Columbia

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Lown School of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies is part of this school named for a Supreme Court justice

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Brandeis

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Encarta says this Massachusetts school has the largest private endowment of any university in the world

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Harvard

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Baltimore university is noted for its medical school & the Peabody Conservatory of Music

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Johns Hopkins

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university near Palo Alto, California was founded by a railroad magnate & named for his son

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Stanford

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Canadian region’s Aurora College, formerly Arctic College, has its main campus in Yellowknife

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Northwest Territories

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This country had no university until 1986, when Sultan Qaboos University opened in the Muscat area

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Oman

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| You’ll find the John F. Kennedy School of Government at this Ivy League university, JFK’s alma mater

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Harvard

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| At the 1997 Rose Bowl, Ohio State handed this school’s Sun Devils their only loss of the season

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Arizona State

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1861 the faculty & most of the students of this 2nd-oldest U.S. college joined the Confederate army

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William & Mary

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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Rice University’s campus is located about 3 miles from the downtown area of this large city

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Houston

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It’s the world’s only 4-year university devoted to deaf & hard of hearing undergraduate students

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Gallaudet

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The school of forestry of this New Haven, Conn. university is the USA’s oldest in continuous operation

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Yale

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school in University Park, Pennsylvania was chartered in 1855 as Farmers’ High School

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Penn State University

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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Canada’s oldest agricultural school, St. Anne de la Pocatiere, became part of this province’s Laval U. in 1962

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Quebec

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Charlotte Amalie is the site of the college of this U.S. possession

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U.S. Virgin Islands

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Houston school’s athletic teams are nicknamed the Owls

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Rice University

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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Not surprisingly, hotel administration is among the more popular fields of study at UNLV in this city

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Las Vegas

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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Prayer Tower is a landmark of this Tulsa university named for an evangelist

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Oral Roberts University

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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1924 Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina was renamed this, after a benefactor

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Duke University

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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Robert Frost Library is at this Massachusetts college co-founded by Emily Dickinson’s grandfather

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Amherst

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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| South Carolina’s Clemson University was named for the son-in-law of this VP who resigned in 1832

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John C. Calhoun

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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1348, Charles University in this Czech capital is the oldest university in central Europe

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Prague

219
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Opened around 1257, it’s now a part of the universities of Paris

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The Sorbonne

220
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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| From 1902 to 1938, Sigmund Freud served as a professor of neuropathology at this university

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University of Vienna

221
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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Radcliffe Camera, a domed building at this British university, is a reading room for the Bodleian Library

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Oxford

222
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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Monrovia is home to the university of this African country

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Liberia

223
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New England school is known as M.I.T. for short

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

224
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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 4 students were killed & several others wounded at this university May 4, 1970

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Kent State

225
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The 1996 Rose Bowl pitted the USC Trojans against this Illinois school’s Wildcats

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Northwestern

226
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| America’s first chair of law was founded at this Virginia college in 1779

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William & Mary

227
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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Referring to its oldest building, Nassau Hall, Old Nassau is a nickname for this Ivy League school

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Princeton

228
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this state has 9 campuses, including those in Davis, Irvine & Berkeley

A

California

229
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1892 this New Haven, Connecticut university first admitted women to its graduate school

A

Yale

230
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| City in which you’d find Marmara University & the University of the Bosporus

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Istanbul

231
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Manitoba’s Catherine Booth Bible College is affiliated with this charitable organization

A

The Salvation Army

232
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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Washington, D.C. school was once the Columbia Inst. for the Instruction of the Deaf & Dumb & the Blind

A

Gallaudet University

233
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$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1284 the Bishop of Ely founded Peterhouse, the first of this British school’s colleges

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Cambridge

234
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This college in Williamsburg, Virginia was founded to train Anglican clergy

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William & Mary

235
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$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This team nickname is credited to William Lander, editor of Duke Univ.’s newspaper during WWI

A

Blue Devils

236
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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1994 Bennington College in this state eliminated all academic departments & abolished its tenure system

A

Vermont

237
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$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this state at Machias is the easternmost 4-year college in the U.S.

