 - 1. In what year did the University of Liverpool rank as the joint 17th greenest university in Britain?
A) 2024
B) 2007
C) 2009
D) 2008
- 2. What rank did the University of Liverpool hold in the Green League the year before achieving 17th place?
A) 45th
B) 55th
C) 17th
D) 24th
- 3. Which organization supported the Green League that ranked the university?
A) UNESCO
B) WWF
C) Greenpeace
D) UN
- 4. Which of these is explicitly mentioned as a category for point allocation in the Green League?
A) Sports facilities
B) Transport
C) Tuition fees
D) Student welfare
- 5. The university achieved the highest possible award in which area?
A) Carbon emissions
B) Water recycle
C) Energy source
D) Fair trade status
- 6. What was the University of Liverpool the first UK university to develop?
A) An Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research
B) A global climate change database
C) A renewable energy campus power plant
D) Desktop computer power management solution
- 7. What computing platform does the university use in a power-saving environment?
A) Google Cloud Platform
B) Condor HTC
C) Amazon Web Services
D) Windows Azure
- 8. Which technology is used by the university in combination with power management software to address unused computer time?
A) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
B) Wake-on-LAN
C) Blockchain processing
D) Cloud synchronization
- 9. In what year was the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research established?
A) 2008
B) 2024
C) 2015
D) 2020
- 10. What is the primary focus of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research?
A) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
B) Carbon emission reduction
C) Waste management policy
D) Desktop computer power management
- 11. How far is the university campus from Liverpool City Centre?
A) It is located within the city centre
B) Approximately one hour walk
C) Approximately five minutes walk
D) Approximately fifteen minutes walk
- 12. How many non-residential buildings are on the university campus?
A) 192
B) 69
C) 114
D) 51
- 13. What is the total size of the university campus in acres?
A) 192 acres
B) 69 acres
C) 100 acres
D) 114 acres
- 14. Where are the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Ness Botanical Gardens located?
A) Wirral Peninsula
B) Finsbury Square
C) Isle of Man
D) Mount Pleasant
- 15. When did the marine biology research station at Port Erin close?
A) 2011
B) 2006
C) 2012
D) 1892
- 16. How many rooms are provided for students in residential buildings?
A) 1,600
B) 192
C) 100
D) 3,385
- 17. What is considered the centrepiece of the university campus?
A) Central Teaching Hub
B) Vine Court
C) Liverpool Guild of Students
D) Victoria Building
- 18. When was the Victoria Building originally opened?
A) 1892
B) 2011
C) 2012
D) 2008
- 19. What is the Victoria Building now used as?
A) Veterinary Teaching Hospital
B) Victoria Gallery and Museum
C) Central Teaching Laboratory
D) Student Accommodation
- 20. How much was the investment commitment made by the university in 2011?
A) £10m
B) £660m
C) £250m
D) £23m
- 21. What was the name of the first large On-Campus hall of residence opened in 2012?
A) Victoria Building
B) Vine Court
C) Leahurst
D) Central Teaching Hub
- 22. Where did the university operate a satellite campus from 2013 to 2020?
A) Finsbury Square, London
B) Port Erin, Isle of Man
C) Brownlow Hill
D) Wirral Peninsula
- 23. What is the total cost of the Central Teaching Hub project?
A) £10m
B) £23m
C) £660m
D) £250m
- 24. How many students can the laboratories in the Central Teaching Hub accommodate at once?
A) 3,385
B) 69
C) 1,600
D) 114
- 25. Which subjects are taught at the Central Teaching Laboratories?
A) Physics, earth sciences, chemistry and archaeology
B) Medicine and law
C) Humanities and social sciences
D) Veterinary Science and marine biology
- 26. In what year was the University of Liverpool founded?
A) 1884
B) 1881
C) 1903
D) 1899
- 27. Who granted the royal charter to the University of Liverpool in 1903?
A) Queen Victoria
B) King Edward VIII
C) King George V
D) King Edward VII
- 28. The University of Liverpool is a founding member of which group of research-intensive universities?
