The EM End of Year News Quiz 2023

Tropical korfball record

Question 1 of 15
On a scorching hot day in June, students of korfball club RSKV Erasmus broke the world record for longest korfball match. The final score was 826-982. Due to the heat, they had to quit early and didn't reach their goal. How long did this korfball match last?*
- 33 hours
- 48 hours
- 53 hours
- 38 hours

Budget cuts!

Question 2 of 15
The university has to make cuts and expects a deficit of 20 to 25 million euros next year. What is not a stated reason for the cuts?*
- Fewer students are expected
- University staff salaries have increased
- Additional security costs due to occupations such as OccupyEUR
- Energy prices are higher

Leftist students

Question 3 of 15
During the most recent elections, GroenLinks-PvdA became the largest party at the campus polling station (and in EM's poll). In March, there were provincial elections. Which party became the biggest at Woudestein in March?*
- BBB
- GroenLinks-PvdA
- PvdA
- GroenLinks

Two hundred professors more

Question 4 of 15
The Dutch Network of Women Professors wants as many women as men as professor by 2036. To achieve this, an additional 200 women should be appointed as professors in the coming period. Why in 2036?*
- In 2036, it will have been four hundred years since the first woman was appointed professor at a Dutch university
- In 2036, it will be four hundred years since the first Dutch university was founded
- In 2036, it will be four hundred years since the first woman student was admitted to a Dutch university
- In 2036, it will be four hundred years since Harvard University was founded

50 or 110?

Question 5 of 15
The university celebrated its 110th anniversary in November. But in fact, Erasmus University has only existed for fifty years, since 1 February 1973, when the Netherlands School of Economics and the medical faculty of the Dijkzigt hospital merged. Where exactly was the name 'Erasmus University' determined in those days?*
- At minister De Brauw's Christmas party
- In the coffee room of the Feyenoord stadium
- In the McDonald's next to the City hall
- In the sauna in mayor Thomassen's backyard

Annoying company

Question 6 of 15
Tutoring company AthenaStudies fell into disrepute this year. Why?*
- Exam training sessions were given based on stolen exams
- The company made app groups and emails look like official university communications
- Students got massive fail marks after being guided by the company
- The summaries sold by the company had been written by ChatGPT

Chat bot

Question 7 of 15
In January, exam boards expressed concerns about ChatGPT. Why?*
- They found the quality of the chatbot mediocre
- They see privacy issues with the company behind the artificial intelligence
- More and more students are being caught cheating with ChatGPT
- They do not see work created using AI as someone’s own work

Sustainable living is hard

Question 8 of 15
Many students want to live more sustainably but find it difficult to make that happen, research among RSM students shows. To this end, the researchers asked all kinds of questions about their sustainable behaviour. What finding came out of the survey?*
- One in five RSM students wants to work at Shell
- One in five RSM students sometimes come to university by car
- One in five RSM students regularly spend more than half an hour in the shower
- One in five RSM students uses Vitam cutlery more than once

Unique clothing

Question 9 of 15
Skadi's ladies won this year's Varsity, the most important student rowing tournament in the Netherlands, for the first time. Which garment are the winners allowed to wear now that other members are not?*
- Purple trousers
- Glitter dresses
- White jackets
- Bow ties

High interest

Question 10 of 15
Interest rates on student loans went to 0.46 per cent this year and 2.56 per cent next year. Many students are angry about this. But how high was the interest rate at its peak in 1992?*
- 11 per cent
- 18 per cent
- 4.17 per cent
- 6.66 per cent

Everyone professor

Question 11 of 15
Increasingly, there are calls to make everyone a professor. The distinction between assistant professor, associate professor and full professor is mostly cosmetic, says The Young Academy. But what exactly is the purpose of the plan to call everyone a professor?*
- So that there are more female professors
- So that everyone is addressed equally, because students call everyone a professor anyway
- So that everyone can confer doctoral degrees, which is actually already regulated by law
- So that the cortège at academic ceremonies is longer because everyone is allowed to wear a toga

Nightly occupation

Question 12 of 15
A group of twenty students slept one night in the Erasmus building in February while occupying the space in front of the Aula. Among other things, they demanded that the university cut ties with the fossil industry. Some OccupyEUR students were angry the next day. Why?*
- They were not allowed to finish watching Shrek
- The Executive Board refused to declare a climate emergency
- The Executive Board president had personally come to fight the protesters
- The Executive Board had pretended the police were coming

Name issue

Question 13 of 15
Some students have no surname. That leads to an embarrassing problem, EM research showed this summer. But what problem exactly?*
- They cannot register for minors
- They don't get an energy allowance
- They do not get study financing
- They get a dot or dash as a first name on their diploma

Worrying trend

Question 14 of 15
The GGD public health service and Erasmus MC launched a survey of students in May because of a worrying trend. What advance is the survey about?*
- Students have more and more STIs
- Students are vaping more and more
- Students have more and more mental problems
- Students have more and more scabies

Puppet of the Nazis

Question 15 of 15
Historian Merel Leeman called the Nederlandsche Economische Hoogeschool, the predecessor of the university, 'a puppet of the Nazis' in her recent book on students in the resistance. What is she critical of?*
- Resistance was resisted and the occupation normalised
- The then director K.P. van der Mandele wanted to train students for the new economy under German rule
- All answers are correct
- The university's predecessor wanted to remain neutral and stay open at all costs
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Tropical korfball record