When Disaster Strikes
When Disaster Strikes: A Quiz on Academic Challenges
Test your knowledge about the trials and tribulations faced by aspiring academics in this engaging quiz. From unexpected setbacks to remarkable resilience, discover the stories behind some notable individuals in academia.
- 6 intriguing questions
- Multiple choice format
- Learn surprising facts and anecdotes
Who failed to be admitted to medical school (rejected from 10 schools)?
David Saxby
David Lloyd
Randy Bindra
Jim Woodburn
Who took >8 years to complete PhD and took >10 years to get promoted from level B to C?
Laura Diamond
Mike Simmonds
Rod Barrett
David Lloyd
Who received this response to a fellowship application: “We have brought you to [here] in advance of your interview to tell you that whilst your application is sitting first by rank order, the [panel] cannot give their most senior fellowship to study sore feet“?
Rod Barrett
Jim Woodburn
David Saxby
Laura Diamond
Who didn't back up their data collected during their PhD and lost it all?
Jim Woodburn
Randy Bindra
David Lloyd
David Saxby
While waiting for their PhD scholarship to come through, who worked as a research assistant installing recording devices in the cars of old people in -30 C?
Michel Coppieters
Laura Diamond
David Saxby
Mike Simmonds
Who, when they published their very first PhD paper, had an Editor-in-Chief dedicate their Editorial to it: thrilled for the first second, paralyzed from the next second… The Editor said that the topic researched was “impossible” and that he “cringed” every time he heard anyone claim otherwise!
David Lloyd
Rod Barrett
Michel Coppieters
Mike Simmonds
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