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Maine

238
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The DeVry Institute of Technology with campuses in several states began in 1931 in this Illinois city

A

Chicago

239
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Named for William Jennings Bryan, Bryan College was founded in this Tennessee city in 1930

A

Dayton

240
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Cambridge, Mass. college was incorporated as the Soc. for the Collegiate Instruction of Women

A

Radcliffe

241
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Utica College is affiliated with this university in upstate New York

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Syracuse University

242
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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1996, after lifting a ban, this Waco, Texas university held the 1st on-campus dance in its 151-year history

A

Baylor

243
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This country’s University of Havana was authorized by the Pope in 1721 & founded 7 years later

A

Cuba

244
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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Meadows Museum at this church-founded Dallas school houses a large collection of Spanish art

A

Southern Methodist University

245
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located at this Boston-area “institute”

A

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

246
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Hanover, New Hampshire college was established in 1770 when Eleazer Wheelock erected a single log hut

A

Dartmouth

247
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$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This De Land, Florida university is named for a 19th century Philadelphia hat maker

A

Stetson

248
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$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New York univ. is named for the family whose company was the first to sell toothpaste in a tube

A

Colgate University

249
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1911 this university founded a health sciences center in Memphis

A

University of Tennessee

250
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s Santa Cruz campus is the headquarters of the Lick Observatory

A

University of California

251
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Milwaukee university is named for a 17th century French Jesuit missionary & explorer

A

Marquette

252
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This New Jersey school’s Nassau Hall originally housed the entire college

A

Princeton

253
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$2000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Leiden University in this country was founded by William of Orange in 1575

A

The Netherlands/Holland

254
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “Anchors Aweigh” was written for this military academy’s class of 1907

A

U.S. Naval Academy

255
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$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Although it now has 3 campuses, the original is in Tuscaloosa

A

University of Alabama

256
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Washington, D.C. school is the oldest Roman Catholic & Jesuit university in the U.S.

A

Georgetown

257
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The library at this Pasadena school is named for physicist Robert A. Millikan

A

Caltech

258
Q

$2500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at this college in Poughkeepsie has prints by Rembrandt

A

Vassar College

259
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$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Alabama institute was the major training facility for black airmen during World War II

A

Tuskegee Institute

260
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The universities of Mandalay & Rangoon are the chief universities of this country

A

Burma (or Myanmar)

261
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$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The library at this Hanover, New Hampshire school has a special collection on Robert Frost

A

Dartmouth

262
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In the 1850s this Massachusetts educator founded Antioch College & became its first president

A

Horace Mann

263
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1898 DePaul University was founded in this city & named for St. Vincent De Paul

A

Chicago

264
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Boston’s Emerson College has satellite campuses in Kasteel Well, Holland, and in this Belgian capital

A

Brussels

265
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| University of Aberdeen in this country was the first in Great Britain to train students in medicine

A

Scotland

266
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Established c. 1765, this N.J. school’s Whig-Cliosophic Society is the oldest U.S. college debating club

A

Princeton

267
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$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Durham, N.C. school maintains a primate center which houses endangered species of prosimians

A

Duke University

268
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The university of this U.S. territory is the home of the Micronesian Area Research Center

A

Guam

269
Q

$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The George Washington Carver Museum is on this Alabama school’s campus

A

the Tuskegee Institute

270
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Louisiana State University & Louisiana A&M were founded in this capital in 1860

A

Baton Rouge

271
Q

$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Hawaii branch of this university was founded in 1955; the one in Provo, Utah dates back to 1875

A

Brigham Young

272
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Ivy League university has been turning out its “Crimson” newspaper since 1873

A

Harvard

273
Q

$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Ringling School of Art & Design has a 20-acre campus in this Florida city

A

Sarasota

274
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university has a medical branch in Galveston

A

University of Texas

275
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This country’s largest university is the University of Helsinki

