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Graduation quiz — Summer

The “Graduation” quiz — Summer. It has 25 questions in five categories: Ceremony Basics, Academic Dress, Around the World, Famous Speeches, Graduation Music. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Graduation

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Ceremony Basics

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What official document shows that a graduate successfully completed a course of study?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is the square, flat-topped academic cap with a tassel commonly called?

  3. 300

    In a common U.S…

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  4. 400

    What word means both…

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  5. 500

    What graduation speaker title…

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Academic Dress

  1. 100

    In U.S. academic dress, which color traditionally represents law on a hood's velvet edging?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What shape are doctoral gown sleeves under the U.S. academic costume code?

  3. 300

    In U.S. academic dress…

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  4. 400

    In U.S. academic dress…

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  5. 500

    What U.S. code, approved…

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Around the World

  1. 100

    In which country are school graduation ceremonies typically held in March?

  2. 200

    In which country do upper-secondary graduates traditionally receive the white ylioppilaslakki cap?

  3. 300

    Which language is still…

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  4. 400

    Which Oxford University…

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  5. 500

    Which Cambridge University building…

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Famous Speeches

  1. 100

    Who gave Stanford's 2005 address that ended with “Stay hungry, stay foolish”?

  2. 200

    Who spoke at Harvard in 2008 about the benefits of failure and the importance of imagination?

  3. 300

    Who delivered the 2005…

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  4. 400

    Who told UT Austin's…

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  5. 500

    Who returned to Harvard…

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Graduation Music

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The portrait shows the English composer behind North America's best-known graduation processional. Who is he?

  2. 200

    Which march was played at Yale's 1905 graduation and later became a U.S. graduation standard?

  3. 300

    What does “Gaudeamus…

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  4. 400

    What word completes the…

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  5. 500

    The portrait shows the…

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