{"id":73,"date":"2021-12-12T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-12-12T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:30:20","slug":"beaconites-mind-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/beaconites-mind-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaconites&#8217; Mind Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: var(--global--spacing-horizontal);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0012.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><img 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https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0015-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0015.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-76 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: var(--global--spacing-horizontal);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211209-WA0016.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78 size-medium\" style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211212-WA0040-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211212-WA0040-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211212-WA0040-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211212-WA0040-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/134\/2021\/12\/IMG-20211212-WA0040.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday 9th December, Beaconhouse, Bahria Enclave Campus organized an interactive history and geograph<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">y general knowledge quiz for its middle school students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students from grade 6, 7 and 8 were selected as participants after careful screening and were divided into their four houses: falcons, kestrels, eagles and hawks. The quiz was divided into two portions &#8212; history and geography wh<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">ich included four<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\"> rounds each. Each group had a chance to work as a team and answer questions individually to showcase<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\"> th<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">eir strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The quiz was an excelle<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background);color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base)\">nt opportunity for students to practice teamwork and to brush up on their knowledge related to geography and history. All the rounds (multiple cho<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">ice questions, pictorial, buzzer and rapid fire) presented various questions which were based on class dis<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">cussions and some which needed to be studied more broadly by the student. Th<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary);font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);background-color: var(--global--color-background)\">ese topics included landscapes, World War 1, ancient civilizations, oceans and seas, climate change and\u00a0 the Mughal Empire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the end of both quizzes, there was a rapid fire round that the students participated in. The level of competition was high all around and the audience which comprised of parents and other middle school students were engaged the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/beaconites-mind-quest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beaconites&#8217; Mind Quest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/358\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}