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Week 1
Q: What colour do you get when you combine an equal amount of red paint with an equal amount of yellow paint?
A: B – Orange
Week 2
Q: What planet is closest to the sun?
A: A – Mercury
Week 3
Q: The decimal equivalent of ¾ is?
A: A – 0.75
Week 4
Q: What is the longest river in the world?
A: A – The Nile
Week 5
Q: How much of Australia is classified as desert?
A: D – 35%
Week 6
Q: Which country has the second largest population in the world?
A: C – India
Week 7
Q: Which mammal is the swiftest runner over short distances?
A: C – A cheetah
Week 8
Q: The ears of the African elephant can be over 1 m wide. Apart from improving the elephant’s hearing, what other purpose do they serve?
A: A – They cool the elephant’s blood
Week 9
Q: Which animal, found throughout Africa, Asia, parts of Europe and South America, is covered with protective quills?
A: A – The porcupine
Week 10
Q: Which flightless bird lives on the open plains of Africa and can lay up to eight 1.1 kg eggs?
A: A – An ostrich
Week 11
Q: In winter, animals such as bears and squirrels slow down their bodies to a permanent state of drowsiness. What is this condition called?
A: B – Hibernation
Week 12
Q: Which bird has eyesight 100 times more acute than that of a human being and has the ability to turn its head through 270 degrees?
A: C – An owl
Week 13
Q: What is the only type of bird that can fly backwards?
A: D – Hummingbird
Week 14
Q: What is the most common gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
A: B – Nitrogen
Week 15
Q: Sodium chloride is commonly known as?
A: B – Common salt
Week 16
Q: The first human being to land on the moon was?
A: B – Neil Armstrong
Week 17
Q: The instrument that records the intensity of earthquakes is?
A: C – A Seismograph
Week 18
Q: The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are?
A: C – Geographic grids
Week 19
Q: The landmass of which of the following continents is the least?
A: D – Australia
Week 20
Q: The humidity of the air depends upon?
A: D – All of the above
Week 21
Q: The largest glaciers are?
A: C – Continental glaciers
Week 22
Q: The last letter of the Greek alphabet is?
A: D – Omega
Week 23
Q: Mount Kilimanjaro is situated in?
A: C – Tanzania
Week 24
Q: A ______ is worth a thousand words?
A: B – Picture
Week 25
Q: There are many paths to the top of the mountain but the ______ is always the same?
A: C – View
Week 26
Q: What is the main green vegetable in guacamole?
A: C – Avocado
Week 27
Q: Who defeated the Minotaur?
A: A – Theseus
Week 28
Q: Which country won the most gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games?
A: C – The USA
Week 29
Q: What is the capital of the Philippines?
A: C – Manila
Week 30
Q: What is a group of crows called?
A: C – A murder
Week 31
Q: Originally, how long was the Great Wall of China?
A: A – 6,000 km
Week 32
Q: Mount Everest is located in which country?
A: B – Nepal
Week 33
Q: For seeing objects at the surface of water from an underwater submarine, the instrument used is?
A: B – A periscope
Week 34
Q: How many red blood cells does bone marrow produce every second?
A: C – 10 million
Week 35
Q: In which year did Sir Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mount Everest?
A: B – 1953
Week 36
Q: In which of the following organs of the human body does maximum absorption of food take place?
A: C – The small intestine
Week 37
Q: A Joule is the unit of?
A: C – Energy
Week 38
Q: Of the following foods, which one is the best source of protein?
A: B – Fish
Week 39
Q: A Light Year is related to?
A: C – Distance
Week 40
Q: Penicillin is widely used as?
A: C – An antibiotic
Week 41
Q: The longest rail line of the world, the Trans‑Siberian line, is located in?
A: A – Russia
Week 42
Q: The normal threshold of hearing is around?
A: D – 25‑45 dB
Week 43
Q: When water changes from a liquid state to a gaseous state, this process is called?
A: C – Evaporation
Week 44
Q: What is the biggest bone in our body?
A: B – Femur
Week 45
Q: In which atmospheric layer do we live?
A: D – Troposphere
Week 46
Q: How many minutes does it take sunlight to reach Earth?
A: A – 8.5
Week 47
Q: What type of animal is a Samoyed?
A: B – Dog
Week 48
Q: What is a Rhino’s horn made of?
A: D – Hair
