Season 12, Day 10 - "Oxford or Cambridge?"
It's Library week, and today's quiz is inspired by the Bodleian Library and the Wren Library.
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Bodleian Library / Wren Library
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Named for founder Sir Thomas Bodley, it's the second-largest library in the U.K. (after the British Library). Like the British Library, the Bodleian (nicknamed the "Bodley" or "Bod") is a legal deposit library; a copy of each book published in the U.K. (and Ireland) must be deposited there. The Bodleian Library is reference-only, meaning that no books are loaned out. Each college at Oxford has its own library independent from the Bodleian, which is now the largest library in a collection of 28 libraries known as the Bodleian Libraries.
The Wren Library is the library of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. It's named for its architect Christopher Wren, who designed it in the late 17th century. It contains many significant manuscripts, books, and other written artifacts such as Robert Oppenheimer's handwritten notes describing the "Trinity" atomic bomb test and the lost notebook of Indian mathematician Ramanujan. The library also features a full-size statue of Lord Byron. The statue was originally offered to Westminster Abbey for inclusion in Poets' Corner, but refused due to Byron's "reputation for immorality." The Wren Library is open to the public (with no admission charge).
Season 12, Day 10 - "Oxford or Cambridge?"
NOTE: THIS IS A 50/50 QUIZ! ALL FIVE CORRECT ANSWERS ARE A SINGLE WORD: EITHER "OXFORD" OR "CAMBRIDGE"
[Q1] JOHN GRISHAM AND WILLIAM FAULKNER ATTENDED SCHOOL IN THIS COLLEGE TOWN, SELECTED IN 1841 AS THE SITE OF A CERTAIN U.S. STATE'S FIRST UNIVERSITY
[Q2] FOR THOSE WHO THINK SOMEONE OTHER THAN SHAKESPEARE WROTE HIS PLAYS, EDWARD DE VERE — THE 17th EARL OF THIS — IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR CANDIDATES FOR THE TRUE AUTHOR
[Q3] HAVING PRINTED ITS FIRST BOOK IN 1584, THIS UNIVERSITY PRESS CLAIMS TO BE THE OLDEST PUBLISHING HOUSE IN THE WORLD
[Q4] SMITTEN WITH A GIRL HE SAW IN A MAGAZINE AND DESPERATE TO MEET HER, ROB LOWE CONS HIS WAY INTO THIS UNIVERSITY AND JOINS THE ROWING TEAM IN THE 1980s MOVIE "(UNIVERSITY NAME REDACTED) BLUES"
[Q5] NEARLY 100 PEOPLE DIED IN THE ST. SCHOLASTICA DAY RIOT, WHICH STARTED WITH — I WISH I WERE MAKING THIS UP — TWO STUDENTS FROM THIS UNIVERSITY COMPLAINING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF WINE AT A LOCAL TAVERN
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