Q 01/05

What are UCLA's official school colours?

A) Cardinal and gold

B) Green and white

C) True blue and gold

D) Navy and orange

Answer · why

C) True blue and gold

UCLA's colours are True blue and gold; cardinal and gold belong to crosstown rival USC. The Bruins' fight songs are 'Sons of Westwood' and 'Mighty Bru...

Q 02/05

In what year did the Los Angeles State Normal School become the Southern Branch of the University of California?

A) 1919

B) 1929

C) 1935

D) 1946

Answer · why

A) 1919

In 1919 the legislature turned the Los Angeles State Normal School into the Southern Branch of the University of California; it opened that September ...

Q 03/05

Before Westwood, the campus was on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood, on land now occupied by what?

A) Paramount Pictures Studios

B) Dodger Stadium's parking lots

C) The Griffith Observatory

D) Los Angeles City College

Answer · why

D) Los Angeles City College

Los Angeles City College now occupies the Vermont Avenue site; the Normal School moved there in 1914 and had outgrown its 25 acres by the mid-1920s.

Q 04/05

The Janss Steps are named for the brothers who sold the Westwood land for how much?

A) $1, as an outright gift to the state

B) $1 million, under a third of its value

C) $10 million at the full market rate

D) $100,000 paid entirely in war bonds

Answer · why

B) $1 million, under a third of its value

Edwin and Harold Janss sold the Westwood land for $1 million, under a third of its value, knowing a university would lift the worth of everything else...

Q 05/05

The Westwood campus opened to students in which year?

A) 1901

B) 1912

C) 1919

D) 1929

Answer · why

D) 1929

The Westwood campus opened in 1929, with 5,500 students attending classes in four buildings arranged around the quad.