Schools That Never Really Were, District 2 Quiz

Answer: Star Trek

Starfleet Academy is a department within Starfleet for the training of officers. Its headquarters is located at the Presidio of San Francisco, its campus across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. The basic programme was four years; a few courses lasted as long as eight. The motto of the academy is "Ex Astris, Scientia" which appears on its insignia.

Answer: Bayside High School

Bayside High was located in a fictional part of Los Angeles called "The Palisades." The only characters that moved from Indiana to California were Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Samuel "Screech" Powers (Dustin Diamond), Lisa Marie Turtle (Lark Voorhies) and Mr. Richard Belding (Dennis Haskins), the principal.

Answer: St. Trinian's

The schoolmistresses at Saint Trinian's are sadistic and incompetent, the girls smoke, drink, gamble and are sexually precocious, and the school is in constant jeopardy of being discredited by the Ministry of Schools. The five St. Trinian's novels were made into six motion pictures. British actor Alastair Sim played the headmistress, Miss Millicent Fritton, in drag. The school's motto might be "In flagrante delicto" (Caught in the act) or perhaps "Semper debeatis percutis ictu primo" (Always get your blow in first).

Answer: Degrassi Junior High School

The Degrassi franchise embraces five television programmes about a group of teenagers who lived on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario. The five main series are "The Kids of Degrassi Street" (1979-1986), "Degrassi Junior High" (1987-1989), "Degrassi High" (1989-1991), "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2001-2015) and "Degrassi: Next Class" (beginning in 2016).

The series were produced in Canada and initially aired on CBC but gained an international audience.

Answer: Miskatonic University

Miskatonic University first appears in Lovecraft's story "Herbert West: Reanimator" which was made (loosely) into a sub-par horror movie in 1985. It is located in the town of Arkham in Essex County, Massachusetts. The university was named for the Miskatonic River which flows by it. In the Mythos, it is comparable to Harvard University in academic distinction and cachet.

Answer: Ivy College

Don Quinn, who created "Fibber McGee and Molly," created "The Halls of Ivy" for both NBC radio (1950-1952) and CBS TV (1954-1955). Ronald Coleman plays William Todhunter Hall, the president of Ivy College, and Benita Hume, his wife in real life, plays Victoria, a former musical-comedy performer in England. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee, the authors of the play "Inherit the Wind," were among the writers.

Answer: The Cosby Show/A Different World

On "The Cosby Show" Hillman College is identified as the black American college attended by both Cliff and Claire Huxtable. In a Season 3 (1987) episode entitled "Hillman," they visit their alma mater which sets up the spin-off of "A Different World." Their eldest daughter Denise (Lisa Bonet) was then attending Hillman. Her show, set at Hillman, premiered the next season (1987-1993).

Answer: Fresh Meat

"Fresh Meat" was broadcast 2011-2016. In some ways parallel to the American television comedy series "Friends," it follows the lives of six university students who share off-campus housing because they were late in applying for on-campus student housing.

They are all first-year students ("freshers") save one. Scenes of the fictional Manchester Medlock University were shot mainly on the campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2013, the programme won the Monte-Carlo Television Festival award for the Best European Comedy TV Series.

Answer: Greyfriars School

The stories about Greyfriars School appeared in "The Magnet" Magazine from 1908 to 1940, in a comic strip (1939-1958) (1963-1976), in numerous books, and as a BBC television programme (1951-1961). Focused especially on the Fourth Form ("the Remove"), the stories described the adventures of British boys being educated in the British manner and their resistance to civilisation.

Answer: Adams College

Fictional Adams College had a fantastic computer-science department which attracted many socially-inept but very bright undergraduates. The men of Alpha Beta (and their sister sorority Pi Delta Pi) vex and annoy the bright lads, who form a chapter of Lambda Lambda Lambda (a predominantly black fraternity) out of self-protection. The scene where the Tri-Lambs douse the Alpha Betas' jock straps with "Liquid Heat" is memorable. There is no Adams College; exteriors were shot at the University of Arizona in Tucson.