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Old 07-06-2008, 11:04
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Question Schools

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1. Which 2 word Latin term means one's school, university or college? - Alma Mater - Von

2. Who created the appalling schoolgirls of St. Trinians? - Ronald Searle - Davesatan

3. Name the cruel schoolmaster in Nicholas Nickleby whose establishment was set in Yorkshire. - Wackford Sqeers - jaysay

4. Which public school's name is an anagram of ah bare shreds? - Haberdashers - Churchill

5. Both the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales attended which Scottish public school near Elgin? -Gordonstoun - Churchill

6. Which 1969 film starring Maggie Smith is an Edinburgh schoolmistress of the 1930's? - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Bruv

7. Which school did Lord Byron, Robert Peel and Winston Churchill each attend? - Harrow - Davesatan

8. Who had a UK Christmas no. 1 hit in 1980 with "no one quite like grandma"? - St Winifred's Shool Choir - Davesatan

9. Which leading school for girls did Dorothy, Penelope and Millicent Lawrence found in 1885? - Roedean - Von

10. What education movement was founded in 1780 by Robert Raikes - Sunday School (I hated it) - emmylou

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