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