End of Term House Quiz

Which country was Yung Wing born in?

• Malaysia

• Indonesia

• China

Yung Wing's crowning achievement was...

• ...becoming the first Chinese person to attend Yale

• ...organising the Chinese Educational Mission to give Chinese students an overseas education

• ...promoting closer relations between the US and China as a diplomat

What is Wing pictured doing in the Wing staircase?

• Playing chess

• Giving a speech

• Doing calligraphy

In 1903, Marie Curie...

• ...discovered the elements radium and polonium

• ...invented the X-ray

• ...won the Nobel Prize for physics

What did Marie Curie do during the First World War?

• Developed chemical weapons (but deeply regretted it later)

• Worked as a surgeon doing amputations

• X-rayed wounded men to locate bullets

Which unusually named university did Marie Curie attend?

• The Warsaw Clandestine Flying University

• The Krakow College of Secretive Scientists

• The Bydgoszcz Academy of Underground Physicists

What was Sir Ernest Shackleton best known for?

• Exploring the Amazon

• Exploring the Antarctic

• Exploring the bottom of the ocean

After The Endurance sank on an Antarctic voyage, how did Shackleton's second-in-command keep up the spirits of the stranded crew?

• He rescued a barrel of rum, and organised drunken sing-songs

• He salvaged a banjo and organised small concerts

• He found a trunk of ladies' clothes, and amused them by dressing up in them

What is the name of the lifeboat - now on display at Dulwich College London - Ernest Shackleton used to rescue his crew on his third Antarctic voyage?

• The James Caird

• The Michael Jenkins

• The Charles Ward-Prowse

Wangari Maathai is internationally recognised for...

• ...fighting for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation

• ...becoming the first female leader of an African country

• ....providing an education for orphaned children