How well do you know your college? Quiz yourself!

  1. This Worcester college was the only American college at which Sigmund Freud spoke.
  2. Seven of this Worcester college’s 14 residence halls are named after trees.
  3. Which Worcester college has the most people affiliated with the U.S. Supreme Court as alumni or family of alumni, including Clarence Thomas (attended), John Roberts (wife attended) and Antonin Scalia (son attended)?
  4. Which Worcester college was once destroyed by a tornado?
  5. Which Worcester college has a student population that is historically more than 65 percent male?
  6. Which Worcester college is rumored to be haunted and has a dorm that once belonged to an affluent New York family?
  7. This Worcester college (which also has campuses in Boston and New Hampshire) is renowned for providing education in medicinal studies and has prepared more students for professional careers in pharmacy than any other institution in the world.
  8. This Worcester college was originally opened as a teacher training school in 1874.
  9. Graduates from this Worcester college include a head football coach at Notre Dame, a president and CEO of the Basketball Hall of Fame and a Minnesota Twins baseball player.
  10. This Worcester college has been the answer to questions on “Jeopardy” 10 times.
  11. Craig Mello was a professor at this Worcester college and was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of RNA interference.
  12. Founded in 1887, this Worcester college was the first graduate school in the country.
  13. Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry, graduated from this Worcester college in 1908.
  14. This Worcester college, which also has a campus in Paxton, has its founding roots in Quebec, Canada.
  15. More than 92 percent of this Worcester College’s graduates stay in Central Massachusetts upon graduating.

Bonus Question: There was another college in Worcester that was founded in 1849 and closed in 1934.  Laura Spellman, who later married John D. Rockefeller, went to this women’s college.  What was it called?

Answers: (1) Clark University (2) Becker College (3) College of the Holy Cross (4) Assumption College (5) Worcester Polytechnic Institute (6) Becker College (7) Massachusetts College of Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (8) Worcester State University (9) Assumption College (10) College of the Holy Cross (11) University of Massachusetts Medical School (12) Clark University (13) Worcester Polytechnic Institute (14) Anna Maria College (15) Quinsigamond Community College (Bonus) Oread Institute.

By Jennifer Russo