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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 Henk having sex in the Mindfulnest

Someone named Wim knocking over a table

Someone named Huib knocking over the Christmas tree

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

The finance bros of IBA and IBEB

The mansplainers of History

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?*

We want Coffee Company

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

Starbucks sucks!

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

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’?*

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

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

Shut down your laptop, time to do something fun

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

Association lore

Question 5 of 20

Which association anecdote is nonsense?*

Used condoms are regularly found in SSR’s Virgin Room

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

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

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

House rules

Question 6 of 20

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

Face-covering clothing

Leaving rubber ducks on campus

Insulting the Executive Board

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 worst insulation

It has the longest waiting lists

It has the highest average rents

It has the filthiest toilets

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?*

Making minds matter

Ready for take-off

Reach for the skyline

Spread your wings

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?*

Yale University

Open University

Maastricht University

Tilburg 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?*

Executive Board President Annelien Bredenoord

Pope Benedict

Cardinal Wim Eijk

Pope Francis

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?*

They had been selected for the annual offering to Bacchus

They needed their picture taken for the almanac

A mindfulness cuddle session for members

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.

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

That department will be disbanded

Each faculty will get its own full-time sustainability officer

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?*

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

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

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

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?*

That the protest would become too big

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

Violence by Feyenoord anti-LGBT+ hooligans

Violence by pro-Palestinian activists

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?*

Both wrote something entitled Praise of Folly

Desiderius was also not a fan of Geert Wilders

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

Desiderius was also born in Gouda

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

The room is always too cold or too hot

To make room for a Starbucks

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?*

Fiscal Economics did not attract enough research funding

The programme does not match the international profile of the faculty

The programme is basically a commercial venture

The programme attracts fewer and fewer students

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?*

Rattles

Whistles

Fireworks

Rubber ducks

De redactie

Tim Ficheroux
Desk editor
Elmer Smaling
Deputy editor-in-chief

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