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Hymers College Quiz 2024

Take the fun quiz that we have challenged the current students to complete for Founder's and Benefactors' Day

How well do you know the history of Hymers College? (Answers are at the bottom of the article!)

Quiz Questions:

1.  Hymers College opened in which year?

2.  What did John Hymers’ study at university?

3.  Who was Robert Hymers?

4.  What former site was Hymers College built on?

     A) Train Station     B) Botanic Gardens     C) Cemetery

5.  Who was Edward Vernon Bolton?

6.  Hymers College originally was set up to have students board at the school?

     True     or     False

7.  Who was the first Headmaster of Hymers College?

8.  What was wrong with the will of John Hymers?

9.  Which headmaster introduced girls to Hymers College in 1989, making the school co-educational?

10. Who was Hilary Atkinson?

Where would you find the following?

Where can you find this portrait of John Hymers?

Where can you find the Foundation Stone?

Which rooms in the Main Hall did this science lesson take place in the early 1900s?

Which came first?

Put the buildings in order of which was built first:

  • Modern Languages Block
  • Judi Dench Theatre
  • LRC
  • Sports Hall
  • Main Hall
  • Design and Technology Block
  • Memorial Hall

Quiz Answers:

  1. 1893
  2. Mathematics
  3. Younger brother of John Hymers, who inherited his money
  4. B) Botanic Gardens
  5. First enrolled student
  6. True
  7. Mr Charles Gore
  8. It should have said ‘found or endow’, rather than 'found and endow'
  9. Mr Bass
  10. First girl to attend Hymers College in 1971

Where would you find the following?

Where can you find this portrait of John Hymers?  Main Hall - left of B7

Where can you find the Foundation Stone?  Front left corner of main school building, facing the school fields

Which rooms in the Main Hall did this science lesson take place in the early 1900s?  B5 and B6

Which came first?

  1. 1893 - Main Hall
  2. 1923 - Memorial Hall
  3. 1932 - Modern Languages Block (formerly the Junior School)
  4. 1981 - Sports Hall
  5. 1988 - Design and Technology Block
  6. 1995 - Judi Dench Theatre
  7. 2016 - LRC

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