Cinema
Year 8 Mathematics
2020s Pop Culture
Have you been paying attention?
Christmas
100

This 1994 movie starring Tom Hanks is about a man with a low IQ who inadvertently influences several historical events in the US.

Forrest Gump

100

Multiplying two negative numbers produces a number which is...

positive

100

This streaming giant released the wildly popular series Bridgerton in December 2020.

Netflix

100

This is the term when you first had Mr Gilligan as a teacher

Term 4

100

In this 1990 holiday classic, an 8-year-old boy named Kevin is accidentally left behind when his family goes on vacation to Paris.

Home Alone

200

This animated movie follows a robot whose sole task is to clean up Earth after humanity has abandoned it.

WALL-E
200

2 x (2+9) - 8 =

14

200

This artist broke records with her album Future Nostalgia in 2020, which included hits like "Don't Start Now".

Dua Lipa

200

These other Year 8 Maths classes are also taught by Mr Gilligan (Name one)

8MATR, 8MATP

200

This famous Christmas story, written by Charles Dickens, tells the tale of a miserly man who is visted by three spirits on Christmas Eve.

A Christmas Carol

300

Jack and Rose have a not-so-happy ending on a catastrophic holiday.

Titanic

300

This is the technical name for the point on a graph where the value of x=0.

The y-intercept.
300

In 2021, this social media app surpassed 1 billion active users, becoming the most downloaded app in the world.

TikTok

300

What is Mr Gilligan's first name?

Blake

300

Since 1974, this country has a Christmas tradition involving eating KFC for dinner on Christmas, due to the country being generally lacking in Turkey.

Japan

400

This Marvel character started as a villain in the movie franchise, but has recently showed a good heart and morality in a Disney+ show named after them.

Loki

400

A car is travelling at 60km/hr. How fast is the car travelling in metres per minute?

1000m/min

400

In 2022, this 11-minute viral hit by Harry Styles became a global sensation, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

"As It Was"

400

How many days a fortnight do you have Mr Gilligan?

3

400

Excluding Rudolph, name 5 of the 8 other reindeer which leads Santa's sleigh.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen.

500
In the third instalment of an iconic movie series, this movie character delivers the line "Turn to page 394."

Severus Snape

500

A quadrilateral with it's only defining feature being a single set of parallel sides is called what?

Trapezium

500

This actor became the first to win a Golden Globe Award for his role in the 2021 film The Trial of the Chicago 7, and later gained widespread attention for his performance in Dune and Bones and All.

Timothee Chalamet

500

How old is Mr Gilligan?

27 years old

500

From the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, everyone knows that the person is given "a partridge in a pear tree". Name three of the other gifts that they receive.

12 Drummers Drumming, 11 Pipers Piping, 10 Lords a-Leaping, 9 Ladies Dancing, 8 Maids a-milking, 7 Swans a-swimming, 6 Geese a-laying, 5 Golden Rings, 4 Calling Birds, 3 French Hens, 2 Turtle Doves

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