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It's Academic (Australian Game Show)
''It's Academic'' is an Australian children's game show which is based on the long-running American version of ''It's Academic'', and pits students from different schools against each other in a test of knowledge covering a number of diverse subjects including English, mathematics, science, geography, sport, music and popular culture. History The show originally aired on Network Ten from 1968 and 1969 being hosted by John Bailey and then on the Seven Network from 1970 to 1978. In the years 2001 to 2004, Seven Perth revived the show, where it was broadcast locally, leading to a national relaunch on 17 October 2005. The last version on 7TWO featured schoolchildren in Grade 6, aged around 11 to 12 years old. The early incarnation of ''It's Academic'' was the basis for a series of sketches from '' The Late Show'' in which Santo Cilauro, Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner, who all claimed to have gone to the same school, competed on the program with incredible but humorous incompetenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Harwood (television Host)
Andrew Harwood (7 September 1945 – 6 February 2008) was an Australian quiz show host, announcer and actor. He had a career that spanned over 40 years in the Australian entertainment industry. Career Harwood was the son of Ena Harwood, a panellist on ''Beauty and the Beast'', an Australian talk show. His career began at a radio station in Warwick, Queensland. Harwood moved to Sydney after a job offer from radio station 2KY. He next worked as a voice announcer on the Seven Network). Through his work at Channel Seven, Harwood was chosen as the television presenter of ''It's Academic'', which he hosted from 1971 until 1979. He then became the compere of the Australian version of the ''Jeopardy!'' game show. Harwood's other quiz shows included '' Class of 82'' and '' Class of 83''. Harwood also regularly appeared as a supporting actor in the '' Paul Hogan Show''. Additionally, he also hosted several Miss New South Wales beauty pageants during the 1970s and 1980s. Harwood went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Szubanski
Magdalene Mary Therese Szubanski ( ; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian comedy actress, author, singer and LGBT rights advocate. She performed in ''Fast Forward'', '' Kath & Kim'' as Sharon Strzelecki and in the films ''Babe'' (1995) and '' Babe: Pig in the City'' (1998), ''Happy Feet'' (2006) and ''Happy Feet Two'' (2011). In 2003 and 2004 surveys, she polled as the most recognised and well-liked Australian television personality. Szubanski has spoken openly about her struggles with intergenerational trauma, anxiety and suicidal ideation in her teens. She became an activist for LGBT rights and, in 2017, promoted same-sex marriage in Australia. In 2015, Szubanski released her memoir, ''Reckoning''. Early life and education Szubanski was born on 12 April 1961, in Liverpool, England. Her mother Margaret (née McCarthy) is Scottish-Irish and came from a poor family. Her father, Zbigniew Szubanski, came from a well-off Polish family and was an assassin in a counter-intellig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverley College
, motto_translation = Virtue alone ennobles , location = 131 Birrell Street , city = Waverley, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent early learning, primary and secondary school , religion = Catholicism , denomination = Congregation of Christian Brothers , trust = Edmund Rice Education Australia , established = , chairman = Mark Davies , chaplain = Bernie Thomas ofm , years = Early learning; and Year 5–Year 12 , gender = Boys , pupils = , enrolment_as_of = 2016 , houses = , colours = Royal blue and gold , affiliation = Combined Associated Schools , alumni = Old Boys , principal = Graham Leddie , principal_label = Head of College Waverley College is a dual-campus independent Catholic early learning, primary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield
, motto_translation = Mary Leads Us , location = Fairfield, south-western Sydney, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Sydney , pushpin_image = , pushpin_mapsize = 240 , pushpin_map_alt = , pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan Sydney , pushpin_label = , pushpin_label_position = top , module = , type = Independent comprehensive single-sex secondary day school , denomination = Roman Catholic , oversight = Sydney Catholic Schools, Archdiocese of Sydney, Diocese of Parramatta , religious_affiliation = Patrician Brothers , gender = Boys , established = , principal = Peter Wade , enrolment = , enrolment_as_of = 2007 , grades = 7– 12 , grades_label = Years , colours = Royal blue and sky blue , slogan = , website = , num_employ = ~73 Patrician Brothers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatswood Public School
Chatswood Public School is a primary and Public school (government funded), public school that was founded in 1883, located in the suburb of Chatswood, New South Wales, Chatswood in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This school provides a playground which has been changed throughout the years and four buildings. Sport Chatswood Public School is involved in many Sporting Activities, and is involved it is involved in one PSSA competition, Kuringgai, Ku-Ring-Gai district competition. In 2007, the Chatswood Public School Senior A's Cricket and Soccer Team came first in the Ku-Ring-Gai cricket and soccer competitions. The Summer sports consists of Modball (Tee-ball), Cricket and Oztag and the Winter sports consist of Netball, Australian rules football and Soccer. The School has annual track and field athletics, Athletics, Swimming (sport), Swimming and Cross country running, Cross Country Carnivals, in which students are chosen to represent the school in higher grades. The four spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenshot
screenshot (also known as screen capture or screen grab) is a digital image that shows the contents of a computer display. A screenshot is created by the operating system or software running on the device powering the display. Additionally, screenshots can be captured by an external camera, using photography to capture contents on the screen. Screenshot techniques Digital techniques The first screenshots were created with the first interactive computers around 1960. Through the 1980s, computer operating systems did not universally have built-in functionality for capturing screenshots. Sometimes text-only screens could be dumped to a text file, but the result would only capture the content of the screen, not the appearance, nor were graphics screens preservable this way. Some systems had a BSAVE command that could be used to capture the area of memory where screen data was stored, but this required access to a BASIC prompt. Systems with composite video output could be co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epping, New South Wales
Epping is a suburb of Sydney, in the Australian state of New South Wales, 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Parramatta. Epping is located in the Northern Sydney region, which is sometimes simply referred to as the “North-West” or North Shore. The suburb is the most north-eastern area of the City of Parramatta. North Epping is a separate suburb to the north and under a different council, Hornsby Shire. History The Wallumettagal Aboriginal tribe lived in the area between the Lane Cove River and Parramatta River. In 1792, Governor Arthur Phillip began the granting of parcels of lands to marines, and the area was referred to on Phillip's maps as the Field of Mars, Mars being the Roman god of war. It contained the area of what is now Epping, along with the surrounding suburbs of Ryde and Marsfield. Epping railway station was opened on 17 September 1886, originally named "Field of Mars", and quickly re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers of the Schools, commonly known as simply the Marist Brothers, is an international community of Catholic religious institute of brothers. In 1817, St. Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist priest from France, founded the Marist Brothers with the goal of educating young people, especially those most neglected. While most of the brothers minister in school settings, others work with young people in parishes, religious retreats and spiritual accompaniment, at-risk youth settings, young adult ministry and overseas missions. History St. Marcellin Champagnat decided to start an institute of consecrated brothers in the Marist tradition, building schools for the underprivileged where they might learn to become "Good Christians and Good people". The decision was inspired by an event, when as a parish priest he was called to administer the last rites to a dying boy named Jean Baptiste Montagne. Trying to lead the boy through his last moments in prayer, Marcellin was struck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parker Pen Company
The Parker Pen Company is a French manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes, France. History George Safford Parker, the founder, had previously been a sales agent for the John Holland Gold Pen Company. He received his first fountain pen related patent in 1889. In 1894 Parker received a patent on his "Lucky Curve" fountain pen feed, which was claimed to draw excess ink back into the pen barrel when the pen was not in use. The company's first successful pen, released in 1899, was the Parker Jointless. The Lucky Curve feed was used in various forms until 1928. From the 1920s to the 1960s, before the development of the ballpoint pen, Parker was either number one or number two in worldwide writing instrument sales. In 1931, Parker created Quink (quick drying ink), which eliminated the need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheaffer
Sheaffer Pen Corporation () is an American manufacturing company of writing instruments, particularly luxury fountain pens. The company was founded by Walter A. Sheaffer in Fort Madison, Iowa, and incorporated in 1913 to exploit his invention of a lever-filling fountain pen. The brand was sold by French company Bic to A. T. Cross Company in August, 2014. In August, 2022 the brand was sold to and is currently owned bWilliam Penn Private Limited a multi-brand retailer and distributor of writing instruments and accessories. History In 1912, Walter A. Sheaffer took his idea of a pen filling apparatus that utilized a lever system and, with his life savings, founded the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company in Fort Madison, Iowa. The company was established in the back room of Mr. Sheaffer's jewelry store with seven employees, and was incorporated a year later, in 1913. By the 1930s, Sheaffer fountain pens were being advertised as the pen that "fills instantly from any ink-well, with one touc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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