A) The Russell Group
B) The Ivy League
C) The Coimbra Group
D) The Golden Triangle
- 29. Where is the university's first independent international campus located?
A) Suzhou, China
B) Tokyo, Japan
C) Bengaluru, India
D) Liverpool, England
- 30. How many Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with the University of Liverpool?
A) Five
B) Fifteen
C) Twenty
D) Ten
- 31. What post-nominal letters are used by graduates to indicate the institution?
A) LIV
B) UNILIV
C) UOL
D) Lpool
- 32. In what year did the university admit its first students?
A) 1881
B) 1882
C) 1894
D) 1884
- 33. Who made the world's first public radio transmission while a professor at the university?
A) Johnston
B) King Edward VII
C) Oliver Lodge
D) Victoria
- 34. The University of Liverpool Press was founded in which year?
A) 1903
B) 1894
C) 1899
D) 1881
- 35. The university holds assets on which list?
A) World Heritage List
B) National Heritage List
C) Academic Landmarks List
D) Historic Buildings Registry
- 36. What was the university's income in the 2024/25 period?
A) £500 million
B) £723.5 million
C) £722.9 million
D) £126.2 million
- 37. How many schools and departments is the university divided into?
A) 35
B) 45
C) 25
D) 103
- 38. The university is a member of which research-intensive association in Northern England?
A) Northern Alliance
B) Golden Triangle
C) Russell Group
D) N8 Group
- 39. In what year did the University of Liverpool become an independent university?
A) 1903
B) 2004
C) 1943
D) 1994
- 40. Who discovered the synapse at the University of Liverpool?
A) William Blair-Bell
B) Allan Downie
C) Sir James Chadwick
D) Sir Charles Sherrington
- 41. Which medical treatment did William Blair-Bell work on at the university?
A) Chemotherapy for cancer
B) Synapse mapping
C) Atomic research
D) Smallpox eradication
- 42. What major project were Sir James Chadwick and Sir Joseph Rotblat involved in during the 1930s and 1940s?
A) The Large Hadron Collider
B) Lasker Award research
C) The atomic bomb
D) Smallpox eradication
- 43. Allan Downie was a professor in which field of study?
A) Economics
B) Chemistry
C) Physics
D) Bacteriology
- 44. The University of Liverpool was a founding member of the Russell Group in what year?
A) 1994
B) 1903
C) 2019
D) 2004
- 45. In which project did university physicists and engineers work on two of the four detectors?
A) Large Hadron Collider
B) Atomic bomb
C) Smallpox eradication
D) Laureate online programmes
- 46. Who became the worldwide partner for University of Liverpool online in 2004?
A) Sylvan Learning
B) Kaplan, Inc.
C) N8 Group
D) Russell Group
- 47. Which organization became the new partner for online programmes in 2019?
A) Laureate International Universities
B) Kaplan Open Learning
C) CERN
D) Sylvan Learning
- 48. Who was the first British Nobel laureate in 1902?
A) Sir Charles Sherrington
B) Sir Ronald Ross
C) Sir James Chadwick
D) Charles Barkla
- 49. What is the popular nickname for the Lasker Awards?
A) America's Nobels
B) The University Awards
C) The Russell Prizes
D) The Scientific Oscars
- 50. Which body supported the staff strikes alongside the National Union of Students?
A) Guild of Students
B) The N8 Group
C) Laureate International Universities
D) The Russell Group
- 51. In what year did Laureate stop providing teaching provision for existing students?
A) 2021
B) 2004
C) 2013
D) 2019
- 52. In what year did the University of Liverpool establish its Indian campus?
A) 2026
B) 2019
C) 2024
D) 2022
- 53. Where is the University of Liverpool's Indian campus located?
A) Delhi
B) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
C) Mumbai, Maharashtra
D) Bengaluru, Karnataka
- 54. How many programmes does the University of Liverpool offer?
A) Over 450
B) Exactly 500
C) Over 300
D) Under 400
- 55. In what year was the University of Liverpool School of Medicine established?
