Friday Night Google Night
(75 minutes) Start 19:30-20:45
There would be approximately 80 teenagers so there would be 8 groups of 10.
The groups will be split in the beginning and they will be given a specific colour. I.E- purple, yellow, blue, green, red, orange, white and black.
The groups will spend 5 minutes deciding what the group’s name will be – the groups have to have a name that includes the groups colour. E.g. Black Panthers, Yellow Sunflowers etc.
1. General Knowledge Questions (this will be approximately 20 minutes)
8 Seats will be placed in front facing the overhead projector – this is to avoid any eye contact with the group that might give the answers to the participants)
In this game the group sends a Representative after every 2 questions. The participants have to raise their hand if they know the answer, each correct answer is a point to the group. After 2 tries the next person comes up and they also have two tries, and so forth.
Questions
- What name is given to a Female Swan?Pen
- How many toes does a dog have?18
- Which is the world’s second largest French-speaking city? Montreal, Canada
- In which year was Margaret Thatcher first elected Prime Minister?1979
- Which 1851 novel was first published in Britain under the title The Whale?Moby Dick
- What angle is formed by the hands of a clock at 4-o clock?120 Degrees
- What was the first country to win the World Cup twice?Italy
- How many legs do butterflies have? 6
- Which British Prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?Sir Winston Churchill
- How is the number 5 written in Roman numerals?V
- In Bingo, what number is referred to as “Doctors Orders”?9
- What is a baby seal called? A pup
- How many keys are on a standard piano?88
- What colour do you get when you mix red and white?Pink
- What is Pakistan’s currency?Rupee
- In Darts, how much is the outer Bull worth?25
- What is the square root of 16?4
- Elsa Lanchester played the role in which 1935 horror film?Bride of Frankenstein
- What is the capital of the Bahamas? Nassau
- How many dots are there in total on a pair of dice? 42
Famous Quotes (25 minutes)
In this game the groups have to sit together and answer the question as a group. (10 heads are better than one for this game). The groups have to decide and answer which person said which quote. Each team will be presented with a question viewed on the overhead projector. The question will have 3 options of answers below it.
Questions
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”
A= Robert Mogabe
B= Zig Ziglar
C= Albert Eistein
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”
A=Sir Winston Churchill
B= Walt Disney
C= Nelson Mandela
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you”
A= Nelson Mandela
B= Leon Trotsky
C= Walt Disney
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
A= Plato
B= Adam Habbib
C= Margaret Thatcher
“Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake”
A= Walt Disney
B= Nelson Mandela
C= Napoleon Bonaparte
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for great ordeal of meeting me is another matter”
A= Sir Winston Churchill
B= Albert Einstein
C= Robert Mogabe
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung”
A= Voltaire
B= Beyonce
C= Chris Rock
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing- that’s why we recommend it daily”
A= Jacob Zuma
B= Voltaire
C= Zig Ziglar
“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens”
A= Woody Allen
B= Trevor Noah
C= Voltaire
“You must be the change you want to see in the world”
A= Albert Einstein
B= Voltaire
C= Mahatma Ghandi
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is”
A= Oscar Wilde
B= Beyonce
C= Voltaire
“If you speak to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head but if you speak to him in his language it goes to his heart”
A= Voltaire
B= Nelson Mandela
C= Sir Winston Churchill
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when creating them”
A= Albert Einstein
B= Mother Teresa
C= Shakira
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”
A= Nelson Mandela
B= Chris Brown
C= Sir Winston Churchill
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
A= Glee
B= Walt Disney
C= Albert Einstein
“Listen with your heart, you will understand”
A= The Kids next door
B= Nelson Mandela
C= Pocahontas
(The bolded words are the answers)
The Google Map Game (Approximately 25 minutes)
Each group is given a coloured pin (matching their group colour). The groups will be asked to locate a specific location and the group would have to nominate one person each time to place the pin on the location they think is correct. All the groups are open to answer at once meaning there would be 8 pins on the board/sheet every time a question is asked.
Questions
- Where does Ofentse live?
- Where is Brescia House School?
- Where is the Johannesburg Theatre?
- Where is Redhill High School?
- Where is the nearest Fournos Bakery?
- Where is the Neighbourgoods Market?
- Where is Liquid Chef?
- Where is Athol Square?
- Where does Daniella Obisi go to school?
- Where is Halfway House School?
- Where is Nelson Mandela Square?
- Where is His People Church, our branch?
- Where is Cresta?
- Where is Bright Water Commons?
- Where is St Vincent School for the Deaf?
- Where is the nearest Chinese Restaurant?
- Where is Albert’s Farm Dam?
- Where is the nearest Burger King?
- Where is the nearest Fruit and Veg city?
- Where is Zoolake?
The group with the most points gets chocolate and everybody else gets a fizzer.
End of the Night
Things we will need:
8 chairs
The map
If possible 8 different colours of ribbon.