Category: Quiz

September 23, 2021

You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity

A Quiz and Book Excerpt

More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we display ourselves to a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our...

July 26, 2019

Are You An Apollo 11 Mission Expert?

This week we’ve celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission with a guest post by Kelly Oliver, an excerpt from her her book Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions, and a summer reading list of books with topics...

July 12, 2019

Are You a Dinosaur Expert?

“This book is excellent. Rather than simply a profile of twenty-five dinosaurs, it puts each of these in context of its discovery and significance in terms of the science of paleontology, as well as comparisons with close relations. Thus, it...

June 13, 2018

Happy 125th Anniversary to Columbia University Press!

On this day in 1893, Columbia University Press was established as a separately incorporated not-for profit organization affiliated with Columbia College, and we’ve been publishing strong ever since! At the time, the trustees felt that it was “not expedient for the...

May 31, 2018

Celebrate our Quasquicentennial with us at BookExpo 2018!

Our booth at BookExpo 2018 opens today! This year’s meeting is particularly exciting because we’re celebrating our 125th Anniversary with you—our industry partners and readers! There are two ways for you to join in the festivities: Stop by our booth...

February 10, 2017

Fact or Fiction: how much do you know about the future of the US economy?

Take a quiz based on BUILDING THE NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY: SMART, FAIR, AND SUSTAINABLE, by Jeffrey D. Sachs, with a foreword by Bernie Sanders!

January 26, 2017

How Much Do You Know About Corporate Strategy?

Take a quiz on corporate strategy, with information pulled from the many case studies in IF YOU’RE IN A DOGFIGHT, BECOME A CAT!: STRATEGIES FOR LONG-TERM GROWTH, by Leonard Sherman!

September 29, 2014

Flying Dinosaurs Challenge

Take a challenge on flying dinosaurs written specially for the CUP blog by John Pickrell, author of FLYING DINOSAURS!

April 16, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz Answers

Columbia University Press has had the privilege of publishing two volumes of critical essays by the poet and critic William Logan, Our Savage Age: Poetry and the Civil Tongue and The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. As...

April 12, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz

Take our quiz on William Logan’s poetry criticism for a chance to win FREE copies of William Logan’s Our Savage Age and The Undiscovered Country!

January 31, 2012

The Kitchen as Laboratory Quiz

Sure you love a great grilled cheese sandwich but do you know the science behind what distinguishes a good from a bad sandwich? Test your knowledge of the science and psychology with this quiz based on The Kitchen as Laboratory:...

October 12, 2010

New York City, Questions, Oddities, and History

Every year the librarians at the New-York Historical Society Library field thousands of questions from patrons. In When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green? 102 of the most compelling questions are collected and answered. These questions illuminate New York’s ...