Royal College General Knowledge Quiz Team

MIND PROBE 2020 : On-Screen, The First-Ever Online Global Team Quiz Competition in Sri Lanka,
Organized by the Quiz Club Of Ananda College, Sri Lanka.

Congratulations to the;

Champions - Royal College, Colombo 07

1st Runners Up - Bandaranayake College, Gampaha

2nd Runners Up - D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo

Japura Masters Open Quiz 2017

3rd Place - Royal College General Knowledge Quiz Team

( Ammaar Ghouse l Senan Dahamdith Kannangara​ l Charanga Gamage l Suveen Ellawala l Rehan Hansaja)

Inter School Quiz Competition 2017 organized by Siridhamma College Quiz Club,

2nd Place : Royal College A Team
3rd Place : Royal College B Team

Our heartiest congratulations go to Charanga, Suveen, Ammaar, Rehan, and Anuja on winning the Pentathlon Quiz 2016 organized by Sirasa TV. We would also like to congratulate the Quiz Teams of Mahinda College Galle, Mahamaya Girls' School Kandy and Musaeus College Colombo on being selected to the Grand Finale.
Royal College General Knowledge Club also wishes to thank the Principal and the Academic Staff, the Teachers in Charge of the Club, the past and present members of the General Knowledge Club, Royal College Perfects Council 2016/2017 and all the Royalists for making this achievement a success and finally to Sirasa TV for a very well organized competition.

Sunday 22nd I 6PM onwards I Sirasa TV

Best of luck to our own Royal College General Knowledge Club members who will be representing Royal @ Sirasa Pentathlon Grand Finale

Royal College Team A and Team B - Champions and Runnersup respectively @ NU Jayawardene Memorial Quiz Competition 2016 organized by St. Aloysius' College, Galle.

The highest known price ever paid for a work of art - When Will You Marry?

When Will You Marry? is an oil painting from 1892 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. On loan to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland for nearly a half-century, it was sold privately by the family of Rudolf Staechelin to Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, in February 2015 for close to US $300 million (£197 million), the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The painting was on exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, until 28 June 2015.

The Triple Frontier - Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil

The Triple Frontier is a tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge. Near the confluence are the cities of Ciudad del Este (Paraguay); Puerto Iguazú (Argentina) and Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil). This area is near Iguazú Falls and the Itaipú hydroelectric plant.

Play True - motto of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. The agency's key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities, and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code, whose provisions are enforced by the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport.

Headquarters - Montreal, Canada

Trischa Zorn - the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games with 55 medals

Trischa Zorn (born June 1, 1964 in Orange, California) is a United States swimmer. Blind from birth, she competes in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12 and SM12 disability categories). She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze), and was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2012. She took the Paralympic Oath for athletes at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.

Largest stadium in Europe by capacity - Camp Nou

Camp Nou is a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It has been the home of FC Barcelona since its completion in 1957.

Jonny Bairstow sets records for the most Test runs scored in a calendar year by a wicketkeeper and for the most Test dismissals effected in a single year.

Most dismissals in a calendar year:
🏏 68 Jonny Bairstow 2016
🏏 67 Ian Healy 1993
🏏 67 Mark Boucher 1998
🏏 66 Adam Gilchrist 2004

Melania Trump born in now Slovenia is set to join Louisa Adams (wife of former US President John Quincy Adams) as only US First Ladies to be born in a foreign country.

Donald John Trump would become the first United States President without prior government or military experience, and the first without prior political experience since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) will be the oldest person to ever become a first-term president of the United States, at the age of 70.

With the participation of striking 45 schools, the Royal College General Knowledge Club for the 26th consecutive year has been able to successfully add yet another chapter to the longest running quiz competition in Sri Lanka, the Blue & Gold Quiz for the Blue & Gold Champions' Shield on the 21st of October 2016.

The ultimate battle to crown the wits of the wise ended in style as Ananda College,Colombo emerged Champions while Richmond College,Galle and Mahinda College,Galle trailed behind as Runners Up and 2nd Runners Up respectively.

The Royal College General Knowledge Club would like to thank the Principal Mr. B.A. Abeyrathna, Senior Deputy Principals, and the Senior Games Masters as well as the College administration staff.
A special thanking goes out to the Teachers in Charge, the Prefects' Council, the Royal College Computer Society, Media Unit ,the quiz masters, the panel of judges, the past and present members of the club and the participants from the invited schools , all who made this event even more beautiful. And as always our gratitude goes out to our sponsors Achievers,NTB-American Express, SAITM and well wishers including Mr.Tharindu Randeny for the invaluable support extended.

Join us next year at the 27th Blue and Gold Quiz for the Blue and Gold Champions' Shield.

Final top 25 standings...

