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EM end-of-year quiz 2024

EM end-of-year quiz 2024

Tim Ficheroux
Elmer Smaling

Gepubliceerd op: 19 December 2024

Quiz

Did you pay careful attention during the student protests against the Israeli attack on Gaza? Do you remember what the budget cuts will mean for the university? And what were those animals doing at RSC/RVSV? If the answers to these questions come easy to you, then do the EM end-of-year quiz. Twenty questions about 2024.

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The University Library

Question 1 of 20

Panic in the University Library earlier this year! Smashed mice, scratched tables, the information board beyond repair, ruined chairs and graffiti in the toilets. But what really took the biscuit?*

Someone named Huib knocking over the Christmas tree

Someone named Wim knocking over a table

Someone named Henk having sex in the Mindfulnest

Someone named Gerda burning a book

Valentine’s Day

Question 2 of 20

On Valentine's Day, students told their love stories in EM's own love confessional. According to one of the students, at which degree programme have alarm bells started ringing for the men?*

The finance bros of IBA and IBEB

The mansplainers of History

The future doctors in Medicine who can’t keep their hands to themselves

The snowflakes at EUC

Starbucks

Question 3 of 20

In March, the Executive Board reported the defacement of the wall of the food court to the police, the location of Starbucks at the time. The graffiti was quickly removed. But what did it say?*

From the river to the sea, you only want your coffee

Gaza is being starved and you can’t resist mid coffee

We want Coffee Company

Starbucks sucks!

Gemo!

Question 4 of 20

A spebi at the vrijmibo? Dutch students seem to have strange abbreviations for nearly everything. What do you mean when you say ‘kladiladi’?*

Shut down your laptop, time to do something fun

The state of your relationship somewhere between the third date and meeting someone’s friends

When someone always says they screwed up their exams but consistently get good grades, you call them kladiladi

It means singing typical Dutch-language songs, like André Hazes or French German

Association lore

Question 5 of 20

Which association anecdote is nonsense?*

The founder of NSR wanted to demolish the table in the drinks room because it created inequality

Used condoms are regularly found in SSR’s Virgin Room

Laurentius’ party room is called The Duck because ducks once swam in the basement after a heavy rainstorm

RSC/RVSV only merged because the women’s association was almost bankrupt after an excessively lavish anniversary

House rules

Question 6 of 20

Universities introduced joint guidelines on campus protests in May. What is no longer allowed?*

Face-covering clothing

Insulting the Executive Board

Leaving rubber ducks on campus

Having the fossil industry as a sponsor of a protest

Rotterdam on top

Question 7 of 20

The Dutch Student Union named Enschede the best city for student housing in May. Rotterdam also stood out, albeit negatively. Why?*

It has the longest waiting lists

It has the highest average rents

It has the filthiest toilets

It has the worst insulation

Elections

Question 8 of 20

During the University Council elections in May, a council member filed a complaint against another member for improper conduct during the campaign. The council member had allegedly offered something in exchange for a vote. Later on, the Executive Board also ruled that the behaviour was ‘improper’, but the incident did not affect the outcome of the elections. What did the council member offer in exchange for the vote?*

Oral sex

A Kinder Bueno

Help with study assignments

A donation to relief organisations in Gaza

Trespassing

Question 9 of 20

In May, 169 protesters were arrested at pro-Palestinian protests held at the University of Amsterdam for trespassing. How many of them had been wrongfully arrested, according to the prosecution?*

168

169

Eurekaweek

Question 10 of 20

Although Eurekaweek turned a loss this year, thousands of students very much enjoyed the week. What was the slogan of Eurekaweek 2024?*

Spread your wings

Making minds matter

Reach for the skyline

Ready for take-off

Women on top

Question 11 of 20

Jantine Schuit was presented as the new Rector Magnificus in August. This marks the first time Erasmus University has had an all-female Executive Board. At which university was Schuit a director before joining EUR?*

Tilburg University

Open University

Yale University

Maastricht University

Magnus opus

Question 12 of 20

Professor Paul van Geest spent fifteen years working on a reference work on early Christianity. The theologian was then given the opportunity to present the six-volume work to a prominent figure. Who was that person?*

Pope Francis

Pope Benedict

Cardinal Wim Eijk

Executive Board President Annelien Bredenoord

Animal Day

Question 13 of 20

Cats, fish, turtles and even a chicken visited the RSC/RVSV's student corps building in October. What was the purpose of this visit?*

A mindfulness cuddle session for members

They had been selected for the annual offering to Bacchus

They needed their picture taken for the almanac

Cage fights had been organised

Sustainable

Question 14 of 20

At the university, all kinds of people are working on sustainability, but for many years, there was only one employee working on this full-time at central level. Last year, the department grew to three people. What will happen at this department from 1 January 2025?*

It will be expanded to a Sustainability office with six employees.

Each faculty will get its own full-time sustainability officer

That department will be disbanded

The position will be renamed Functionary University Climate Knowledge, Ecology and Diversity

Excellent advice

Question 15 of 20

To cope with the huge cuts at universities, the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council had an idea. What was their idea?*

To submit more funding applications to the European Union, where funds for basic research are still more abundant

Better alignment of fund applications so that less energy is wasted on writing applications

Academic staff without permanent contracts are to be hired as student assistants from now on

To sell your soul to the Ministry of Defence

Afraid

Question 16 of 20

The big protest against education cuts in Utrecht on 14 November was called off a day in advance due to a security risk. In the end, thousands turned up in Utrecht without any incidents. What risk was Mayor Dijksma of Utrecht so afraid of?*

Violence by pro-Palestinian activists

Violence by Feyenoord anti-LGBT+ hooligans

That the protest would become too big

That the same thing would happen to her as to Mayor Halsema of Amsterdam

Desiderius

Question 17 of 20

Rotterdam rapper Adison dos Reis wrote a rap song about Desiderius Erasmus at Professor Stine Jensen’s request. What did he believe are the similarities between him and the famous thinker?*

Desiderius also had rap battles with his friends as a young man

Desiderius was also born in Gouda

Both wrote something entitled Praise of Folly

Desiderius was also not a fan of Geert Wilders

Short circuit

Question 18 of 20

In December, the personal training room in the sports building closes for several weeks. Why?*

The smell of sweat has become unbearable

To make room for a Starbucks

The room is always too cold or too hot

The plants on the wall are all dead

Fiscal Economics

Question 19 of 20

The Fiscal Economics study programme will eventually be discontinued. Which circumstance did the ESE not cite as a reason for discontinuing the programme?*

The programme is basically a commercial venture

The programme attracts fewer and fewer students

The programme does not match the international profile of the faculty

Fiscal Economics did not attract enough research funding

Noise

Question 20 of 20

Students and staff protested against higher education cuts on campus on 11 December. What did they use to make noise?*

Fireworks

Whistles

Rattles

Rubber ducks

De redactie

Tim Ficheroux
Senior Editor
Elmer Smaling
Senior Editor

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