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British Universities Quiz

A test by Oren Lahav.

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Find out more about the most famous universities of the United Kingdom!
The UK has some great universities. See if you can figure out which statement belongs to which university!

This university is the oldest in the English-speaking world, and is home to the Rhodes Scholarship. Alumni include Kings Edward VII and VIII, writer Lewis Carroll, actor Hugh Grant and T.E. Lawrence, AKA Lawrence of Arabia.

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	Oxford University
	Newcastle University
	Rhodes University
	London School of Economics

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This university contains the largest Students' Union building in England & the second largest in Europe. Alumni include discoverer of the neutron Sir James Chadwick, bestselling British author Alexandra Potter, and first British man to win the London Marathon Hugh Jones.

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	Red Brick College
	University of Liverpool
	University of Warwick
	King College of London

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A bridge on this university's campus has a sphere missing a wedge. According to legends, the sphere was deliberately incomplete so that Clare College could avoid paying a "bridge tax". Alumni include Sir Isaac Newton, Monthy Python comedian John Cleese, and Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.

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	University of Leeds
	University of Cambridge
	University of Nottingham
	Clare Bridge University

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This university's medical schools is the first institution in Europe, second in the world, to be given permission to pursue stem-cell research in human embryos. Alumni include CEO of Disney International Andy Bird, Prison Break and All Saints actor Chris Vance, and Olympic gold medalist Ed Coode.

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	Maxwell College of Wales
	Imperial College London
	Newcastle University
	University of Oxford

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This university's coat of arms include a bear, an elephant, and 2 isotopes of lithium. Alumni include The Office director and actor Stephen Merchant, The Police lead vocalist and bassist Sting, and Britain's first female black Cabinet Ministe Baroness Amos.

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	Royal Wales College
	University of Warwick
	Manchster University
	University of Bristol

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This university has 9,000 personal computers available across the campus along with 150 Sun computers and servers, 8 high performance Sun servers and 256 supercomputers. Alumni include Nigerian writer and first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Wole Soyinka, NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, and Dire Strait vocalist Mark Knopfler.

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	University of Glasgow
	University of Cambridge
	University of Leeds
	Arsenal University

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Canadian universities Queen's, McGill and Dalhousie, as well as Ivy League University of Pennsylvania all have strong ties to this Scottish university, which is also a leader in sports. Alumni include rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union Andy Irvine, Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and father of electromagnetics James Clerk Maxwell.

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	Scotland College
	University of Edinburgh
	Leeds University
	University of Gladgow

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This university owns a considerable estate of 160 buildings centred on the Bloomsbury district of central London near the Russell Square tube station. Notable alumni include US President John F. Kennedy, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, and Mohandas Gandhi.

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	University of Birmingham
	Royal College of Wales
	University of London
	University of Glasgow

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This university has more listed buildings than any other higher education institution in the UK (with more than 100). Notable alumni include the first Prime Minister of Scotland Donald Dewar, first black international player in the history of football Andrew Watson, and inventor of the television John Logie Baird.

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	Scotland University
	University of Leeds
	University of Glasgow
	Royal Academy of Wales

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This university has a long standing tradition of providing the best education in Wales. Alumni include chmistry Laureate Robert Huber, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith of the band Underworld, and Welsh Poet Gillian Clarke.

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