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

Cardinal and gold belong to the crosstown rival; the fight songs are 'Sons of Westwood' and 'Mighty Bruins'.

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

That made it the second UC campus after Berkeley; the Southern Branch opened that September with 250 junior-college students and 1,250 teacher trainee...

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

The 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

The developers Edwin and Harold Janss knew a university would lift the value of everything they owned around it.

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 first classes were held with 5,500 students in four buildings arranged around a quad.