General Knowledge Question

Who was Alfred Nobel?
What is a Nobel Prize?

Due: Monday October 7th

Some Websites to help with General Knowledge

Here you can access some websites that will help you answer some of the General Knowledge Questions

Kids Encyclopedia

Ancient History Encyclopedia (Only for Ancient History!)

General Knowledge Question

Who was Hesiod?

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What was Mount Olympus?

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What was Atlantis?

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Who was Odysseus?

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Who was King Arthur?

General Knowledge Question of the Week

What is an Encyclopedia?

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Who was Johannes Gutenberg?

General Knowledge: Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti is a National Park located in Tanzania, Africa. It is well known for the many animals that live there, especially the lions, African leopards, African elephants, Black rhinoceros and African buffalo. Other species that live there are the cheetah, gazelles, topi, elands, waterbucks, hyenas, baboons, impalas, wild dogs, and giraffes. Almost 500 bird species live in the park, including ostriches, secretary birds, marabou storks, martial eagles, lovebirds and vultures.            

    

(Click on the animals' names to see pictures of them!)

Here you can watch a video about the Park!

General Knowledge Question of the Week

What is the Serengeti?

General Knowledge: Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar being murdered by members of the Roman Senate

Julius Caesar is one of the best known politicians and war generals history. He was born in a noble but poor Roman family, and made his fortune and reputation first as a soldier. Eventually, he became a great General in the Roman Army, conquering many lands. He was a member of the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus, and as such he was one of the most powerful men in Rome. Ultimately, he fought a great Civil War with Pompey to have complete power over Rome, and ruled for four years afterwards as Dictator. On the Ides of March (March 15th), 44 B.C., he was assassinated by a conspiracy of Senators, including Brutus, because he was a threat to the Roman Republic. A few years later the Republic ended and the Empire began, when Octavius Augustus became the first emperor of Rome.
The month "July" is named after him!

General Knowledge Challenge of the Week

Who was Julius Caesar?

General Knowledge: The Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem that tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War. Troy and Greece were at war many thousand years ago, and a poet known as Homer wrote the poem describing what happened during the last year of this war, which lasted for at least ten years. The poem specially describes many characters, heroes from both Troy and Greece. The most famous character from the Iliad is Achilles, but we can also find Hector, Paris, Aeneas or Priamus from Troy, and Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ulysses (also known as Odysseus) from Greece. Another known character is Helen of Troy.

The walls of Troy, as seen in the movie "Troy"

The war began when Paris stole Helen, Menelaus' wife, and took her to Troy. All of Greece, under the king Agamemnon (Menelaus' brother) went to war to defend the honor of the greeks. But Troy had very large walls, so they resisted the attack for ten years, until Ulysses planned for the Greeks to enter the city of Troy inside a giant horse, which was supposed to be a gift from Greece to Troy, because they were no longer at war. However, when the Trojans entered the horse into the city, Greeks attacked Troy until the city lost the war.
The episode with the giant horse, which is the end of the Trojan War, however, is not found on the Iliad! The Iliad centers on the part Achilles plays in the war, and how his anger almost made Greece lose the war. He fights with (and kills) the Trojan hero Hector.

Brad Pitt plays Achilles in "Troy"

Another poem by Homer is the Odyssey, which tells the story of how Ulysses, also known as Odysseus, returns to his home in Ithaca after the Trojan war. It took him another ten years to return to his house, because Poseidon, the God of the Sea, was angry with him!
The movie Troy, released in the year 2004, tells the story of this war.

General Knowledge Question of the Week

What is the "Iliad"?

General Knowledge: The Moais

The Moais are statues that can be found in the Easter Island, 

in Polynesia. Easter Island is a part of Chile,although it is very far away in the Pacific Ocean. The people who were originally from the island are called Rapa Nui, and made hundreds of these statues from rock. Almost all of them have very large heads, and their faces have very enigmatic expressions. They were most likely made between the years 1250 and 1500, and represented the ancestors of the Rapa Nui.

The Rapa Nui National Park and the moai are included on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites and consequently the United Nations convention concerning the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage.

General Knowledge Question of the Week

    
What are the Moais?

General Knowledge Question of the Week

What are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores?

April 23: World Book Day!

World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiszation as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes and Shakespeare died. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is recognized as the best writer in Spanish language, as William Shakespeare is possibly the most famous and one of the best writers in English. They are both regarded as two of the best writers who ever lived.

More World Book Day games!

The Gruffalo Chorus

Winnie's Loony Laundry

The Kick Off

Henderson's boys

Beast Quest

Switch: Bug Rescue Game