General Knowledge

General Knowledge
Apr 10, 2002, 12:34pm

Secondary students enjoy testing their memory for fun without the pressure of earning a grade.

More than one hundred secondary students signed up on a voluntary basis to test their general knowledge. When memory serves well your score is high, then a certificate is awarded.

Students gave up break time to be contestants and spectators for the Jeopardy style games.

Ain Aar middle school and upper elementary students also like to test their general knowledge and are even willing to give up their break time to do it. Some teachers and administrators collaborated during their spare time to create an elimination test and a series of questions for a quiz-show style competition with Director Antoin Boulad acting as host/moderator.
Top scoring students from the elimination round in English and French are separated into two teams of four who then compete by choosing questions of different point value based on the degree of difficulty. There are four question categories; history and geography, nature, art and sports, and science and inventions with some questions on material not covered in the curriculum. The team able to accumulate the most points answering questions during a timed scoring wins. Strategy and memory are both important at a time like this.

Upper elementary students work in teams on the general knowledge challenge at Ain Aar.