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SECOND-LEVEL STUDENTS across the country today received their Leaving Certificate results under the new Calculated Grades system and will on Friday receive their CAO offers for third-level institutes across the country.
Some say your school days, and others say your college days, are some of the best and most memorable years of your life – grounded in stories you’ll one day tell the grandkids.
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But aside from those five or six years in secondary school, or those three to four years in college, there are other institutions that have become much talked about settings for stories on the screen, in the books, and in the headlines.
So now’s your chance to test your knowledge on some of the most iconic and famous schools and colleges.
Hogwarts, arguably the most famous fictional school in the world, was set in what part of the UK?
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Highlands of Scotland
Valleys of Wales
Yorkshire Dales
Shetland Islands
It's 24 years this year since Matilda was first released but what was the name of the school she attended?
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Punchem Hall Elementary School
Crunchem Hall Elementary School
Slaughter Hall Elementary School
Chokey Hall Elementary School
Mean Girls remains an iconic movie with our own Leo Varadkar quoting from it as Taoiseach earlier this year. But what was the name of the high school the mean girls attended?
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East Shore High School
West Shore High School
North Shore High School
South Shore High School
Which of these schools featured in comedy sketch show Little Britain?
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Royal Grammar School
Hard Knocks Grammar School
The Little Grammar School
Kelsey Grammar School
At what high school was Grease set?
Ryder High
Richmond High
Rydell High
Rochdale High
Can you name the school that Erin and co attend in Derry Girls?
Our Lady's Immaculate Girls' School
St Mary's Catholic Girls' School
Holy Trinity Girls' School
The Mary Magdalene School for Girls
In what Dublin school were scenes from Sally Rooney's Normal People filmed?
Belvedere College, Dublin 1
Blackrock College, Blackrock
Hartstown Community School, Clonsilla
Tyrellstown Educate Together, Dublin 15
Scenes from I.T. starring Pierce Brosnan were shot on location at which Irish university?
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin City University
University College Dublin
University College Cork
Back in 2003, Jack Black landed on our screens in School of Rock where he played a substitute teacher at what school?
Horace White Prep School
Horace Green Prep School
Horace Black Prep School
Horace Blue Prep School
And finally, it had songs that would linger in your mind for days after watching and it was a major hit for Disney but in what school was High School Musical set?
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Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone! Great to see so many purer than pure commenters here!!
Always remember… When you point a finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing at yourself!!!
I’m always amazed at the amount of men, women and children that have been slaughtered in the name of religion. I’d wonder is there any such thing as a God no matter what name you call him.
@Jp Cleary: let’s take as a hypothèse that religions are litterature taken seriously. Observations reveal that nature is fairly nasty and has many really horrible ways of getting rid of us.
Whether god, the universe, or life itself is good or bad ; is actually a matter of perspective.
Observations also reveal that knowledge should not be shared with pigs. As we have always seen, it ends badly.
The kingdom is within. If one person wakes up and changes, then the universe itself changes !
@Jp Cleary: some people use religion as a tool for bad , some as a tool for good, regardless, people have been killing since the beginning of time, thou shall not kill seems like a very good starting point from my perspective
@offside again: the only easy day was yesterday what do you think tomorrow will bring, when Donald trump says in God we Trust, and God saved him from the assassin, so he would be president and thus he done, I think some evil force saved him because he is not sane.
@Phillip Smyth: some say that man invented the devil because we can’t accept that god created everything both good and evil.
Recognising this demands that we accept personnal responsability for our own behaviour.
And the choices we make.
There are so many possible reasons and explanations for our existence that I’ve lost track of them. From god to aliens, neither of which exclude evolution ; anything is possible !
Hunger Games: Forty-one professional perpetrators, who sexually abused the children with whom they worked, were questioned about the nature of their offending. Some of their demographic information was compared with a sample of non-work-based child abusers to identify any significant differences between the two groups.It was found that the professional perpetrators were more likely to be sexually interested in same-sex children. Of the study group,92.5% said that they were aware of their sexual arousal to children by 21 years old and a further 67.5% said that they had already committed a contact sexual offence against a child by age 21.Perhaps the most interesting findings related to the stated motivation of the professional perpetrators in obtaining their employment working with children.
@thomas molloy: A comparative study of demographic data relating to intra- and extra-familial child sexual abusers and professional perpetrators
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@Buster Lawless: jaysus Buster, haven’t heard from you in a while. There have been other lads spouting the same shit while you have been away. Everything ok cutie ?
Are we just supposed to take God’s word about Satan? The whole story just seems a bit one sided. Like we know the bloke can be biased because he will literally cast you out for eternity if you don’t go along with him. Calling someone a snake might just be the first ever ad hominum attack and everything after that is in the same fallacious vain maybe. I hope the Pope has a nice sleep in his own bed now.
@Darth O’Leary: well there is definitely good and evil, the world is experiencing that now, it’s hard to know which side of the fence to be on, some say they are fighting for their land back and that’s a moral right, both sides commit atrocities for their evil gain, other fanatics do it for God and he’s on their side.Both sides of gods time and memorial land wars are based on religion and died with god on their side.
@Darth O’Leary: What IF Satan IS the Good Guy? Maybe the religious have it all wrong and have pulled off the greatest scam in the history of the world?
Amazing what modern medicine can do when you have a team of doctors treating one man. That been said, I do wish Pope Franco a speady recovery and I hope he’s enjoying those sponge baths!
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