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1 At the European Universities Games in Portugal, Argo rowers Tijmen van Rietbergen and Julian Bakker won gold medals in the lightweight coxless pair race. Coxless?
a No pilot
b No doping
c No apples
d No balast
2 The Wageningen Centennial is a commemorative flower developed in The Field, the experimental garden next to Rikilt. What kind of flower is it?
a A rose
b A daylily
c A knotweed
d An orchid
The Wageningen Centennial ©Guy Ackermans
3 The café MLGB opened on Campus Plaza. The letters stand for:
a May Love Grow Bigger
b My Life’s Getting Busier
c May Love Grow Boldly
d My Life’s Getting Better
4 Bachelor’s student Geert van Zandbrink wrote a book about the classical roots of Dutch words. The book is called:
a Post Scriptum
b Linea Recta
c Ad Fundum
d Cum Annexis
5 Only five competitors reached the finishing line in the first Dutch Student Orienteering Championship on the campus. What happened to the rest?
a They got lost
b No one else signed up
c Of all the people who signed up, only five turned up
d The rest finished outside the time
AID 2018 ©Guy Ackermans
6 The AID went pear-shaped for 50 participants. They got…
a drunk
b diarrhoea
c stoned
d lost
7 Rikilt developed a way of distinguishing between different kinds of salt by the sound they make. The principle the method is based on is aptly named:
a The Tequila Effect
b The Rolling Stones Effect
c The Hot Chocolate Effect
d The Doppler Effect
8 Who said what? Match the letters with the right number.
1 ‘A scientist has a use-by date. You have to be very aware of that.’
2 ‘So what do you do? Have a booze-up! And the teachers joined in.’
3 ‘That first day was really horrible’
4 ‘With growing awareness, egocentrism diminishes’
a Extraordinary professor of Sustainable Fisheries Management Adriaan van Rijnsdorp bows out
b Emeritus soil professor Johan Bouma indulges in introspection
c Erstwhile Teacher of the Year Gert Peek confesses
d Biological Recovery and Reuse Technologist Cees Buisman has a profound insight
9 The introduction of the Extended Daytime Schedule meets with few official complaints. The schedule was brought in…
a because students would rather start earlier and finish later
b to reduce crowding in the canteens in peak periods
c because WUR is growing too fast
d to spread bicycle traffic through the Tarthorst over the day
The Ceres solar panels ©Sven Menschel
10 Student Society Ceres wants to use the heat from the beer coolers to…
a heat the earth
b keep the solar panels snow-free
c heat the board room
d heat the building
11 WUR president Louise Fresco wore a sustainable dress at the Opening of the Academic year. What was not used in making the dress?
a Algae silk
b Pineapple leather
c Waste ink from printers
c Bacterial dye
Louise Fresco’s sustainable dress ©Guy Ackermans
12 WUR is going to bestow the title of distinguished professor on outstanding and prominent professors. Who are the first two professors to receive this honour?
a Richard Visser and Marten Scheffer
b Willem de Vos and Marten Scheffer
c Marcel Dicke and John van der Oost
d Willem de Vos and Marcel Dicke
13 The new Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity is based on five fundamental principles. What doesn’t a scientists need to be?
a Original
b Transparent
c Scrupulous
d Independent
14 Wageningen research shows that cows at rest in Portugal prefer to face south. What is the explanation for this phenomenon?
a High-voltage power lines in the area disturb their internal compass
b In prevailing winds, they get least wet when it rains
c This position keeps them coolest in the heat of the day
d Cows’ internal compass is calibrated to 130 degrees
15 The Chinese PhD student Yue Han proposed to his girlfriend in a special location. Where?
a In a hot air balloon above the campus
b Under the new carillon on the campus
c In the panda palace at Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen
d Under the Chinese rubber tree planted by King Willem-Alexander near Atlas
16 Honours students developed the first Wageningen MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) to be created by students. Yes, of course, it’s about…
a cows
b pigs
c chickens
d beer
17 International students can get free classes in Social Dutch at In’to Languages. Why is that, according to rector Arthur Mol?
a So they can make themselves understood in the canteen
b So they can integrate better with indigenous Wageningers
c So they can prepare themselves for a job in the Netherlands
d So they can follow Dutch news
18 PhD student Arjan Droste discovered that it can be windier in the city than in the surrounding countryside. What did he call this effect?
a the Droste effect
b the Wind tunnel effect
c the Wind island effect
d the Vacuum effect
19 Milestones in 2018. True or false?
a 100 years of agricultural education in Wageningen
b Wageningen University the best in the Netherlands for the 13th time in a row
c WUR wins the SustainaBul prize as Holland’s most sustainable university for the 6th time
d Wageningen Connect is the first student party to win seats in the municipal council
20 Wageningen scientists bred the first Dutch banana. What is so special about it?
a The banana contains cannabinol
b The banana grows on substrate
c The banana is resistant to Panama disease
d The banana is straight
The answers are on p.31 in this pdf-file.