School Quizzes with Answers
Quiz I
- What does the 'o' stand for in the math's school acronym BODMAS?
- What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
- What is described as 'the mass per unit volume'?
- School English: Which word is the adjective in the sentence 'he wore a smart shirt to dinner today'?
- The Vedas are the oldest scriptures of which religion?
- What name is given to the layer between the Earth's crust and outer core?
- If text messages cost 11p each; how many do you get for £15?
- Who wrote the opera William Tell?
- What is the only prime number that comprises two consecutive prime numbers?
- How many lines are there in a sonnet?
- In French, what is the meaning of the word 'semaine'?
- Which country did Scotland form the Auld Alliance with?
- A cow on overage release between 70 and 120 kg of which polluting chemical compound per year?
- The International Brigades were volunteer military units made up from different countries who fought in which war?
- What name is given to an 'ion' with fewer electrons than protons, giving it a positive charge?
- School history: Name the first husband of Catherine of Aragon?
- Which American time zone is between the Pacific Time Zone and Central Time Zone?
- Name the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere after Nitrogen and Oxygen?
- Women in the UK were given the vote in 1918 - however, over what age did they have to be to vote?
- What name is given to the luminous massive star of low mass that our Sun will become in about five billion years?
- There are three types of tundra, Arctic tundra and Antarctic tundra are two, what is the third type?
- Tritium is an isotope of which chemical element?
Answers:
- Order (BODMAS stands for bracket order division multiplication adding subtraction)
- Gamma
- Density
- Smart (adjective is a describing word)
- Hinduism
- Mantle
- 136 (with 4p left over)
- Gioachino Rossini
- 23
- Week
- 14
- France
- Methane
- The Spanish Civil War
- Cation
- Arthur, Prince of Wales (Henry VIII's elder brother who died aged 16)
- Mountain Time Zone
- Argon
- 30
- Red Giant
- Alpine tundra
- Hydrogen
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