A

Finland

276
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school’s Urbana-Champaign campus is home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

A

Illinois

277
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Well known colleges of this university are King’s, Churchill & St. John’s

A

Cambridge

278
Q

$4000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “The Rock” is the alumni magazine of this California college attended by Richard Nixon

A

Whittier

279
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 1995 marked the 200th anniversary of this university’s Hasty Pudding Club

A

Harvard

280
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1873 Illinois’ Evanston College for Ladies became the women’s college of this university

A

Northwestern

281
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This religious group was responsible for founding Wake Forest & Baylor universities

A

Southern Baptists

282
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university at College Station, TX is noted for its engineering & environmental design colleges

A

Texas A & M

283
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Located in Brunswick, it’s Maine’s oldest institution of higher learning

A

Bowdoin College

284
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university has campuses at Tuscaloosa, Huntsville & Birmingham

A

University of Alabama

285
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Churchill College is one of 31 residential colleges at this British university

A

Cambridge

286
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The oldest U.S. university west of the Alleghenies is Transylvania University, at Lexington, in this state

A

Kentucky

287
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The University of Cape Town is on the grounds of Groote Schuur, the estate of this 19th century diamond king

A

Cecil Rhodes

288
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Established in 1881, this Atlanta college is America’s oldest college for black women

A

Spelman College

289
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| There are colleges called this in Illinois & Connecticut as well as in Dublin, Ireland

A

Trinity

290
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The remains of this P.T. Barnum elephant were given to Tufts University

A

Jumbo

291
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Purdue University operates a Fort Wayne campus jointly with this state’s university

A

Indiana

292
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The University of Arizona is a major employer in this second-largest Arizona city

A

Tucson

293
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1993 this state university decided to retain its mascot, the Minuteman

A

Massachusetts

294
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The U.S. Naval War College is maintained in Newport, in this state

A

Rhode Island

295
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1749 this Williamsburg, Virginia college awarded George Washington his surveyors license

A

William and Mary

296
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Schools in Tulsa include the University of Tulsa & this one, named for its evangelist founder

A

Oral Roberts University

297
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Willamette University, in this state capital, is called the oldest institution of higher learning in the West

A

Salem, Oregon

298
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Nashville school has a collection of network evening news telecasts dating back to 1968

A

Vanderbilt

299
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| St. Mary’s Academy, a sister school to this South Bend, IN college, was founded in 1844

A

Notre Dame

300
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university in Tempe has a center for meteorite studies

A

Arizona State

301
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| During World War II, this Cambridge, MA school was the center of the USA’s radar research

A

MIT

302
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| State university campuses in this state include Bemidji, Moorhead, and St. Cloud

A

Minnesota

303
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1930, the William Jennings Bryan University opened in this Tennessee city

A

Dayton

304
Q

$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Henry Moore’s sculpture, “Nuclear Energy”, can be seen on the campus of this university

A

the University of Chicago

305
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| As you might expect, you’ll find Golden Gate University in this city

A

San Francisco

306
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This university’s origins go back to 1794 when it was founded in Knoxville as Blount College

A

University of Tennessee

307
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Paul Tulane gave a substantial endowment to a school in this city, and it was renamed in his honor

A

New Orleans

308
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| It used to be Tempe State Teachers’ College

A

Arizona State University

309
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Appropriately, Australia’s oldest university is located here in Australia’s oldest city

A

Sydney

310
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This U.S. college was chartered in 1693 by the royal pair for whom it is named

A

William and Mary

311
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Girton, Cambridge University’s 1st college for these people, was founded in 1869

A

women

312
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Duke University is in North Carolina & Duquesne University is in this state

A

Pennsylvania

313
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Muhammad V University, Morocco’s largest, is in this capital city

A

Rabat

314
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Cheikh Anta Diop University, formerly the University of Dakar, is this African country’s only university

A

Senegal

315
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1861 a Poughkeepsie, New York brewer founded this women’s college; it’s since become co-educational

A

Vassar

316
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This private university is New Orleans’ oldest institution of higher learning

