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