Geography
What is the name of the longest river in the world?
Amazon River.
When was Hong Kong handed back to China?
1997.
Who is the current British PM?
Liz Truss.
Name three Taylor Swift songs.
Blank Space, Love Story, You Belong with Me etc.
Which district is DGS in?
Yau Tsim Mong.
Which climate zone is Hong Kong located in? (Hint: tropical, sub-tropical temperate, polar.)
Sub-tropical.
Which dynasty came after the Yuan dynasty?
Ming Dynasty.
Who is the founder of Blue Origin?
Jeff Bezos.
Name all the congruent triangle proofs.
SAS, AAS, SSS, ASA, RHS.
What are the names of our school cats?
Ah Fei, Mui, 黑仔
What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara.
What invention helped farmers gather crops faster?
The reaper.
Prince Louis, youngest child of Prince William, is ?th in line to the throne?
Fourth.
Name three pasta shapes.
Macaroni, farfalle, fusilli etc.
How many DGS girls have been top scorers in the DSE?
14.
What is the difference between the UK and Great Britain?
Great Britain doesn't include Northern Ireland, and refers to the island on which England, Scotland and Wales are situated. The UK is a country.
Where is Babylon located today?
Iraq.
On which day was Shinzo Abe assassinated?
July 8th.
Name three chess grandmasters.
Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Garry Kasparov etc.
Where are the 5 house places?
Symons: outside Auditorium,
Gibbins: outside assembly hall;
Hurrell: outside chapel;
Skipton: 6th floor;
Sawyer: outside library
How many US states start with the letter O?
3; Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon.
Name the four presidents on the face of Mount Rushmore.
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln.
Google fired an engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient. Who was he?
Blake Lemoine.
Name all four official languages of Switzerland.
German, French, Italian and Romansh.
There are five houses: Hurrell, Gibbins, Sawyer, Skipton and Symons. They are all names of past headmistresses of DGS. Arrange their names in order of the time they served at DGS.
Skipton --> Sawyer --> Gibbins --> Hurrell --> Symons