1 Draw a straight lineacross this clock face sothat the numbers add upto the same total on eachside of the line.

2 What is the name of the building whereaeroplanes are kept?

3 What is the largest ocean in the world?

4 What is a fibula? a) a bone in the leg, b) a Roman cooking utensil, or c) a personwho tells lies?

5 Move one line to make this sum correct. III + II = VII

6 What does an ornithologist study?

7 What number comes next in this sequence? 1 3 6 10 15

8 Turn a LEMON into something sweeter. _ _ _ _ _

9 How old is Pete? Last year his age was asquare number and next year it will be a cubenumber.

10 In which city would you find the Statue ofLiberty?

11 What is the name given to the group ofanimals who carry their young in a pouch,such as the kangaroo?

12 What is the highest mountain in the BritishIsles?

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13 What is a marionette? a) miniature statuemade of porcelain, b) puppet worked withstrings, or c) toy soldier?

14 What does a geiger counter measure?

15 Which pest did the Pied Piper of Hamelin getrid of?

16 If you suffer from arachnophobia, what areyou afraid of?

17 Which European city is this an anagram of?MAD STREAM_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

18 How many days are there in a leap year ?

19 Put these numbersin the spaces sothat each row addsup to 100.16 18 20 24 26

20 What sort ofcreature is a skua?

21 When I put my gerbils 6 to a cage, there were3 gerbils left over. When I put them 9 to acage, there was 1 cage left over. How manygerbils have I got?

22 What part of a whale is known as flukes?

23 Can you divide this square into 5, so that thenumbers in each section add up to 20?

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24 A paediatrician is a doctor who looks after a) elderly people, b) your feet, or c) babies and children?

25 What is the name of the volcano whichdestroyed Pompeii, when it erupted in 79AD?

26 The dessert, peach Melba, was named after theopera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. True or false?

27 Which common flower has the Latin nameBellis Perennis?

28 Rearrange thenumbers in the boxesso that each line addsup to 15.

29 What is the next letterin this sequence? O T T F F S S E N __

30 Which American president was assassinatedin 1865?

31 Turn PEN RESTS into something you’d bepleased to get! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

32 Which is the odd one out?ORANGE APPLE LEMON GRAPEFRUIT

33 Which animal name can be added to thesethree endings to make a new word each time?______HER ______ION ______TLE

34 Six coins are on the table like this:

Move one coin tomake two rows withfour coins in each.

35 Where is your cranium? a) your head, b) your foot, or c) your chest?

36 Which two square numbers when multipliedequal thirty six?

37 What does a vulcanologist study?

38 What is special about Manx cats?

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39 How many pairs of legs does a crab have?

40 What is the coloured part of your eye called?

41 Two brothers were born on the same day, inthe same year, to the same parents, but theyare not twins. How can this be?

42 Which book by Dick King-Smith was theinspiration for the film ‘Babe’?

43 Emperor, macaroni and chinstrap are all typesof what?

44 Which two four-letter words will changeSAVE to BANK, changing one letter at a time?

45 A zedonk is a cross between a donkey and azebra. True or false?  

46 Put plus or minus signs in the spaces to makethe answer correct. 10 � 7 � 11 � 2 � 8 � 4 = 12

47 How might A CAMEL BUN come to yourrescue?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

48 How many bricks are needed to repair the wall?

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49 What do these letters stand for? R O Y G B I V

50 In a thunderstorm, do you hear the thunderbefore you see the lightning, or the other wayround?

51 Which three letter word can be added to allthese beginnings to make a new word eachtime? BL _ _ _ TR _ _ _ EXT _ _ _ FRI _ _ _ PRET _ _ _

52 What is the name for trees that lose theirleaves in the autumn?

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68 What do the letters SCUBA stand for, in theexpression scuba diving?

69 How many wheels does a unicycle have?

70 Which island looks as if it’s about to be kickedby the ‘toe’ of Italy?

71 How might THE SOAP CART be a disaster?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

72 How can you makefour equilateraltriangles, with onematch along eachside, using just sixmatchsticks?

73 In which European capital could you see thestatue of the Little Mermaid?

74 How many known planets are there orbitingthe Sun?

75 What is the highest score a player can get in agame of darts using three darts?

76 Put the numbers 2 to 10in the square, so thateach row, column anddiagonal adds up to 18.

77 How many bones arethere in a humanskeleton? a) 108, b) 206,or c)302?

78 If solar means to do with the Sun, which wordmeans to do with the Moon?

79 Which four-letter word can be added to thesefour endings to make four new words?______T  ______VE  ______CH  ______E

80 If the 12 cogwheel goesroundclockwise,which waywill the 8cog wheelturn?

53 XI + I = X How can you make this truewithout moving any of the lines?

54 What links Danny, James and Matilda?

55 What are thenumbers hidden bythe ink blots? Allthe digits, from 0 to9, have been used.

56 What was the invention which made theSwedish chemist, Alfred Nobel, famous, andrich enough to found the Nobel Prize awards?

