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Schools Quiz I
- Which school of witchcraft and wizardry was attended by Harry Potter?
- Which teacher taught at the fictional Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh?
- Pupils of which school are known as Wykehamists?
- Which boarding school was created by cartoonist Ronald Searle?
- The cruel fictional Victorian school Dotheboys Hall features in which Charles Dickens novel?
- Which school did former Prime Ministers Peel, Palmerston and Churchill all attend?
- In which school, founded by Plato, did Aristotle study for twenty years?
- Miss Agatha Trunchbull is the tyrannical headmistress of Crunchem Hall in which Roald Dahl children's book?
- Which boarding school did Prince Charles attend in the north-east of Scotland?
- Which play, set in the early 1980s, opens in Sheffield's Cutlers' Grammar School?
- Which 1967 British drama film is about Mark Thackeray who takes a teaching post at North Quay Secondary School in the tough East End of London?
- Famous for its school, Eton is a historic market town in which English county?
Answers:
- Hogwarts
- Miss Jean Brodie
- Winchester College (after school's founder, William of Wykeham)
- St Trinian’s
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Harrow
- The Academy
- Matilda
- Gordonstoun
- The History Boys (by Alan Bennett)
- To Sir, with Love
- Berkshire
Famous Schools Quiz II
- Mr Chips taught Greek and Latin during a 43-year long teaching career at which school?
- Which real life school is the setting for Tom Brown’s School Days?
- Which boarding and day school in Wiltshire did both The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Eugenie of York attend?
- Which king established Eton College in 1440 as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys?
- Rudge Park Comprehensive featured in which TV series?
- Which high school features in the film Grease?
- Which school does Billy Bunter attend?
- Malory Towers, based on the girls' boarding school Benenden School, is a series of six novels by which children's writer?
- Which well known phrase can refer to the business and social connections amongst former pupils of male-only private schools?
- Which ancient temple was best known for its Peripatetic school of philosophy founded by Aristotle?
- Mrs McClusky was the best known head teacher of which school?
- Which fictional TV school was set in Rochdale but changed its location to Greenock, Scotland?
- Which programme was set in the fictional Fenn Street Secondary Modern School?
- "School's Out" is a 1972 song first recorded by which American rock band?
- In which year were the last O-levels awarded?
Answers:
- Brookfield Grammar School (in a book by James Hilton)
- Rugby
- Marlborough College
- Henry VI (6th)
- The Inbetweeners
- Rydell High School
- Greyfriars School (in a book by Frank Richards)
- Enid Blyton
- Old Boys Network
- The Lyceum
- Grange Hill
- Waterloo Road
- Please Sir!
- Alice Cooper
- 1987