Quiz of the Week
1) Which is the largest number?
6.48, 6.84, 6.8, 6.6
2) What do we call animals that only come out at night?
3) Is 400 a square number?
Square number definition: product of a number multiplied by itself, e.g. 1, 4, 9, 16.
4) On 1-3 July 1863, the greatest battle of the American Civil War took place at …
5) Which word does not need a capital?
King, April, California, Renae
6) Is the word ‘river’ an example of a palindrome?
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers.
7) How many minutes are there in each half of an international soccer game?
8) How many square metres are there in one hectare?
9) Who sold the first ever car?
Karl Benz or Henry Ford?
10) Unjumble CREAD to make the name of a type of tree.
11) The statue of the ‘Little Mermaid’ in Copenhagen, Denmark, is dedicated to which Danish author of fairytales?
12) What is, or was a Sea Biscuit?
13) Which is the odd one out?
giant, gentle, gather, germs
14) The houses of the Irian Jaya’s Kombai and Korowai tribes can be built at an amaing height:
a) 15 metres above the ground
b) 30 metres above the ground
c) 45 metres above the ground
15) A superstar of early films was a little Englishman called Charlie?
16) Is acid rain far more radioactive, acidic or gaseous than normal rain?
17) Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg are all characters from which Louisa May Alcott novel?
18) An LP record, popular before CD’s, is a ……. playing record.
19) An optometrist is a specialist in which body part?
20) The Equator passes through Norway.
True or False?
12. Seabiscut
13) gentle
11)Hans Christian Anderson
9)the Germany inventor Karl Benz
13. Gather
12)germs
cedar
Kyle and Rory, please try question 12 again.
9) Karl Benz
Bradyn, please try question 13 again.
14) b
20) no
What do we do now that we are done?
14)a
11. Hans Christian Andersen
Sammy, please try question 14 again.
Jared, please try question 12 again.
16) no
12) It was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse
10)cedar
Jared, please try question 14 again.
Bradyn, please try question 16 again.
14) c
16) The I pad won’t let me write the correct answer
14. 30 metres
7. 60 mint
11)Hans Christian Andersen
14)30metres
14) 30meters
15 Charlie hass
Jake, please try question 7 again.