Brentwood Preparatory School Magazine

House General Knowledge Competition Congratulations to Heseltine for winning the House General Knowledge competition. Each house had 4 pupils in a team comprising of a student from each year. It was a hard fought contest with some very tricky questions. Here are a sample of the questions, how well would you have done?! ART AND LITERATURE Who was created by Gepetto the woodcarver? Who painted the Mona Lisa? Who stole Christmas in a Dr Seuss book? Who is the druid in the Asterix books? What is the name of the Lion in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’? Who has written the prize winning book ‘The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish’? Who are the two detectives in the Tintin series of comic books? HISTORY ROUND What ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage in 1912? In which country in ancient times was mummification carried out on important people when they died? Who was the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ in the Crimean War? What famous structure was built on Salisbury Plain in the third millennium BC? What was signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215? Which King received an arrow in his eye at the Battle of Hastings? What country was Adolf Hitler born in? SCIENCE ROUND What colour are dandelions? How many sides does a hexagon have? What has the scientific formula H2O? Brentwood School Preparatory 31 The Answers for the General Knowledge questions Art and Literature: Pinocchio. Leonardo da Vinci. The Grinch. Getafix. Aslan. Neil Gaiman. Thompson and Thompson. History: Titanic. Egypt. Florence Nightingale. Stonehenge. Magna Carta. King Harold II. Austria. Science : Yellow. 6. Water. A. Violet. Chalk. Pears. Terrabyte. News : Downton Abbey. Tokyo. Eagles. Jeremy Corbyn. US president. Syria. New Zealand. Which is the only vowel not on the top row of a computer keyboard? What is the innermost colour of a rainbow? Which stone, a form of calcium carbonate, are the White Cliffs of Dover made from? Comice, Conference and Williams are varieties of which fruit? In computing, what is Tb short for? NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS What TV show featuring a stately home and the lives of both the servants and the Lords ended at Christmas after 6 series? In which country or city will the next Olympics take place? Which birds have been trained to grab illegal drones out of the sky? Who won the leadership of the Labour Party after the last general election? What job does Donald Trump want to have? What country bordering the Mediterranean sea is causing tension in the world because of a civil war? Which country is currently trying to choose a new flag?