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The city of Cambrige (pronunciation (help·info)) is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is also at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen.

Trivia about cambridge

  • Margrethe II studied archaeology at this British university before she became queen of Denmark
  • A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction
  • The name of 2 cities; one in England & one in the U.S., both famous for their universities
  • Matt Damon hails from this education-oriented Boston-area city
  • In 1284 the Bishop of Ely founded Peterhouse, the first of this British school's colleges
  • Oxford graduate Hugh Grant played a student at this other British university in the coming-of-age film "Maurice"
  • Samuel Pepys' famous diary is housed at the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College at this university
  • In jolly old England:BARDIC GEM
  • Wordsworth attended St. John's College at this university but was only a mediocre student
  • Emma Thompson staged an innovative all-female revue while studying at this British university
  • Samuel Pepys attended Magdalene College at this university
  • These sister university cities in England & Massachusetts share a name
  • Sir Isaac Newton
  • Harvard College was founded at Newtowne, Massachusetts in 1636; 2 years later the town was renamed this
  • Churchill College is one of 31 residential colleges at this British university
  • King's College Chapel & the Fitzwilliam Museum are highlights of this English city
  • Because plague closed this university, Newton went home to Woolsthorpe, where he saw that apple fall
  • It traces its roots to a group of scholars in 1209, so this British university is celebrating its 800th anniv. in 2009
  • In 1661 Isaac Newton entered this university's Trinity College as a subsizar, a student with domestic duties
  • A town & gown struggle at Oxford in the early 1200s led some scholars to leave & found this school
  • M.I.T.'s campus is on the Charles River in this Boston-area city
  • The eminent British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was the first female professor at this British university
  • Stephen received his Ph.D. from this prestigious British university in 1966
  • Stephen Hawking(Ph.D., 1966)
  • Arianna Huffington was president of the debating society at this prestigious British university
  • The current Prince of Wales earned his bachelor's degree there
  • 1505:Christ's College is founded at this university
  • Well known colleges of this university are King's, Churchill & St. John's
  • This British university's Experimental Physics Dept. is known as the Cavendish Laboratory
  • You don't need a university education to know that the Earl of this appears in "Henry V"
  • This British university's first college was Peterhouse, founded in 1284; Trinity Hall & others followed
  • This British city's Medieval Latin name was Cantabrigia, so its people are Cantabrigians
  • Its department of physics is the Cavendish Laboratory
  • Among their first wedding gifts were the titles Duke & Duchess of this British university town

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