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Draw a straight line

across this clock face so
that the numbers add up
to the same total on each
side of the line.

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What is the name of the building where

aeroplanes are kept?
What is the largest ocean in the world?

What is a fibula? a) a bone in the leg,

b) a Roman cooking utensil, or c) a person
who tells lies? a b c

Turn a LEMON into something sweeter.

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If you suffer from arachnophobia, what are

you afraid of?

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Which European city is this an anagram of?

MAD STREAM

What does an ornithologist study?

What number comes next in this sequence?

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III + II = VII

What does a geiger counter measure?

Which pest did the Pied Piper of Hamelin get

rid of?

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Move one line to make this sum correct.

What is a marionette? a) miniature statue

made of porcelain, b) puppet worked with
strings, or c) toy soldier? a b c

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How many days are there in a leap year ?

Put these numbers
in the spaces so
that each row adds
up to 100.
16 18 20 24 26

1 3 6 10 15

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How old is Pete? Last year his age was a

square number and next year it will be a cube
number.

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In which city would you find the Statue of

Liberty?
What is the name given to the group of
animals who carry their young in a pouch,
such as the kangaroo?

What sort of
creature is a skua?

What is the highest mountain in the British

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When I put my gerbils 6 to a cage, there were

3 gerbils left over. When I put them 9 to a
cage, there was 1 cage left over. How many
gerbils have I got?

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What part of a whale is known as flukes?

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Can you divide this square into 5, so that the

numbers in each section add up to 20?
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A paediatrician is a doctor who looks after

a) elderly people, b) your feet,
or c) babies and children? a b c

What is the name of the volcano which

destroyed Pompeii, when it erupted in 79AD?
The dessert, peach Melba, was named after the
opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba.
True or false?

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What is the next letter

in this sequence?
O T T F F S S E N __

Which American president was assassinated

in 1865?

Which book by Dick King-Smith was the

inspiration for the film Babe?

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Emperor, macaroni and chinstrap are all types

of what?

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Which two four-letter words will change

SAVE to BANK, changing one letter at a time?

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A zedonk is a cross between a donkey and a

zebra. True or false? T F

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Turn PEN RESTS into something youd be

pleased to get!

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Which is the odd one out?

ORANGE APPLE LEMON GRAPEFRUIT

Which animal name can be added to these

three endings to make a new word each time?
______HER ______ION ______TLE

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Where is your cranium?

a) your head, b) your foot, or c) your chest?

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Which two square numbers when multiplied

equal thirty six?
What does a vulcanologist study?

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What is special about Manx cats?

Put plus or minus signs in the spaces to make

the answer correct.
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4 = 12

How might A CAMEL BUN come to your

rescue?

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How many bricks
are needed to
repair the wall?

Six coins are on the table like this:

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Two brothers were born on the same day, in

the same year, to the same parents, but they
are not twins. How can this be?

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What is the coloured part of your eye called?

Move one coin to

make two rows with
four coins in each.

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Which common flower has the Latin name

Bellis Perennis?
Rearrange the
numbers in the boxes
so that each line adds
up to 15.

How many pairs of legs does a crab have?

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What do these letters stand for?

ROYGBIV

In a thunderstorm, do you hear the thunder

before you see the lightning, or the other way
round?
Which three letter word can be added to all
these beginnings to make a new word each
time?
BL _ _ _ TR _ _ _ EXT _ _ _ FRI _ _ _ PRET _ _ _
What is the name for trees that lose their
leaves in the autumn?

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XI + I = X How can you make this true

without moving any of the lines?

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What do the letters SCUBA stand for, in the

expression scuba diving?

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What links Danny, James and Matilda?

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How many wheels does a unicycle have?

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Which island looks as if its about to be kicked

by the toe of Italy?

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How might THE SOAP CART be a disaster?

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What are the

numbers hidden by
the ink blots? All
the digits, from 0 to
9, have been used.

+
=

9
4

What was the invention which made the

Swedish chemist, Alfred Nobel, famous, and
rich enough to found the Nobel Prize awards?
Use your calculator to work out why 8 x 4417
might be found in a farmyard.
A smiley is a) a picture made up from
keyboard characters, b) a character who
welcomes you to a website, or c) a message
that comes up on your screen to give you
information? a b c

The male is called a cob and the female a pen.

Which bird is this?
Which French painter had a house and garden
at Giverny?

To multiply 142857 by 3, you only have to

move one digit. Which one and where to?

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What can be new, half, gibbous and full?

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Where were the Olympic Games 2000 held?

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How many known planets are there orbiting

the Sun?

