Which book tells the story of a reluctant lecturer who struggles with his relationship with a fellow academic?
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
2. In Good Will Hunting, which university does Skylar, the British love-interest of Will Hunting, intend on studying medicine at after graduating from Harvard ?
Cambridge
John Hopkins
Stanford
3. Which book will you find this sentence about Oxford University? “I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly.”
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
4. In Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee what’s the name of the professor who loses his job after an affair with both the university’s secretary and a student?
Grady Tripp
Archer Sloane
David Lurie
5. In which film does one the main characters say this “I shall change my name; from now on I shall insist upon being known as Mary, Mary Shelley.”
St Elmo’s Fire
Monsters University
Educating Rita
6. Who teaches Hitler studies at the College-on-the-hill in the novel White Noise?
Philip Swallow
Jack Gladney
Nathan Zuckerman
7. In which film does a lecturer coax a student into believing that history and religion are merely gossip that has lingered and been written down, leading them to create their own rumours?
Gossip
Social Network
Legally Blonde
8. The professor of English in John Williams’ novel Stoner originally studied what subject before reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and switching majors?
Physics
History
Agriculture
9. In Friends, Ross Geller has a PhD from which university?
University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of California
10. In which film does Elijah Wood star as a US student who stumbles across a murder scene with his professor?
The Oxford murders
Dead Man On Campus
Kill Your Darlings
11. In Animal House, the dean of the college tries to kick a fraternity off campus because of their partying ways. What was the name of the fraternity?
Delta Lambda Zeta
Delta Nu
Delta Tau Chi
12. In which book does Sara Gaskell, chancellor of a college in Pittsburgh fall pregnant with a colleague’s child?
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Changing places by David Lodge
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
13. In The Five-Year Engagement, Violet Barnes, a psychology PhD graduate, bases her main thesis on what?
People opting to eat stale donuts versus waiting for fresh donuts
A discussion about how to approach a group of women at a bar
Black holes
14. In which film biopic will you hear the following being said?
“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
The Blind Side
A Beautiful Mind
Theory of Everything
15. In this British TV series, professor Tony Shales embarks on an affair with one of his privileged literature students. What’s her nickname?
Vod
JP
Oregon
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