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This U2 song is the one most frequently played at funerals:
If God will send his angels
In God’s country
Where the streets have no name
With or without you
With or without you
The title of Achtung Baby was inspired by a line from this movie:
Schindler’s List
Slaughterhouse Five
Hogan’s Heroes
The Producers
The Producers
. The word “graduate” comes from the Latin word for this:
Evaluate
Punish
Humiliate
Step
Step
The U of O was first established as a college the same year that two Germans wrote this influential book.
Max and Moritz: A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks
The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago
The Communist Manifesto
Heinrich’s Guide to Adventures on the Rideau
The Communist Manifesto
In The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers, in which Basil Fawlty intones that no one should mention the war, how many times is it actually mentioned?
5
8
11
19
19
This was U2’s original name:
Feedback
The Hype
B12
Gamma Ray
Feedback
During the original Achtung Baby tour, Bono regularly phoned the White House from the stage in an attempt to contact the President. Though he never reached him, this president did acknowledge the calls during a press conference.
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
The University of Al Quaraouiyine in Fez, Morocco is considered the first university in Africa, founded some 237 years before Oxford. It was founded in this year:
859
1096
1315
1433
859
This award-winning Canadian novelist, who died in 2003, received an MA from Ottawa in 1975. Sadly, the website dedicated to U of O women’s trivia misspells her name.
Carol Shields
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Atwood
Elizabeth Hay
Carol Shields
Basil mistranslated a request from his German guest, “Können wir ein Auto mieten?” as this:
“You’re volunteering to go out to get some meat.”
“Where can we meet our friend Otto?”
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
“We would like our meat cut into smaller pieces.”
“You’re volunteering to go out to get some meat.”
In 2010, Bono acquired a 1.5% stake in this upstart internet platform. Today, that small percentage is estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion.
YouTube
Amazon
E-Bay
The name “Adolf Hitler” has been banned as a baby name in Germany and other countries (not the United States, ahem). Which one of the following names has also been banned in Germany?
Stompie
Nutella
Lucifer
iMac
Stompie
In the United States the most popular major for male students is business administration and management. For female students it’s this:
Women’s Studies
Health Professions
Psychology
Beautology
Health Professions
The term Gee Gee, which is the sports moniker for U Ottawa teams, originally referred to this:
Governor-Generals
Grey and Garnet
Good God, Lemon!
Gossip Girls
Grey and Garnet
(Gee-Gee is also the name for a horse that leads a race, but the nickname was used for Grey and Garnet before that become its official meaning)
Despite The German episode, in 2001, German broadcaster RTL produced the first ever non-English adaptation of Fawlty Towers, renamed this:
Die große Hütte (“The great shack”)
Hotel zum letzten Kliff (“Hotel on the last cliff")
Das Hotel im Wahnsinn (“The hotel in madness”)
Hotel auf Stelzen (“Hotel on stilts”)
Hotel zum letzten Kliff (“Hotel on the last cliff")
Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. co-wrote and produced a song for the Republic of Ireland national football team in time for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, called this:
The Irish Roar
Put ‘Em Under Pressure
The Fields of Athenry
Stand up for the Boys in Green
Put ‘Em Under Pressure
This lovable German TV character from a World War Two-themed TV show that ran from 1965 to 1971 said, “When it comes to war, I try not to take sides.”
Colonel Klink
Otto Flick
Sargent Schultz
Lieutenant Gruber
Sargent Schultz
Nola Ochs holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to ever earn a college degree. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Fort Hays State University in Kansas at this age:
85
87
90
95
95
The university’s motto is:
We’re always in the Top Ten of Ottawa universities!
Deus Scientiarum Dominus Est
Duae linguae sunt melius quam
Gratias Deo non sumus Carleton
Deus Scientiarum Dominus Est (God is the master of the sciences)
The episode, which in 1997 ranked 12th in TV Guide’s 100 Greatest Episodes, was later edited by the BBC not for its cultural insensitivity to Germans but because of this:
A scene in which the actor who played Manuel is actually burned
A scene in which “The Major” uses racial slurs to distinguish between Blacks and Indians
A scene in which Basil hits Sybil
A mention of Irish terrorism close after the 1975 shooting of a British officer by an IRA soldier.
A scene in which “The Major” uses racial slurs to distinguish between Blacks and Indians
During U2’s first dates outside Ireland, they played a gig at Islington’s Hope and Anchor Pub in London, to a crowd of this many people:
96
43
29
9
9
Which of the following German words is an actual expression:
Buchschuldgefühl (noun): the guilt you feel for not reading enough
Netzminderwertigkeit (n.): the feeling that everyone on social media is happier than you
Deutschunübersetzbar (n.): the idea that there's a perfect German word for everything
Schnapsidee (n.): a wild idea that may or may not have been formed under the influence of alcohol.
Schnapsidee (n.): a wild idea that may or may not have been formed under the influence of alcohol.
On a website called “50 Things Only Grad Students Will Understand”, which of the following is NOT listed:
Planning your day around one simple task or errand that you never actually accomplish
You're constantly trying to come up with clever comebacks to annoying questions regarding grad school, e.g. What kind of job can you even get with that degree?
All of your household surfaces are mere extensions of your desk.
You’re happier than you’ve ever been!
You’re happier than you’ve ever been!
Who of the following was NOT a graduate of the U of O?
Alex Trebek
PM Paul Martin
Leslie Feist
Former justice of the Supreme Court Louise Arbour
Leslie Feist
The episode ends with Basil fleeing from a doctor with a sedative needle, when he accidentally runs into this, that knocks him unconscious:
A frying pan held by Manuel
A low door-frame
A wall-mounted moose head
Sybil
A wall-mounted moose head