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What is the highest score a player can get in a

game of darts using three darts?

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What is deoxyribonucleic acid more usually

known as?

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SHEEP ________ BISCUIT, making two new
words.
(e.g. STAR DUST STORM = STARDUST +
DUSTSTORM)

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_____ _____ ____ ____

How can you make

four equilateral
triangles, with one
match along each
side, using just six
matchsticks?

In which European capital could you see the

statue of the Little Mermaid?

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How might THORN, SHOUT, SEAT and

STEW give you direction?

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What are brimstone, tortoiseshell and spotted

fritillary types of? a) orchids, b) precious
stones, or c) butterflies?

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Put the numbers 2 to 10

in the square, so that
each row, column and
diagonal adds up to 18.
How many bones are
there in a human
skeleton? a) 108, b) 206,
or c)302?

If solar means to do with the Sun, which word

means to do with the Moon?
Which four-letter word can be added to these
four endings to make four new words?
______T ______VE ______CH ______E

If the 12 cog
wheel goes
round
clockwise,
which way
will the 8
cog wheel
turn?

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What is a primate? a) your best friend, b) one

of the order of animals that includes humans,
apes and monkeys, or c) type of stove used by
a b c
prehistoric people?

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How many hours in a week?

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What is the name of the chemical which gives

leaves their green colour?

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Which islands are the most northerly point of

the British Isles?
What natural material can be described as
igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary?
a) rocks, b) metal, or c) wood? a b c

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How might a FAG FIRE reach the top of a

tree?
What is a Coccinella 7-punctata?

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What historic event happened on July 20th

1969?

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When did the first public libraries open in

Britain? a) 1850, b) 1903, or c) 1948?
a

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What is the hardest mineral in the world?

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Where do the Smi people live?

Why might it be fun to swim with HOLD

PINS?

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In 1976 the first supersonic passenger plane,

designed by British and French engineers,
began flying across the Atlantic. What was it
called?
Which well known author used to test
chocolates at the nearby Cadbury factory
when he was a boy? a) Michael Morpurgo,
b) Roald Dahl, or c) Terry Deary?
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Who experimented with a kite in a

thunderstorm to show that lightning was
static electricity in 1752?

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In 1796 Edward Jenner carried out the first

successful vaccination against which disease?
a) measles, b) polio, or c) smallpox? a b c
What is the prime number nearest to 100?
What is the currency of India?
Which bird lays the biggest eggs?
a) emperor penguin, b) bald eagle,
or c) ostrich? a b c

Which Ancient Greek mathematician

showed that, for a right angle triangle, the
square on the hypotenuse is equal to the
sum of the squares on the other two sides?

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Here are the answers.

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Hangar
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Pacific
a) a bone in the leg
III + III = VI III + II = VII
Birds
1 3 6 10 15 21 (+2, +3, +4 etc.)
Melon
17 or 26
New York
Marsupials
Ben Nevis
b) puppet worked with strings
Radioactivity
Rats
Spiders
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Amsterdam
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Bird
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Tail

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c) babies and
children
Vesuvius
True
Daisy

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O T T F F S S E N T (One,

Two, Three, etc.)

Abraham Lincoln
Presents
Apple (not a citrus
fruit)
RAT

Place on
top!

a) your
head
4x9
Volcanoes
No tail
5 pairs of legs (including one
pair of pincers)

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Iris
They are triplets, or
quadruplets, etc.
The Sheep Pig
Penguin
SANE SANK
True
10 + 7 11 + 2 + 8 4 = 12
Ambulance
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Red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet the
colours of the rainbow
Lightning then thunder, so the
other way round.
END
Deciduous
Look at it upside down.
Roald Dahl, they are all
characters mentioned in the
titles of his books.
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= 7 8 3
Dynamite
Geese (35336 upside down)
a) a picture made up from
keyboard characters
Swan
Monet
c) butterflies
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Moon
Sydney, Australia
North, South, East and West
DNA
sheep DOG biscuit
Self contained underwater
breathing apparatus
One
Sicily
Catastrophe
Make a pyramid
Copenhagen

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b) 2206
10 6 2
Lunar
5 4 9
Star
Anti-clockwise
b) one of the order of animals
which includes humans, apes
and monkeys
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Chlorophyll
Shetland Isles
a) rocks
Giraffe
Ladybird
The first Moon walk
a) 1850
Diamond
Lapland (Northern Finland and
Norway)
Benjamin Franklin
Dolphins
Concorde
b) Roald Dahl
c) smallpox
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Rupee
c) ostrich
Pythagoras

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