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1/10 Rotterdam has five traditional student societies. Which is the largest (based on number of members)?

2/10 In 2013, the university celebrated its centenary. When was Erasmus University founded?

1914

1998

1973

1913

3/10 Our institute was founded by J.A. Ruys, C.A.P. van Stolk, Mr W.C. Mees. What did these three men have in common? They were all three...

Factory owners

Port barons

Gangsters

Owners of football club Feyenoord

4/10 At the beginning of World War II, the then-called Nederlandsche Economische Hoogeschool had about eight hundred students. How many of them died during the war (as far as is known)?

517

3

52

Zero

5/10 The university has several statues of its namesake Desiderius Erasmus. These include the bronze Desiderius Multiplex in the Erasmus building, with which traditionally PhD students have their picture taken. There is another statue of Erasmus in Park Noord, made in China and donated in 2009 by a car tyre company from Epe. Why did that company give the statue to the university?

The university had no statues of Erasmus at the time

The director of the company thought an existing statue on campus was too ugly

The company had accidentally received two Erasmus statues

The director of the company was a distant descendant of Erasmus

6/10 On the side of the Tinbergen building are tiles with a work of art by a famous artist. Which artist created this work?

Jackson Pollock

Corneille

Karel Appel

Wassily Kadinsky

7/10 The campus was once the setting of a famous Dutch film. In it, campus Woudestein played a part, not as a university but as a hospital. Which film was this in?

Flodder

Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange)

Turks fruit (Turkish delight)

Schatjes (Cuties)

8/10 The predecessor (until 1998) of the independent university magazine Erasmus Magazine had a Latin name. What was it called?

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

Cogito Ergo Sum

Quod Novum

Luctor et Emergo

9/10 The economist Jan Tinbergen is perhaps the best-known scientist in EUR's history. The tallest building on campus Woudestein is named after him. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969. In 2021, an alumnus of Erasmus University also won the Nobel Prize in Economics, with research on causal relationships in economics. What is his name?

Guido Imbiss

Guido Inbus

Guido Imker

Guido Imbens

10/10 The university is of course named after Desiderius Erasmus – like so many things in Rotterdam. But what is actually the connection between the city and this celebrity?

He wrote his most important books here

He died here

He designed a bridge here

He lived here as a child

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