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This famous New York City landmark was built on land that was given to Columbia in 1814:
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Three of the following U.S. Presidents were affiliated with Columbia. Which one was NOT ?
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3)
Which of the following Columbia alumni is pictured here in his Columbia football uniform?
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4)
Which Columbia graduate or faculty member was later prime minister of his country?
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Columbia is the only school to have two of its graduates in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Who are they?
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6)
The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center opened in Washington Heights in 1928. It was built on the site of a ballpark/arena for which New York team?
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Three of the greatest Broadway composers and lyricists attended Columbia: Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers. Which two collaborated on The Sound of Music ?
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Seven justices of the United States Supreme Court went to Columbia: John Jay, Benjamin Cardozo, William O. Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Charles Evans Hughes, Stanley Forman Reed and Harlan Fiske Stone. Which of the following was NOT named Chief Justice?
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Samuel Bard, who founded Columbia's medical faculty in 1767, was personal physician to which Revolutionary hero?
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10)
Some of the giants of the human rights, civil rights and women's rights movements have attended and/or taught at Columbia. Among them are Jack Greenberg, Louis Henkin, Constance Baker Motley and Telford Taylor. Which one of them has been a member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund since 1949 and helped draw up arguments that prevailed in the famous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 that ended public school segregation?
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11)
Columbia has had 60 faculty, former faculty or alumni win the Nobel Prize. Among the most famous is Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia from 1902 to 1945. Which Nobel Prize did he win?
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12)
One of the following Columbians was NOT a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Who is he?
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13)
Which famous composer spent his last years at Columbia?
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14)
In 1919, John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia from 1909 to 1937, began what would become one of the most emulated academic programs in the history of American higher education. What was it?
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15)
Which of the following major publishing houses was NOT founded by Columbia alumni
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16)
Which Columbian was first Secretary of the Treasury?
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17)
Some of the world's most famous journalists and broadcasters have gone to Columbia. Which of the following, although famous, has NOT won the Pulitzer Prize or an Emmy Award?
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18)
Many of America's leading poets and writers attended or taught at Columbia. Which of the following did NOT attend Columbia?
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19)
Which of the following Columbia actors or filmmakers has become primarily associated with the stage, rather than film?
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20)
This Columbia alumnus was the architect of his country's constitution, even though he was considered "untouchable." Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1928, later became his country's minister of law. Which country was his home?
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21)
Which one of the following Columbians, all inventors, discovered nuclear reactions?
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22)
Johan Jorgen Holst, Columbia College 1960, was Norwegian foreign minister in 1993-94. What diplomatic triumph did he accomplish in 1994?
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23)
Francis Lieber, a Prussian refugee who had fought Napoleon at Waterloo and later came to Columbia to become the father of political science in America, went to Washington to give a Columbia honorary degree to what U.S. President?
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24)
Sid Luckman, Columbia College 1939, was one of the greatest quarterbacks in college and professional football history. He is a member of both the college and pro football Halls of Fame. For what pro team did he help institute the T-formation in 1939?
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One of the greatest actors, singers and civil rights activists of his age, he graduated from Columbia Law School in 1923. He was also an All America halfback in college. Who was he?
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