A) 1920
B) 1881
C) 1903
D) 1835
- 56. The university holds the endowment ranking of what size in the UK?
A) First-largest
B) Tenth-largest
C) Fifth-largest
D) Ninth-largest
- 57. How many undergraduate students were at the university in the 2024/25 academic year?
A) 33,000
B) 23,490
C) 31,050
D) 7,560
- 58. Which role acts as the professional head of the university?
A) Dean
B) Chancellor
C) Vice-chancellor
D) Pro-Vice-Chancellor
- 59. How many total students were at the university in the 2024/25 academic year?
A) 33,000
B) 31,050
C) 23,490
D) 7,560
- 60. What is the female to male ratio of students based on 2016-17 data?
A) 50:50
B) 55:45
C) 45:55
D) 60:40
- 61. Which consortium counts the University of Liverpool as a founding member?
A) Southern Coalition
B) Western Syndicate
C) Eastern Alliance
D) Northern Consortium
- 62. What rank did the University of Liverpool achieve in the Complete University Guide 2013?
A) 31st
B) 27th
C) 29th
D) 34th
- 63. In the 2008 Times Good University Guide, what was the University of Liverpool's rank?
A) 34th
B) 29th
C) 31st
D) 27th
- 64. What was the University of Liverpool's global rank in the 2008 THE-QS World University Rankings?
A) 129th
B) 99th
C) 137th
D) 123rd
- 65. In the 2016 Round University Ranking, what was the University of Liverpool's rank in the UK?
A) 29th
B) 25th
C) 15th
D) 19th
- 66. The 2018 U.S. News & World Report ranks Liverpool what position in the world?
A) 129th
B) 123rd
C) 178th
D) 122nd
- 67. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), what rank did Liverpool achieve for research power?
A) 34th
B) 19th
C) 31st
D) 25th
- 68. The Computer Science department at Liverpool was ranked 1st in the UK with what percentage of research rated as world-leading or internationally excellent?
A) 99%
B) 95%
C) 97%
D) 90%
- 69. In the 2019 SCImago Institutions Rankings, what rank did Liverpool achieve globally?
A) 122nd
B) 178th
C) 123rd
D) 129th
- 70. In 2011, by how many places did the university move up in the QS World University Rankings?
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 14
- 71. How far is the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University campus from Shanghai?
A) 200 km
B) 50 km
C) 90 km
D) 120 km
- 72. What is the primary teaching language at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University?
A) English
B) Bilingual Chinese and English
C) Cantonese
D) Mandarin
- 73. Which of these is a field of study offered by Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University?
A) Medicine
B) Law
C) Fine Arts
D) Engineering
- 74. In 2021, which hall was renamed after Dorothy Kuya?
A) Philharmonic Court
B) Derby Old Court
C) Tudor Close
D) Gladstone Halls
- 75. What is the name of the project that oversees sports at the University of Liverpool?
A) Sport Liverpool
B) University Sports Hub
C) Liverpool Athletics Union
D) The Liverpool Sport Project
- 76. What is the name of the national body that organizes university sports competitions?
A) BUCS
B) National University League
C) Inter-Varsity Council
D) UK Sport
- 77. Which competition involves the universities of Liverpool, Leeds, and Manchester?
A) The University Games
B) Northern Tri-League
C) Varsity Cup
D) Christie Championships
- 78. What is the 'derby' event between the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University called?
A) Varsity Cup
B) Liverpool City Cup
C) Mersey Challenge
D) Christie Cup
- 79. What campaign criticized the University of Liverpool for expensive student halls in 2018?
A) Cut the Rent
B) Affordable Campus Protest
C) Fair Housing Initiative
D) Student Living Collective
- 80. Which off-campus accommodation is listed by the University of Liverpool?
A) Apollo Court
B) Greenbank Student Village
C) Myrtle Court
D) Crown Place
- 81. What type of university is XJTLU recognized as by the Chinese Ministry of Education?
A) Public-private partnership
B) Not-for-profit
C) Government-owned
D) Private-for-profit
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