1. Ananda College(39)
2. Richmond College(38)
3. Mahinda College(37)
4. Thurstan College(33)
Dharmaraja College(33)
6. Visakha Vidyalaya(29)
7. St.Joseph Vaz College(27)
Dharmasoka Vidyalaya(27)
9. Devi Balika Vidyalaya(26)
10. Maliyadeva College(25)
Elizabeth Moir IS(25)
12. Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya(23)
13. St.Aloysius’ College(22)
Siridhamma Vidyalaya(22)
STC Prep School(22)
Ranabima Rajakeeya Vidyalaya(22)
Musaeus College(22)
18. Kegalu Balika Vidyalaya(21)
19. Prince of Wales College(20)
Pushpadhana Balika Vidyalaya(20)
Lyceum IS,Nugegoda(20)
22. RI Nugegoda(19)
23. Mahinda Rajapakse Vidyalaya(19)
24. Anula Vidyalaya(18)
Sangamitta Balika Vidyalaya(18)

ZIM v SL, 1st Test Day 2: Sri Lanka loads up on runs; leaves hosts with a mountain to climb

Royal College General Knowledge Club emerged Champions of Mind Probe Inter School Quiz organized by Ananda College, Colombo this evening...
In fact with that Royal College has now won 10 out of the 13 editions of Mind Probe held so far...

Tequila, a World Heritage Site in Mexico

Tequila is best known as being the birthplace of the drink that bears its name, “tequila,” which is made from the blue agave plant, native to this area.

The heart of the plant contains sugars and had been used by native peoples here to make a fermented drink. After the Spanish arrived, they took this fermented beverage and distilled it, producing the tequila known today. The popularity of the drink and the history behind it has made the town and the area surrounding it a World Heritage Site.

Meet the World's Most Expensive Pet Fish The Asian arowana is believed to bring good luck and prosperity due to its red color and coin-like scales.

US sprinter Tyson Gay's daughter, 15, shot dead in Kentucky

Only batsman to hit the first ball of a Test match for a six-

Chris Gayle against Sohag Gazi of Bangaldesh

Only player ever to win the Golden Boot award on a team eliminated from Football World Cup contention at the group stage- Oleg Salenko

Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko ( born 25 October 1969 in Leningrad, Russia) is a retired Russian footballer, who played as a striker. He scored a record five goals in a group stage match in the 1994 World Cup, helping him earn the Golden Boot as joint-top tournament goalscorer.

Salenko set a World Cup record by scoring five goals in one game, for Russia against Cameroon on 28 June 1994.

Salenko finished the 1994 World Cup with six goals (scoring his sixth goal from the penalty spot against Sweden), sharing the Golden Boot with Hristo Stoichkov, a remarkable feat since Russia was knocked out in the first round, and Stoichkov's Bulgaria played another four games in the tournament.

This mirrored Salenko's achievement in the 1989 U-20 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, where he was top scorer when he scored 6 goals in the tournament. He is the only player to win the Golden Boot at both the U-20 World Cup and FIFA World Cup.

BREAKING NEWS
The 2016 ‪Nobel Prize‬ in Literature is awarded to

Bob Dylan

“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

Age: 75
Born: May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Press release: goo.gl/HUOKrG

Biobibliographical notes in English: goo.gl/6Aif1b

Biobibliographical notes

Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in the city of Hibbing. As a teenager he played in various bands and with time his interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues. One of his idols was the folk singer Woody Guthrie. He was also influenced by the early authors of the Beat Generation, as well as by modernist poets.

Dylan moved to New York in 1961 and began to perform in clubs and cafés in Greenwich Village. He met the record producer John Hammond with whom he signed a contract for his debut album, called Bob Dylan (1962). In the following years he recorded a number of albums which have had a tremendous impact on popular music: Bringing It All Back Home and High-way 61 Revisited in 1965, Blonde On Blonde in 1966 and Blood On The Tracks in 1975. His productivity continued in the following decades, resulting in masterpieces like Oh Mercy (1989), Time Out Of Mind (1997) and Modern Times (2006).

Dylan’s tours in 1965 and 1966 attracted a lot of attention. For a period he was accompa-nied by film maker D. A. Pennebaker, who documented life around the stage in what would come to be the movie Dont Look Back (1967). Dylan has recorded a large number of albums revolving around topics like the social conditions of man, religion, politics and love. The lyrics have continuously been published in new editions, under the title Lyrics. As an artist, he is strikingly versatile; he has been active as painter, actor and scriptwriter.

Besides his large production of albums, Dylan has published experimental work like Taran-tula (1971) and the collection Writings and Drawings (1973). He has written the autobiog-raphy Chronicles (2004), which depicts memories from the early years in New York and which provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture. Since the late 1980s, Bob Dylan has toured persistently, an undertaking called the “Never-Ending Tour”. Dylan has the status of an icon. His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a steady stream of secondary literature.

Family with the most Nobel laureates- The Curie family

The Curie family is a French family with a number of illustrious scientists. Several members were awarded the Nobel Prize, including physics, chemistry, or the Nobel Peace Prize. Pierre and Marie Curie, and their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, are the most prominent members.