57 Use your calculator to work out why 8 x 4417might be found in a farmyard.

58 A ‘smiley’ is a) a picture made up fromkeyboard characters, b) a character whowelcomes you to a website, or c) a messagethat comes up on your screen to give youinformation?

59 The male is called a cob and the female a pen.Which bird is this?

60 Which French painter had a house and gardenat Giverny?

61 What are brimstone, tortoiseshell and spottedfritillary types of? a) orchids, b) preciousstones, or c) butterflies?

62 To multiply 142857 by 3, you only have tomove one digit. Which one and where to?

63 What can be new, half, gibbous and full?

64 Where were the Olympic Games 2000 held?

65 How might THORN, SHOUT, SEAT andSTEW give you direction?

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _66 What is deoxyribonucleic acid more usually

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67 Find a word which will go in the space,SHEEP ________ BISCUIT, making two newwords. (e.g. STAR DUST STORM = STARDUST +DUSTSTORM)

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81 What is a primate? a) your best friend, b) oneof the order of animals that includes humans,apes and monkeys, or c) type of stove used byprehistoric people?

82 How many hours in a week?

83 What is the name of the chemical which givesleaves their green colour?

84 Which islands are the most northerly point ofthe British Isles?

85 What natural material can be described asigneous, metamorphic or sedimentary? a) rocks, b) metal, or c) wood?

86 How might a FAG FIRE reach the top of atree?

_ _ _ _ _ _ _87 What is a Coccinella 7-punctata?

88 What historic event happened on July 20th1969?

89 When did the first public libraries open inBritain? a) 1850, b) 1903, or c) 1948?

90 What is the hardest mineral in the world?

91 Where do the Sámi people live?

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92 Who experimented with a kite in athunderstorm to show that lightning wasstatic electricity in 1752?

93 Why might it be fun to swim with HOLDPINS?

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _94 In 1976 the first supersonic passenger plane,

designed by British and French engineers,began flying across the Atlantic. What was itcalled?

95 Which well known author used to testchocolates at the nearby Cadbury factorywhen he was a boy? a) Michael Morpurgo, b) Roald Dahl, or c) Terry Deary?

96 In 1796 Edward Jenner carried out the firstsuccessful vaccination against which disease?a) measles, b) polio, or c) smallpox?

97 What is the prime number nearest to 100?

98 What is the currency of India?

99 Which bird lays the biggest eggs? a) emperor penguin, b) bald eagle, or c) ostrich?

Which Ancient Greek mathematicianshowed that, for a right angle triangle, thesquare on the hypotenuse is equal to thesum of the squares on the other two sides?

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10 New York11 Marsupials12 Ben Nevis13 b) puppet worked with strings14 Radioactivity15 Rats16 Spiders17 Amsterdam18 36619 �20 Bird21 2722 Tail23 �24 c) babies and

children25 Vesuvius26 True27 Daisy28 �29 O T T F F S S E N T (One,

Two, Three, etc.)30 Abraham Lincoln31 Presents32 Apple (not a citrus

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head36 4 x 937 Volcanoes38 No tail39 5 pairs of legs (including one

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quadruplets, etc. 42 The Sheep Pig43 Penguin44 SANE SANK45 True46 10 + 7 – 11 + 2 + 8 – 4 = 1247 Ambulance48 2949 Red, orange, yellow, green,

blue, indigo, violet – thecolours of the rainbow

50 Lightning then thunder, so theother way round.

51 END52 Deciduous53 Look at it upside down. 54 Roald Dahl, they are all

characters mentioned in thetitles of his books.

55 2 6 9 +  5 1 4=  7 8 3

56 Dynamite57 Geese (35336 upside down)58 a) a picture made up from

keyboard characters59 Swan60 Monet61 c) butterflies62 42857163 Moon64 Sydney, Australia65 North, South, East and West66 DNA67 sheep DOG biscuit68 Self contained underwater

breathing apparatus69 One70 Sicily71 Catastrophe72 Make a pyramid73 Copenhagen

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