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100

"I'm primarily a medievalist. My PhD was on medieval dream poetry, and tried to think about how we might read medieval dream poems through conventions of setting."

Dr Lotte Reinbold

100

"The ambiance is great. The drinks are great. The servers are simply the best! The food sucks."

The Eagle

100

The event marking when students have made it to the midpoints of their degrees.

Halfway Hall

100

Sylvia Plath

Newnham College

100

How many Cambridge colleges are there?

31

200

"[I have] publish[ed] on topics including contemporary literary prizes (on Han Kang's The Vegetarian and the Booker International Prize), horror cinema (on Jordan Peele's zoopolitics), and the medical humanities (on representations of multispecies reproduction, co-written with Georgia Walton)."

Dr Dominic O'Key

200

"Quiz and pizza. Excellent pizza."

The Red Bull

200

What was the theme to Pembroke May Ball in 2025?

Sub Rosa

200

Lord Byron

Trinity College

200

This multinational biopharmaceutical and biotechnology company is headquartered in Cambridge.

AstraZeneca

300

"Her first book, Uncle Tom Mania (University of Georgia Press, 2005) is about slavery and abolition. It examines their representations in three interconnected and transatlantic forms: blackface minstrelsy, melodrama, and fiction."

Prof Sarah Meer

300

"For those looking for a more extravagant or upscale night out, this venue might feel a bit too casual."

The Granta

300

What form of entertainment does the Cambridge Fringe Festival offer?

Comedy

300

William Wordsworth

St John's College

300

Redevelopment of the Grafton Shopping Centre is set to begin in early 2027. With a margin of error of 3 years, in which year was it opened by Queen Elizabeth II?

1984

400

"[She] has variously authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited four books about William Blake, including her first monograph, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (CUP, 2010) and William Blake in Context (CUP, 2019)."

Dr Sarah Haggarty

400

"Nice pub, if you like to clear your own table."

The Baron of Beef

400

C-Sunday has just been and gone. We know C stands for Caesarian Drinking Soc, but who did they fight and emerge victorious over in order for the day to be named after them?

The Green Giants Drinking Soc of Girton College

400

Christopher Marlowe

Corpus Christi College

400

Pink Floyd hail from Cambridge, being known regulars at The Anchor pub. A song features on their album 'Ummagumma' which is named after one of their favourite places to chill - what is it called?

Grantchester Meadows

500

"In general my research revolves around late medieval religious and early Reformation literature, especially the ways in which these texts speak to political and pastoral concerns."

Prof Alex da Costa

500

"For the first time this year I saw someone actually using a pub’s fruit machine – Million Pound Drop – a woman who didn’t look like a millionaire, but claimed to “always win on this” as she explained how it worked to the barman who’d gone over to stand and watch"

The Bath House

500

St John's College students can get a special ticket with a specific name for their May Ball - what is it called?

DOUBLE POINTS: Why is it called this?

'1888 Club' Ticket

500

Siegfried Sassoon

Clare College

500

Only Oliver Cromwell's head was buried in Cambridge, with the rest of him being buried at Westminster Abbey. At which college could you theoretically dig up his head?

Sidney Sussex College