Animal Facts
What animal is the largest animal to ever exist on earth?
What is the Blue Whale?
This city serves as the state capital of Western Australia.
What is Perth?
This world-famous scientist formulated the theory of relativity and is known for the equation E=MC2.
Who is Albert Einstein?
These three core principles—Pride, Respect, and Responsibility—form the foundation of the school's PBS system.
What are the core values of the "Yanco Way"?
This primary dairy ingredient is churned to create butter and cream.
What is milk?
This native Australian marsupial is famous for producing cube-shaped droppings to mark its territory.
What is a wombat?
This European city is the capital of the United Kingdom and is famous for its iconic Big Ben clock tower.
What is London?
This iconic civil rights leader delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Opened in 1922, this prominent local grazier and irrigator's former estate became the foundation for YAHS.
Who is Sir Samuel McCaughey?
This type of fungus is commonly used in baking to make bread dough rise.
What is yeast?
This sea creature has blue blood, nine brains, and three hearts.
What is an octopus?
What city was held as the temporary seat of the Australian Government before Canberra?
What is Melbourne?
This British naturalist wrote On the Origin of Species after studying unique wildlife in the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Translating from "Ut Sementem Feceris Ita Metes" this phrase serves as the official school motto.
What is "As you sow, so shall you reap"?
This is a sweet, dark spread made from yeast extract.
What is Vegemite?
What is the fastest-moving animal?
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
This European capital city is split into two historical parts by the Danube River.
What is Budapest?
This historic South African activist spent 27 years in prison before becoming the country's first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This primary body of water borders the school's massive 257-hectare campus.
What is the Murrumbidgee River?
This essential mineral and seasoning, known chemically as Sodium Chloride, has been used as a food preservative for thousands of years.
What is salt?
This Arctic cetacean is often called the "unicorn of the sea" due to the long, spiral tusk protruding from its head.
What is a narwhal?
This North American capital city is the second-most populous city on the continent and is built over an ancient Aztec capital.
What is Mexico City?
This Renaissance genius painted both the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This notable year marked the historic introduction of coeducation at YAHS, welcoming its very first cohort of girls.
What is 1993?
This highly prized, aromatic fungus, often hunted using trained pigs or dogs, can cost thousands of dollars per kilogram.
What is a truffle?