A

Tulane

317
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in Detroit, the University of Michigan moved to this city in 1837

A

Ann Arbor

318
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Its West Lafayette, Indiana campus library system is also a depository for the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency

A

Purdue

319
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| From 1899-1960, this university was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute

A

Auburn

320
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In 1257, Robert de Sorbonne opened a college of theology in this European city

A

Paris

321
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Harvard’s sister college was named for Lady Anne Molson, whose maiden name was this

A

Radcliffe

322
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Rev. John Witherspoon was president of this New Jersey university when he signed the Declaration of Independence

A

Princeton

323
Q

$1500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| You’ll find both campuses of Northwestern University on this Great Lake

A

Lake Michigan

324
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This town with a religious-sounding name is home to the main campus of the University of North Carolina

A

Chapel Hill

325
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Transylvania U., the oldest university west of the Alleghenies, is in Lexington in this state

A

Kentucky

326
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| A white oak at this New Brunswick, N.J. school supposedly inspired J. Kilmer to write “Trees”

A

Rutgers

327
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This school color of Syracuse gives its teams their nickname

A

Orange (Orangemen)

328
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This Ivy League school has 2 major art museums: the Fogg & the Sackler

A

Harvard

329
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| One of the many institutions of higher learning in this state capital is Oglethorpe University

A

Atlanta

330
Q

$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| JFK outlined his idea for the Peace Corps during a 1960 campaign speech on this school’s Ann Arbor campus

A

University of Michigan

331
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Nixon & Khrushchev sang this school’s song, “The Ramblin’ Wreck”, during Nixon’s ‘59 visit to Moscow

A

Georgia Tech

332
Q

$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Tulane & Loyola, both on St. Charles Ave. in this city, are an average of 4 feet below sea level

A

New Orleans

333
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| McGill University in this Canadian city is known as the “Harvard of the North”

A

Montreal

334
Q

$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| This land grant university operates joint campuses with Indiana U. at Indianapolis & Ft. Wayne

A

Purdue

335
Q

$None ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The only state that’s home to 2 Ivy League schools

A

New York (Columbia, in NYC & Cornell, in Ithaca)

336
Q

$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| George Washington received his surveyor’s license in 1749 from this school named for a king & queen

A

William & Mary

337
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 580 sites were visited before Colorado Springs was selected for the campus of this service academy

A

Air Force Academy

338
Q

$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Since 1868 Wells College seniors have traveled to commencement exercises in these horse-drawn vehicles

A

Stagecoaches

339
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Our first honorary degree was bestowed in 1692 when this college awarded a doctorate to Increase Mather

A

Harvard

340
Q

$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 3 of the schools known as the 7 Sisters, a group considered the feminine version of the Ivy League

A

Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar & Wellesley

341
Q

$100 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee & Jefferson Davis were graduates of this college

A

West Point

342
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Scholoastic achievement in this year of college allows one to join Phi Eta Sigma, an honor society

A

freshman year

343
Q

$300 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| In May 1980 Washington State U. was closed for 4 days due to its proximity to this natural disaster

A

eruption of Mt. Saint Helens

344
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| James K. Polk went to this “tarheel university”

A

University of North Carolina

345
Q

$500 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| 1 of the twin cities which together share the main campus of the University of Illinois

A

(1 of) Champaign or Urbana

346
Q

$200 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| The Bob Hope Comedy Fund has been set up at this New Haven university’s drama school

A

Yale

347
Q

$400 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Founded in 1789, this D.C. university is the oldest Catholic college in the U.S.

A

Georgetown

348
Q

$600 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Moor’s Indian Charity School, founded about 1750, is the ancestor of this N.H. Ivy League college

A

Dartmouth

349
Q

$800 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| “Sister school” that’s involved in investing $7 million to redevelop So. Hadley, Mass., where it’s located

A

Mount Holyoke

350
Q

$1000 ||| Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ||| Tulane University is the largest privately run institution of higher learning in this state

A

Louisiana

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