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There's two edutainment games I remember playing on school PCs back in the early 2000s (either 2000 or 2001) and I've found nothing about them since. Asking about them on the TOMT and TOMJ subreddits got me nowhere.
One was set in a castle and had an intro where the main character crosses a moat. I remember it for a particular minigame where you operate a catapult and have to launch cabbages at people hiding in barrels, following instructions like "90 degrees clockwise", "125 degrees anticlockwise", etc. If you successfully hit all 8 targets without fail, the victory message was "You cabbage head!"
The other was more like a loose collection of minigames and several different CD collections were released. I used to own one that I found in a supermarket bargain bin. The minigame I remember on this collection involved moving a pin to pop balloons. The background music was some kind of weirdly upbeat jazz song.