Where am I?
The 4 colleges associated with LA&PS
What are Founders, McLaughlin, New College, and Vanier?
The 3 largest undergraduate programs housed in LA&PS (Bonus points if you can list them in order)
What are:
1. Commerce (3,556)
2. Information Technology (1,377)
3. Business & Society (1,188)
York hosted this multi-sport event in 2015, which saw more than 6000 athletes from 41 countries competing.
What are the Pan Am Games?
The name of the campus-wide student run newspaper at York University, or the mythical sword of King Arthur
What is Excalibur?
The name of the family-owned restaurant in the basement of Stong College, known for its Caribbean fare
What is The Orange Snail?
The top 5 countries of citizenship for LA&PS international students in 2023-2024 are China, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, and this country, located in South Asia
What is Bangladesh?
The name of the annual varsity athletic competition between York & TMU
What is the Battle of the North?
On its inception, York University was given this gift by our sister school, The University of York in the UK
(Bonus if you can identify where it is located)
What is The York Room? Located on the 9th floor of North Ross
The name of the man-made, storm water pond designed to prevent floods found on the west end of campus
What is Stong Pond?
The 3 Deans who have served since the inception of LA&PS (Bonus points if you can list them in the correct order)
Who are:
1. Dean Martin Singer (2009-2015)
2. Dean Ananya Mukherjee-Reed (2015-2020)
3. Dean JJ McMurtry (2020-Present)
The English translation of York's motto, "Tentanda Via"
What is "The way must be tried"?
The names of the two historical "Houses" located on York's Keele campus
What are the Stong House & Hoover House?
There is a time capsule that was hidden in 2004 somewhere on campus, in this building
What is the Atkinson Building?
The number of seats on Senate that were held by LA&PS faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year (hint: on Senate, there are 99 seats for all Faculties combined)
What is 34 seats?
Fun fact: this makes up 20% of Senate (169 seats total), but LA&PS also has representation through ex-officio members (the Dean), student reps, and committee chairs.
The York Lions were previously known as the York ____ and ____ until they changed to the gender-neutral name Lions in 2003
What is Yeomen & Yeowomen?
There is a York Post-Doctoral award for outstanding research named after this 1986 Nobel Prize winning chemist
Who is John C. Polanyi?